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The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google
- johnsource3 10y agoI like the new central resource to keep up to date on marketing direct from Google I just wish Google would get a readability expert on their team. They are using a very thin font with the color of #333 on a #fafafa background and, as per usual, they love their whitespace making the page look silly on my widescreen desktop monitor. I still look forward to going to a single resource instead of the various blogs now.
- awesomerobot 10y ago#333 on #FAFAFA passes every contrast check in existence. I don't mind the thin font, but they render really poorly on some systems, so it's definitely a weird choice. Your widescreen monitor doesn't increase readable line-length, so it's kind of pointless unless they cram some sidebars into there — which just distracts from the main reading experience. Maybe they could have pulled out the images and made those larger with more screen real estate?
- basch 10y agomy comment elsewhere is better under you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12610265 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12610265
- peterkshultz 10y agoFor those who didn't know about the ".google" TLD: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_google_internet_extension/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_goog...
- namecast 10y agoThanks, that was literally my first thought on reading the title and seeing the URL. I imagine this is a trial balloon of some sort; I wonder if http://mail.google http://mail.google is going to be next?
- scentedmeat 10y agohttp://www.google.google http://www.google.google doesn't even work yet
- mikecb 10y agohttps://domains.google https://domains.google is a thing.
- sroussey 10y agoAnd works with Weebly... ;)
- mindslight 10y agoHow gaudy. I hope that the next generation of naming technologies will choose to interoperate with DNS by filing all this recent TLD pollution to an appropriate home under .icann.
- kennymeyers 10y agoIf anyone from Google is reading this, love the idea. I subscribed via the ancient RSS, but would love full articles in the RSS feed (not sure why it's just snippets).
- sonar_un 10y agoI subscribed to the RSS Feed too. I would really like to see full stories as well.
- QuercusMax 10y agoRIP https://reader.google https://reader.google. :(
- rakingleaves 10y agoYeah, they used to have full-text RSS feeds for many of their blogs, but now those have turned into snippet feeds; what a bummer.
- mzehrer 10y agoUse fivefilters: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.google%2Frss%2F&max=3 http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A...
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- FuckOffNeemo 10y agoThe TLD surprised me, I didn't know you could request one. The article I found that covers off on purchasing (leasing?) a TLD ironically used Google as an example. The article is from 2011. "The process itself may be relatively straightforward. ICANN will make applications available (get the May 2011 draft of the Applicant Guidebook) from January 12, 2012 through April 12, 2012, giving companies time to develop a marketing plan and come up with justification to pay the $185,000 application fee and, if approved, the annual $25,000 fee. " Source: http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-bacon.html http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-ba...
- scrollaway 10y agoI'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog http://google.blog yet. https://get.blog/ https://get.blog/
- tomschlick 10y agoI think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIf Google buys it, they'll probably just buy it to squat it, rather than use it. They're probably butthurt they lost out on the .blog gTLD. Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And Google cost us the option of having a .dev gTLD, that's for Google's use only. "Let's not forget, the Californian goliath had tried to bag .blog, which it intended to pair with its Blogger service so that the only way to get a .blog domain would be to use Blogger." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtld_domain_icann/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtl...
- markdown 10y ago> Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.
- nhebb 10y agoAnd thus knocking SEO firms targeting the keyword "keyword" off the top of the results. Well played, Google, you humorous bastards.
- dotBen 10y agoA key development here is the move away from Blogger to what looks like a custom CMS. I wonder if we'll see Blogger deprecated or even shuttered in due course. Perhaps the only real indicator that Blogger was still in development was that Google was dog-fooding it for their own comms - and this just ended.
- basch 10y agoi wish information density was an option on all these pinterestesque sites. http://techmeme.com/river http://techmeme.com/river http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com http://reddit.com http://reddit.com http://digg.com http://digg.com one of these things is not like the other.
- virtuallynathan 10y agoOddly (or perhaps not), this does not include news from Google Cloud.
- c3RlcGhlbnI_ 10y agoI'm impressed that they actually seem to have aggregated most of their blogs into this(except for a few like the google cloud blog that someone else here noted). I'm not used to google transitioning fully to a new service at launch. Usually the new and old versions of services are left to coexist as the new version works on reaching feature parity.
- Mao_Zedang 10y agoI really loath gTLD, I understand because of domain squatting we need to increase the supply but this is just gross. A fairer system would have domains registration costs vary by length (shorter is more expensive)
- rocky1138 10y agoThis appears unsubstantiated. Why, exactly, do you hate gTLD?
- Mao_Zedang 10y agoBecause it grates against the implied purpose of the inclusiveness of the internet. Every company registering these new TLD's keep all the good ones for themselves or in googles case they just keep the whole thing. The means for the majority of internet users to access this kind of land rush just dont exist.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoAnd Google's either kept or tried keeping like 20 gTLDs to themselves. Look for Charleston Road Registry, a Google shell corp, on this list: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-contracting/ccer http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-c... cal, dev, drive, play, and prod are all ones I think the open Internet would've liked a chance at.
- jsmthrowaway 10y agoI don't think shell corporation means what you think it does, given that a gTLD is a pretty significant asset.
- ComodoHacker 10y agoHere's a plan: 1. Make up a word that doesn't exist yet (verify with Google). 2. Start a company with that name. 3. Grow it big enough. 4. Claim your TLD. 5. PROFIT!!!!!
- franze 10y agoPage Speed Insights for https://blog.google/topics/inside-google/introducing-the-keyword-our-new-official-blog/ https://blog.google/topics/inside-google/introducing-the-key... Mobile: red 58/100 Desktop: red 64/100 see: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.google%2Ftopics%2Finside-google%2Fintroducing-the-keyword-our-new-official-blog%2F https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=... There are two (and prop. more) different Googles: The ones that care, and the ones that make marketing!
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- _Codemonkeyism 10y agoThe Intercept. The Macro. The Keyword.
- tempodox 10y agoThe Syntax. The Grammar. The Exception. ...