It’s Official: Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live
Today at SMX West, Maile Ohye from Google confirmed that Google is indeed now crawling AJAX pages that use the standard proposed last Fall. The documentation is live on Google Code and you can also take a look at my recent article about how to implement the standard and its pros and cons. Maile mentioned [...]
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Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX May Be Live
In October 2009, Google proposed a new standard for implementing AJAX on web sites that would help search engines extract the content. Now, there’s evidence this proposal is either live or is about to be. Read on for more details on the proposal, how it works, and why it might be past the proposal stage.
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Bing Silverlight Maps Comes Out Of Beta With New “Destination Maps” And Local Events Apps
Microsoft is taking the beta tag off its innovative Bing Maps Silverlight site, which we wrote about previously when it initially launched. According to Microsoft users will be transitioned to the new site and prompted to download Silverlight if they don’t already have it:
First off, if you go to the Bing Maps AJAX site and [...]
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Google Offers A Proposal To Make AJAX Crawlable
It’s one of the most common pieces of seo advice you’ll find: Don’t build your web site with AJAX if you want it to be crawled and indexed by search engines. AJAX-based web sites are essentially a locked and bolted door when a spider comes crawling.
At our SMX East conference today, Google has announced a [...]
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Housekeeping! New Features on Marketing Pilgrim
Now that WordPress makes it a piece of cake to add new plugins, I’ve been busy this weekend.
Here’s what’s new on Marketing Pigrim:
- Ajax comments – for when you make a spelling mistake–or change you mind about dissing me!–you can now edit your comments for up to 5 minutes after you’ve posted them.
- Threaded comments – finger’s crossed this one works. I’ve tried countless times to add threaded comments, but I think I’ve found one that will actually work. No more @commentername–you can just reply directly to each commenter.
- Mobile version – if you access the site using a mobile browser, you’ll find it’s much cleaner and easier to read.
- Tweetmeme button – at the top of each post you’ll see a Tweetmeme button–making it easy for you to retweet each post and see how many times it’s already been retweeted.
That’s all for now. If you see any new quirks as a result, please let me know.
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Google’s “Show More Results” Link Goes Contextual
It seems like Google has changed the way they handle the “show more results from” feature, by removing the simple HTML link to a site command feature and by dynamically opening up several more results, within the same search results page. They are using an AJAX (JavaScript) driven plus sign box that adds an [...]
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Google Launches Easily Embeddable Web Elements at I/O 2009
The only really exciting thing you missed by not attending Google’s I/O 2009 developer event was the chance to get a free Android phone–apparently Google can give them away after all! 
The annual event is not as glamorous as Google’s other conferences, but if you dream in binary, then the chance to mingle with 3,000 other developers and listen to 130+ speakers would have been a delight for you.
For the rest of us, Google did make three announcements today.
Perhaps the most interesting for us non-developer types, Google Web Elements allow you to incorporate Google products–like Maps, News, Friend Connect and YouTube–right onto your own website. They require no programming knowledge; all you need to do is use the customization wizard and Google automatically generates a snippet of text to paste on your page.
It works like this:
And looks like this:
The other two announcements may cause drowsiness…
- Java Language Support in App Engine: Today Google is launching general availability of Java language support in Google App Engine, providing all developers with an end-to-end Java language solution for building AJAX web applications.
- Android Developer Challenge 2: Today Google is announcing the second phase of the Android Developer Challenge, a Google-funded initiative to reward developers for building innovative and useful applications for the Android mobile platform.
