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Now you can tell your friends how you feel by using Orkut's recently launched Vibes. We are happy to announce the return of a feature that was highly requested by long-time Orkut users. Yes, your fans are back and better than ever: It's easy to become somebody's fan, just go to the person's profile and click on the star, it will change colors and you will be added to his/her fans list; Every time someone becomes your fan,... →

Do you know that Orkut friend who you always wanted to show how cool you think he is? Now in Orkut you have 11 different ways to show how you feel about a person. To express your Vibe for someone, access your friend's profile and click "Vibe?" in the left sidebar, under his/her photo. Every time you want to check what they think about you or about your friends, click on the number beside the "Vibe?" link (it will only appear if there is at least one Vibe).... →

I am happy to announce the addition of the ability to scope your searches to a specific country in the AJAX Web Search API. Now, if you have a lot of visitors in Madagascar, you can make sure that the search results displayed on your site are tailored to them. All it takes is a small change to your code. There are three possible ways to implement, depending on how you're using the API: If you use the loader,... →

When using any of the searchers available in the Search API , four results are returned by default. Historically, it has been possible to request a large set of eight results (or ten for filter Custom Search Engines), but that's it. We understand that there are many use cases for this API, and some of them require a finer grain of control over the number of results displayed. For instance, with the JavaScript API, you can use .setResultSetSize(1) or .... →

We enjoy featuring real-world applications that show how versatile the AJAX APIs can be. Below we're highlighting two very different apps and the developers who built them: AroundMe AroundMe is an iPhone application where the AJAX APIs are central to the user experience. Specifically, the app utilizes the Local Search API to enable users to find information about their surroundings. In the videos below, Marco Pifferi (the developer behind AroundMe) gives a demo of his app,... →

One feature of the AJAX Image Search API that you might find useful is the ability to retrieve only the images which are visible on a specific website. For example, you could add a search box that allows people to search through just the images on your own site or you could create a slideshow which shows images from your favorite site. To specify a site, use the setSiteRestriction method on an ImageSearch object. Here is a simple example: http://code.google.... →

We're excited to announce the addition of 6 new languages (Greek, Russian, Serbian, Sanskrit, Amharic, Tigrinya) to the Transliteration API . Using Google Transliteration you can convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note that this is not the same as translation " it's the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other. Transliteration API allows this functionality to be available to all websites,... →

The language APIs keep right on trucking, released recently are a handful of new translation languages, pairs, and keyboard layouts. We've added the ability to use machine translation to or from the following languages: Afrikaans Belarusian Icelandic Irish Macedonian Malay Persian Swahili Welsh Yiddish With the addition of the above the total count for language pair combination comes to a mind boggling 2550 pairs. In addition, we find the above additions exciting because,... →

More and more sites are adding support for MediaRSS to include images, videos and other types of multimedia files. Today, we're announcing that the Google Feed API now includes this metadata in the response. This content is now included in the JSON and XML results returned by the API. For more details on the result format, check out the documentation . Please note that complete MediaRSS content is generally only available in feed entries newer than February 1, 2010. Questions?... →

In partnership with the Google Chrome Frame team, we are making available a library to allow your web application to detect the presence of Google Chrome Frame . We on the Ajax team are excited about the possibilities of this add-on improving JavaScript performance and enabling some of the new features available in HTML5. If you have a web application which makes use of these new features, you can use this library to prompt the user to install Google Chrome Frame,... →

Today at Google I/O, we launched Google Web Elements with one goal in mind - making life easier for developers. Google Web Elements make it incredibly simple to add Google products to your site, app or blog. It's so easy, you'll feel like you're cheating. Inspired by the convenience of embeddable YouTube videos, Google Web Elements allow you to add products like Google Custom Search, Google Docs, and Google Maps to your website with the simplicity of copy and paste.... →

The AJAX Search gadget for Blogger is now available to all users on Blogger.com. This gadget accesses a Custom Search Engine (CSE) that is created automatically for your blog and provides search results inline, with the look and feel of your blog. You can get all this with just a few clicks from the Blogger control panel. One cool feature of the gadget is the 'Linked From Here' feature that searches the pages you've linked to from your blog posts. As you create new posts,... →

I am very pleased to announce version 2 of the AJAX APIs Playground . For those of you not familiar with it, the Playground is an educational application designed to show interactive code samples for some of Google's coolest Javascript APIs. Of the new changes, the most obvious is the sweet new UI, thanks to help from Roman Nurik of the Google Earth team.... →

Last year we launched the Transliteration API as an addition to the AJAX Language API. This gave users the ability to transliterate (the process of phonetically converting words from one script into another) text into several Indic languages using a normal English keyboard. We're happy to announce that we've now added Arabic to the list of supported languages. Now,... →

A much requested feature, the Local Search Control now includes ads when a search is performed. Users will benefit from seeing targeted and relevant sponsored results, and you can benefit by sharing in the revenue of including these results on your site. Ads aren't the only thing that's new - there's also a new (and, we hope you agree, better) UI: This new Local Search Control has been used in a brand new version of the GoogleBar (part of the Maps API). In almost all cases,... →

One of the major advantages of an Ajax style search box is that users can perform their queries and get their results without leaving the page. However, some webmasters prefer that their users go to a separate results page after they enter a search. The Ajax search library supports this "two-page" use case as well, and since this is a question that we see from time to time we've set up a simple demo site .... →

As I mentioned in a previous post , we've taken several measures to help differentiate legitimate API traffic from bad requests. To help us serve you better, I'm pleased to announce a new way for you to identify your request as harmful. Beginning today, please include the &evil=true parameter in your API requests if you're one of the bad guys. How does this work in practice?... →

It is often difficult for Internet users to input text in many non-Latin script-based languages for a variety of reasons. The correct keyboard layout may not be installed on the computer they're using - sometimes such a layout may not be well developed or widely available. This poses a challenging problem for web developers because there is no way they can ensure that their users have access to this very basic input technology. Our Transliteration API can help,... →

Recently, the guys over at Ext JS released ext-core under an MIT license, which was a big win for open source! Today, they released a stable (non-beta) version of this library and we are proud to be part of that announcement by hosting the new version. You can now pull ext-core from Google servers: // directly access it http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3.0.0/ext-core.js // alias the newest 3.0.x version http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ext-core/3.0/ext-core.... →

Over the last several years, you've helped make Google's AJAX APIs incredibly successful. Not surprisingly, however, there are some people who try to take advantage of these free APIs by using them in ways that they were not designed for, abuse which is prohibited by the Terms of Use . Specifically, some servers are making countless requests - requests not made on the behalf of an end-user - in an attempt to scrape data from the APIs.... →