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Last year Google announced it would have released a version of Google in Maori and a few days ago, during the Maori language week, they released it. To visit the Maori version of Google there are two url. http://www.google.co.nz/intl/mi/ will take you to the Google NZ Aotearoa in the Maori language. http://www.google.com/intl/mi/ will take you to the international version of Google, in Maori. Kia Ora!! Technorati Tags: Google,Maori,Aotearoa

Yesterday looking for CodeClimber on Google I found out that Google is listing some posts as SiteLinks. The same happens with all the blogs I tried so far (it seems to work only if the blog is hosted on 2nd level domain): codinghorror hanselman haacked cre8d-design Not sure why it shows the posts he shows (since some are not even in the homepage at the moment), but nice to see this. Technorati Tag: google,search,sitelinks

Google, together with other 1100 users, released a "behind the scene" video showing us how an email sent from gmail reaches its destination. Ok, not really what happens, but nice to see this collaboration. Technorati tags: Google, Gmail, YouTube

Last week the old version of Google Analytics was dismissed and the only available UI is the new version, which is great, much more user friendly, but misses 2 features I used a lot: Today users by hour Users by month I didn't find the user grouped by month report yet, but after a bit of URL hacking I found how to get the hourly report for the current day. The biggest problem is that the date validator in the analytics UI validates the user input based on Google server date, which happens to start 19 hours...

[July 25rd, 2008] UPDATE: Google Māori gone live: www.google.com/intl/mi [July 23rd, 2008] UPDATE: Google Māori to go live on July 24th. Seems like Google is working to create a Maori version of their search engine: Google Looks At Maori Language They already have Klingon, Hacker and Elmer Fudd, why not Maori which is a real language? Technorati tags: Google, Maori

Today Google announced the new version of its statistics package: Analytics. The new UI introduces a new dashboard, new fancy graphs with the possibility to compare trends over a period of time, customizable dashboard and email and PDF reports. Current users will be migrated to the interface during next month. Technorati tags: Google, Google Analytics

I'm registered to Google AdSense and I've the ads block and some AdSense referrals buttons on my Italian blog. Yesterday, looking at my earnings I noticed that I was giving 5$ for the AdSense referral product. I knew that for that product the rule was: When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their first $100 within 180 days of sign-up, you will be credited with $100. So why did I get $5? I thought that it was very difficult for someone that signs up for the first time to reach $100 in...