Tuesday, 3 October 2006

Yes, you can have a pony



It's crazy over here -- in the last few months, we've had thousands of gadgets submitted for the Google Personalized Homepage. If you've used it, you've seen them -- those useful little units you can add, remove, and move around on your page. We have old-school games, clocks, calendars, and horoscopes. We've got a VAT calculator. We've got a pony.

We've extended these gadgets to work on Google Desktop and Google Pages, but it occurred to us that these would be slick on other people's web pages, too.

Today we're opening up our gadget inventory for your viewing and cloning pleasure. In other words, now you can copy and paste some simple HTML to add the Google Gadgets you like to your own webpage. Check out our directory of Google Gadgets for your webpage to see all the options. And as always, if you can't find one like the one you had in mind, you can always write a gadget yourself.

Create web apps on top of Google search



We just launched a new version of the Google AJAX Search API, which is designed to make it easier for webmasters and developers to do two things:
  • Add a search box to your site that displays Google Web, Video, News, Maps, and Blog Search results without taking users to a separate page.
Read more about this release on the Google AJAX Search API Blog.

Discount with Checkout



Here's another way it pays to use Google Checkout: there's a $10 bonus on purchases of $30 or more at participating stores.