Company providing various Internet-related products and services, such as Google web search, Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, ... They provide APIs for several of their services, allowing users to integrate these into their own websites and web applications.
Questions tagged [google]
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Adding a hostname with 'www' to TXT entry in nameserver makes website unavailable - why?
One way to verify sites when using Googles webmaster tools is to add a TXT entry to the nameserver, using the hostname and adding the provided text.
Accidentally (because I simply didn't know) I added two TXT entries, one with 'www' and one without,…

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Does hosting multiple sites on one server hurt your SEO?
I have a handful of (content unrelated) sites with decent PRs and I'm considering hosting them all on the same server. I've heard that if you do this, internal linking between two seperate domains on that server may be seen as less "valid" by Google…
MarathonStudios
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Trouble with Google Apps Custom Domain SSL
I'm currently inside the 30-day free trial for Google Apps for business (billing set up, so will start non-free trial soon). I'm attempting to set up SSL for a custom domain for a Google App Engine app, but am a bit of a noob at this stuff and the…

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Why is ping to Google servers and Google DNS so low?
I noticed that ping to Google DNS and to google.com from Serbia is about 15ms, but google servers are located in California! http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=173.194.39.110 My dedicated server is located in Germany and our countries are close, but…

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PTR OK, SPF, DKIM passed but email messages are marked as Spam by Google?
# host 1.2.3.4
4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.domain.vn.
# dig +short txt domain.vn
"v=spf1 a mx ptr -all"
# dig +short txt mail.domain.vn
"v=spf1 a -all"
Here's an email header that is marked as Spam:
Delivered-To:…

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Adding an HTTP request header with Squid
I want to permit my users to login to Google apps only for my domain. I found a solution by adding the HTTP header X-GoogApps-Allowed-Domains as described in this Google help page.
I use Squid, but can't figure out how to configure Squid to do this.…

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Searching two sites at once using Google?
How can I limit a Google search to two sites at once?
I can search Serverfault by doing site:serverfault.com windows xp, but I can't seem to figure out how to include another site in my search.
Thanks!

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Google SMTP Connection Timeout
How do I find out why Gmail is seemingly refusing connections from my specific IP range?
I'm getting a "Connection timeout" error when attempting to send email through smtp.gmail.com using the email facilities in Django running on a Linux machine on…

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Does Android version 2.2 locally encrypt Activesync messages?
I am a sysadmin for company X. They are interested in allowing ActiveSync access to devices that support local offline encryption of the downloaded attachments and email data.
Considering how the iPhone encrypts local data, where you need to have a…

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Outsource my email server to Google
I've been looking into setting up my own email server the past couple of weeks and the more I look into it the more I feel that this is an area I do not want to get into. I guess my heart just isn't into email and everything that comes with it. I…

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What is the best way to move site to new domain without losing google page rank
I just bought new domain for my web page.
Is it good to use php redirection to the new domain and what are the exact headers that I must send to google bot to just renew the address and keep the page rank without loosing position in search results…

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Working around Gmail mailing-list "feature."
We're using Google Apps for our domain's e-mail via IMAP. Whenever mail is sent to a mailing list, copies of the original mail are not received in inboxes. According to Google, this is a "feature."
Is there a way to disable this "feature" so that…

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Why does spf fail in DMARC report from Google?
I recently received a DMARC report from Google alerting me of a few SPF failures with mail originating from IP addresses belonging to Amazon SES. A sample record is as follows (I have replaced our domain with example.com.):
…

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How do companies know they've been hacked?
With the news of Google and others getting hacked, I was wondering how companies find out, detect, and/or know they've been hacked in the first place?
Sure, if they find a virus/trojan on user's computers or see a very high access rate to parts of…
Chad
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How often does Google's web spiders crawl the web?
Just a few hours after having made some changes in the HTML of my site, I found that Google had updated its search result against my website. The Internet is so huge, how did the Google crawler do that? Doesn't it use too much bandwidth?

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