Wednesday, April 05, 2006
ResearchBuzz: Google's Got a New Related Links Feature:
"Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for this pointer to a new feature from Google: the ability to pull a related links list from Google into your pages along with pointers to relevant news, etc. Check it out: http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/index.html.
The service is free but Google asks that pages which have "over 10,000 hits a day" contact the Google team. Hits? Or page views? If a hit is a page element loading -- an image or whatever -- 10,000 hits isn't that many. Anyway, assuming that you have less than 10,000 hits a day and you agree to Google's terms of service, you can get going.
The process for generating the link code looks a lot like the process for generating AdSense code. Pick a type of format you want (banner, leaderboard, rectangle), link type (searches, news, web pages), and then pick your color palette. Down at the bottom of the page you'll have the code, Javascript which you paste into your Web page. There's an example at the end of this entry if I can get it to work.
This offering reminds me of Yahoo's Y!Q product, which also offers the ability to embed content in Web pages. The difference, as I remember, is that Yahoo required that a JavaScript snippet be put in the head of a Web page. That's why I never played with it on ResearchBuzz; I would have had to put the JavaScript in my page template and I didn't want to do that to just play around with it. I'll have to go back and see if it's changed... "
"Thanks to Google Blogoscoped for this pointer to a new feature from Google: the ability to pull a related links list from Google into your pages along with pointers to relevant news, etc. Check it out: http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/index.html.
The service is free but Google asks that pages which have "over 10,000 hits a day" contact the Google team. Hits? Or page views? If a hit is a page element loading -- an image or whatever -- 10,000 hits isn't that many. Anyway, assuming that you have less than 10,000 hits a day and you agree to Google's terms of service, you can get going.
The process for generating the link code looks a lot like the process for generating AdSense code. Pick a type of format you want (banner, leaderboard, rectangle), link type (searches, news, web pages), and then pick your color palette. Down at the bottom of the page you'll have the code, Javascript which you paste into your Web page. There's an example at the end of this entry if I can get it to work.
This offering reminds me of Yahoo's Y!Q product, which also offers the ability to embed content in Web pages. The difference, as I remember, is that Yahoo required that a JavaScript snippet be put in the head of a Web page. That's why I never played with it on ResearchBuzz; I would have had to put the JavaScript in my page template and I didn't want to do that to just play around with it. I'll have to go back and see if it's changed... "
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