Company providing various Internet-related products and services, such as Google web search, Gmail, Google Calendar, YouTube, ... They provide APIs for several of their services, allowing users to integrate these into their own websites and web applications.
Questions tagged [google]
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Does Google Domains support CNAME-like functionality at the zone apex?
This functionality is required for properly directing a root domain to Heroku:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#cname-functionality-at-the-apex
Some registrars, like DNSimple, support it. Is it supported by the new Google…

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How Can I Encourage Google to Read New robots.txt File?
I just updated my robots.txt file on a new site; Google Webmaster Tools reports it read my robots.txt 10 minutes before my last update.
Is there any way I can encourage Google to re-read my robots.txt as soon as possible?
UPDATE: Under Site…

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How did Google acquire 8.8.8.8?
The IP addressed 8.8.8.8 (in addition to 8.8.4.4) is now used for Google's DNS server. How did they obtain this IP?
Specifically, what has to happen for an IP to be routed to a different location.

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How does Google do DNS Geo Location request routing?
I'm wondering who is doing DNS geo location for google.com? By request geo location I mean detecting the location of the user, calculating the nearest server farm to his location, and then routing the request to selected location.
We are evaluating…

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NO_PUBKEY error in google cloud debian packages update
I have a couple of Google Clouds compute instances (US, Germany, Australia)
While doing
apt-get update
today I get:
> Get:10 http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt
> google-cloud-packages-archive-keyring-stretch InRelease [3,876 B]
> Err:6…

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How to determine if google public stun server is alive or usable?
I have seen a lot of of WebRTC client libraries using public STUN server like below:
"stun.l.google.com:19302",
"stun1.l.google.com:19302",
"stun2.l.google.com:19302", …

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Google SPDY - Has anyone used it on Apache?
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with Google SPDY on Apache? http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/
I run a couple of web servers and am interested to know if there have been any issues with the mod_spdy Apache module and if anyone has…

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Open Source alternative to "Google Appliance" for intranet search?
Are there any alternative open source solutions (with a web console)?

Martin K.
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Different nginx rules based on referrer
I'm using WordPress with WP Super Cache. I want visitors who come from Google (That inlcudes all country specific referrers like google.co.in, google.co.uk and etc.) to see uncached contents.
There are my nginx rules which are not working the way I…
juana
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When Google DNS (or Open DNS) is a good fit
What situations are you thinking are good candidates for a service like this?
I have been concerned about our ISP's DNS - they are redirecting to advertising pages, and showing other signs of questionable integrity. I was considering OpenDNS - but…

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Why is Google rejecting mails forwarded from my Postfix server?
I've set up Postfix and created an alias that maps to a gmail account. When I mail from one of my own (google mail) accounts, it goes through, but if someone from the outside mails me, Google won't accept the mail from my server. The logs something…

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Location of Google servers
I was wondering where the Google servers reside and how their DNS lookup work. I'm located in Germany right now. If I'm calling google.de (German Google page) is the server located in Germany for all the searches or are they splitted throughout the…

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What is the default password in Google Developers Console?
[How to change password in Google Developers Console?]
I know this should be a very stupid question related Google Developers Console, but I just wasted three hours in it and no luck in google search results.
This is the first time I enable…

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Google Dynamic DNS Wildcard Subdomains
I can't get Google's Dynamic DNS API to work for a wildcard domain.
I can get defined subdomains to update their IP just fine but I always get nohost when i attempt to update the wildcard's IP.
This page…

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How do large companies backup their data?
How do companies who handle large amounts of data, for example Google or Facebook, backup everything?
According to this Google platform article on Wikipedia, Google has an estimated 450,000+ servers each with a 80+ GB hard disk. That's a lot of…

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