To provide website visitors with more choice about how their data is collected by Google Analytics, we have developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer (versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher).

You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax. After all, it holds a commanding 65 percent market share and is still the only company whose name is synonymous with the verb search. But just as Google isn’t ready to rest on its laurels, its competitors aren’t ready to concede defeat. For years, the Silicon Valley monolith has used its mysterious, seemingly omniscient algorithm to, as its mission statement puts it, “organize the world’s information.”

Google CEO says privacy doesn't matter. Google blacklists CNet for violating CEO's privacy.

At the end of July I declared my intention to quit the iPhone and AT&T, port my mobile phone number to Google Voice and use any mobile device that I pleased (or lots of them at once) in the future. Like others, I will no longer blindly follow all things Apple. Today I’m pleased to report a status update on those efforts: complete. I am no longer a member of the Cult of iPhone.

Sync In A Blink is a simple and easy to use application designed to synchronize your Google™ Gmail™ Contacts with the contacts on your Apple® iPhone™. All you need to get started is your Gmail account. No additional online services are required and none of your data is stored outside of your iPhone and Gmail account.

It may seem as unlikely as a publicly edited encyclopedia, but the internet needs publicly controlled search

On the role of Android beyond mobile phones, and the way print should take advantages of e-readers, iphones, etc with so called 'appgazines'.

Door deze richtlijnen te volgen, helpt u Google om uw site te vinden, te indexeren en te rangschikken.

Google Talk can help you with quick translations, or even translate your chats in real-time! All you need to do is chat with one of our Translation Bots. The bots are named using two-letter language abbreviations formatted as '[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com,' and all available combinations are listed in the table below.

A googol of Googlers published a paper at VLDB 2008, "Google's Deep-Web Crawl" (PDF), that describes how Google pokes and prods at web forms to see if it can find things to submit in the form that yield interesting data from the underlying database.

That least-understood principle from my original Web 2.0 manifesto, "Data is the Intel Inside," is finally coming out of the closet. A post on the Google Operating System Blog entitled Google is Really About Large Amounts of Data notes that in an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in October, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience, "confessed that having access to large amounts of data is in many instances more important than creating great algorithms."

e Amerikaanse consumentenorganisatie Consumer Watchdog wil dat internetters Google kunnen verbieden gegevens over hun zoekgedrag te bewaren.

Normally Sampsonia Way is a fairly unassuming street, but when Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlet, two art school grads from Carnegie Mellon University, found out that the Google Maps Street Team was coming to town, they decided to make things more interesting.

Google released a browser security handbook for Web developers that details the key security features of the main Web browsers. Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, the document provides a comprehensive comparison of security features of the commonly used browsers; IE (version 6 and 7), Firefox (version 2 and 3), Safari, Opera, Chrome and the lesser known Android embedded browser.

If you often translate bits and pieces using Google Translator, here’s one way to quickly access it:

Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current.

How do I run Gears on my 64-bit system? There are two ways to do so.

As per the time of writing, Google Gears is not available for 64 bit Linux. As it is open sourced, some smart people at it’s user group has been able to create an unofficial patch to fix the problem and released the binary for it.

People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer. I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.

Chrome incorporates many of the sandboxing techniques developed by GreenBorder to protect its users. It is no longer possible for the modules that parse HTML and run Javascript to compromise the entire system. Google Chrome’s design is also reminiscent of the OP Browser (available here), which locks down browser components to prevent system-wide exploitation.

John Gruber highlights the important differences between Google's Chrome browser and Safari/Firefox.

Comic introducing Google's new browser.

There’s no doubt about it, I’m in love with the cloud. Some people might not share my fascination with storage-in-the-cloud and compute-in-the-cloud models but I can’t wait to have the same computing experience regardless of the computer or device I’m using to connect to the Internet. I’ve taken it upon myself to change my workflow and digital lifestyle to get as much of my data online and make use of web-based tools until that utopian time comes. Here’s how I do it and you can do the same.

A directory with builds of Google Gears for 64bit Linux.

Google is clearly favoring Knol content over content from older, more highly linked sites on the Web. I won't bother with the question of whether Google is doing this on purpose or whether this is some innocent mistake. The important question is "What are

Howto migrate your e-mail to Google Apps.

PPA for easy installation of Google Gadgets on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for.

We are excited to announce that we are opening up the Google Visualization API beyond Google Spreadsheets and adding more capabilities for developers. Earlier at the Google I/O developer conference, we launched several new features of the Google Visualiza

I recently converted from using Bloglines to Google Reader, and one of the problems that I was running into was that my starred item list was growing far too large. I needed to find a way to archive the articles to my delicious account. This link extracto

With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.

Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them.

Google's repository of beta software. There's also a repository with stable software versions!

"The OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension imports documents from Google Docs and Spreadsheets to OpenOffice.org and exports from OO.org to GDocs so you can work with your docs both online and off as you see fit."

Google Sky is the major new feature in the just released Google Earth 4.2. The proper way to install new applications on Ubuntu is using the package manager. However, Google does not provide a .deb package, so we will have to build one ourselves. Fortunat

A greasemonkey script that enables you to post from Google Reader to del.icio.us

Inbox Zero is a fantastic talk by Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website. Merlin talks about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume

Cookies, IP addresses, logs -- all of these are important things to understand in the context of online privacy. We try to explain them in clear and simple language in our privacy policy and FAQ. But they're not always easy for non-techies to understand.

WP-GoogleStats is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display when and how often Googlebot crawls your pages.

AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System is a WordPress Plugin, developed from Atanas Yanev and Harley Quine.

Google Earth has three new layers from NASA (you can find them in the Featured Content folder): astronaut photos of the Earth, satellite imagery for geographic phenomena like the tsunami from 2004 that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean and Eart

today we've got our top 10 list of unauthorized and unofficial but hella-useful apps that make Gmail that much better.

Google is better than Limewire for downloading Music mp3s dl

Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer continues to mislead the public about why Google keeps detailed logs on its customers searches and internet activity.

However, there are two Gmail search tricks that aren't well-known (one isn't even documented) that, combined with the search operators, turn Gmail searches into something fierce: parentheses and curly brackets.

Documentation of a switch to Google Apps for Your Domain.

A howto for Google Desktop on Ubuntu. You can also use Google's own repository instead of downloading the deb.

What makes Lightning shine is how well it works with Google Calendar, thanks to the Provider for Google Calendar add-on that you install into Thunderbird right next to Lightning. You can add an event in Thunderbird, and view it from your phone or any web

Links the Lightning Calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird to Google Calendar, enabling editing of your web calendar from your desktop.

Case study Unive on custom landing pages, performed by Checkit.nl

Google's Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.

Ars Technica delves into Google & net neutrality

The blogosphere is going full tilt on a privacy report that says that Google is worst in its approach to privacy.

"It's a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google of conducting a smear campaign again

The implications of Google Maps' Street View are interesting. It's probably all legal, but it can be considered an invasion of privacy by a recognizable person. (One step further: imagine Google Earth offering more detailed zoom levels...)

Welkom op de 6de online marketing blogkermis! Met enige trots presenteer ik jullie deze volle kermis met maar liefst 21 interessante artikelen. Artikelen over Google Adsense, mediaplanning, verschillende markten, Tv-reclame, Google Analytics en nog veel m

"To save you the time, I've compiled the best Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into one handy Firefox extension, called Better Gmail."

"Javascript hackers have come up with some great Greasemonkey user scripts that make GCal easier to use, so I've compiled a few of my favorites into a single Firefox extension."

Google Analytics has tons of features that could fill a series of articles, but today I'll just point out a few of the useful ones that can help you improve your web site and find out more about your visitors.

In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines or social networking sites' memb

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, saved passwords. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines/sessions.

This plugin allows you to easily view your Google Analytics and Feedburner reports in your WordPress administration area. It adds a top-level Reports tab and when you click on it, you’ll get a quick 7 day overview of what’s going on with your site.

This greasemonkey script shows full size images in a popup on Google Image search results pages.

Gapminder turns boring statistics into something new and interesting, using visualizations and animateions. The Gapminder Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics.

"The idea that we could better understand ourselves by looking at how we employ technology was and remains the driving force of my work as a journalist."

"If you use Picasa and Google Earth you can easily add the geotagging information to all of your pictures."

An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.