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Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by awesomerobot »

johnsource3 wrote: post #2

I 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.

#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?

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by scrollaway »

FuckOffNeemo wrote: post #10

The 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 mar…

I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog yet.

https://get.blog/

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by tomschlick »

scrollaway wrote: post #12
FuckOffNeemo wrote: post #10

The 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 mar…

I'm slightly disappointed they haven't set up http://google.blog yet. https://get.blog/

I think you can signup but can't actually get them yet.

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by mikecb »

namecast wrote: post #4
peterkshultz wrote: post #3

For those who didn't know about the ".google" TLD: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_goog...

Thanks, 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 is going to be next?

https://domains.google is a thing.

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by dotBen »

A 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.

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by c3RlcGhlbnI_ »

I'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.

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by basch »

dotBen wrote: post #16

A 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.

i wish information density was an option on all these pinterestesque sites.

http://techmeme.com/river http://hckrnews.com http://reddit.com

http://digg.com

one of these things is not like the other.

Re: The Keyword – New central source for news and stories about Google

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Post by basch »

johnsource3 wrote: post #2

I 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.

my comment elsewhere is better under you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12610265
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