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  • Getting the keyword as a parameter from Adwords using ValueTrack

    - by Stephen Ostermiller
    I set up an AdWords campaign for website following the instructions for Google AdWords ValueTrack. One of the things that it is supposed to be able to do is pass the keyword as a URL parameter using the code {keyword} in the URL. I set it up for integration with Google Analytics such the landing URLs would look like: http://example.com/landing.html?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=%7Bkeyword%7D&utm_content=my_content&utm_campaign=my_page where {keyword} is in the utm_term parameter. Hower, this keyword substitution isn't happening. Why?

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  • How do I change the Google Chrome offline icon?

    - by user1105047
    I am using some offline apps for google chrome and because of this an application indicator pops un in the gnome panel. My problem is that this indicator uses the google chrome default system tray icon and I think it looks ugly with my current theme so I would basically like to change the icon. I can't find the icons that google chrome is using for this purpose but I have no problem finding the other icons used by google chrome and changing them, like the 24x24 or 22x22 icons that you see in the gnome application menu (which by default looks like the application indicator for google chrome). It doens't seem like Google Chrome is taking the icon from e.g /usr/share/icons/ and I can't change the icon by changing the icon theme in like gconf-editor Is there anyway to see the preferences (like you can do with launchers) of the application indicators in the gnome-panel and then locate the indicator icon or change it in another way?

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  • SEO issue - External links rel="nofollow" or NOT!

    - by Mary Melody
    Previously I created a website for promo codes and coupons. That have hundreds of external links to the Retailer's websites and I used rel="nofollow" tag. But my site SEO rank was very very... bad especially on Google. So then I removed the rel="nofollow" tag, but no improvement. The only difference between this site and my other sites is "External links". My other sites have good ranking on Google. Now I'm creating a site for reviews. So this is also similar situation for me. I just want to know about how does SEO react with external links? and then what possibly happened in my case?

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  • Is it possible to track an outsourced adwords campaign?

    - by Addsy
    We have a site that is paying a 3rd party to run adwords campaigns on our behalf. They do this using their own Adwords account and so we are unable to link it to our Google Analytics account. We do have our own Adwords account for the site which is linked but the majority of campaigns are being run by this 3rd party. At the moment, in our Adwords reports (ie the Adwords section within Google Analytics) we are seeing that for the majority of visits the campaign and keyword data is not set. I am assuming that this is because even though the visit is being recognised as coming from an Adwords account, because it is not the Adwords account linked to our Analytics account, we don't get sent the campaign and keyword information. Is this correct and if so is there a way that we can start tracking this information so that we can see for ourselves how the campaigns are performing? Many thanks

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  • 404 code/header for search engines, on removed user content?

    - by mowgli
    I just got an email, from a former user on my website He was complaining that Google still shows the contact page he created on my site, even though he deleted it a month ago This is the first time in many years anyone requests this I told him, that it's almost entirely up to Google what content it wants to keep/show and for how long. If it's deleted on the site, I can't do much, other than request a re-visit from the googlebot The user-page already now says something like "Not found. The user has removed the content" TL;DR: But the question is: Should I generally add a 404 header (or other) for dynamic user content that has been removed from the site? Or could this hurt the site (SEO)?

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  • Where to get ads for my website ?

    - by Divyanshu Negi
    I am the developer of the website named viewloud Now as my website is getting around 100 visitors per day so i was thinking that i should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. Google adsence . Is it a good choice ? Will google adsence allow me to open a account there with such little traffic on my website. ? Please help from last two months i have done a very hard work to bring such tarffic :p i know it is very less but i am still working on it .. so please help me guys. Thank you Divyanshu

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  • Getting web results URLs in millions [closed]

    - by tereško
    I looked at all sites of SO and couldn't find any suitable to ask this question but posting here as nearest match to scenario After 1 months research I basically give up on getting all URL's from a search results programmatically, I looked at Google Search API to find a way to get millions of search results "URL's" to be specific to a text file or something relative but no success, but I am 100% there must be a way or trick of doing it. Real Question : Is there anyway programmatically or manually I can get 1000+ search results (URLs using search query e.g. "Apple" returns million of results on google and I want as much as possible URLs of them results in a text file)

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  • How to delete Analytics property from list in Webmaster Tools?

    - by toxalot
    When I look at the Google Analytics Property page in Webmaster Tools (where you associate a Google Analytics web property with a Webmaster Tools site), I see a list of a bunch of properties with weird names. They are test properties from when we were trying things out years ago. I can't view them or change their name in Analytics because they don't exist there. All their profiles were deleted years ago. Is there a way to remove these from the list in Webmaster Tools? Or, alternatively, a way to view them again in Analytics so I can give them a better name, at least. I know this doesn't matter in the big scheme of things, but I hate clutter.

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  • How do I make the home page of the website to come up in the rankings than the internal pages? [closed]

    - by Shahab
    Possible Duplicate: What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google? Suppose I have a website, e.g. www.example.com that comes at number 6 on the Google search rankings. But the internal pages of the website i.e. www.example.com/index.php?a=1&b=2 or www.example.com/index.php comes at number 2 of the rankings. How would I make my prime domain name www.example.com to come at the top of the list ? Any guidance would be appreciated.

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  • Why won't Google Chrome install on my Windows 7?

    - by quakkels
    I can tell something is wrong with my computer. A little history: Google Chrome was not running correctly. When i was using facebook, any link on face that ran an ajax javascript function would not work. No error was being thrown, it just wasn't working. I uninstalled Chrome and reinstalled it. On re-install, a toolbar automatically installed with Chrome. BitTorrentBar. I did not install BitTorrentBar, it installed on it's own. Bad. When BitTorrentBar was active, then ajax functions on facebook worked. When I deactivated or uninstalled BittorrentBar from Chrome extensions, then ajax stopped working. I ran scanned the computer with Avast (free version) and SpyBot Search and Destroy (also free). They found nothing wrong. I uninstalled Chrome using Control Panel and then I went through my file system deleting anything that had "google", "BitTorrent", "chrome", or "conduit". Conduit seems to distribute BitTorrentBar. After doing all that, I tried to reinstall Chrome. I got this error: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at ClickOnceBootStrap.ClickOnceEntry.Main() This error interupts the Chrome install every time! computer scans don't show anything wrong. So then, I thought this might be a .net framework error. Perhaps I deleted something I wasn't supposed to. So I reinstalled .NET Framework 4 and checked the repair option. I also ran Windows Updates. When I tried to download Chrome, again I got the same error as listed above. What should I do?

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  • Google Chrome doesn't respond user actions correctly

    - by Carlos A. Junior
    Recently I've changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 (Cinnamon, 64 bits) from Mint 13 (KDE, 64 bits) and one same bug still appears on new installation. The Google Chrome it seems that don't refresh (repaint) page based on my interactions. Example: When i'm try comment an Youtube vídeo, when i click on textarea, o cursor don't appear inside of textarea, BUT, when/if i change to another tab and return the cursor appears...OK... If i start write some text...according i'm typing the chars don't appers...again if i change to another tab and return the typed text appears on textarea. Other cases that this bug appears: Modal boxes link...don't show the modal; Forms inside modal boxes don't show typed chars; The common Discus comment plugin don't work when focused; I don't have any idea of reason of this bug. (video driver, window manager, Chrome bug ?, i don't know) Any idea to solve this ? Additional informations: Google Chrome 22.0.1229.79 (Official Build 158531) OS Linux WebKit 537.4 (@129177) JavaScript V8 3.12.19.11 Flash 11.3.31.331 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.79 Safari/537.4 Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end Executable Path /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome Profile Path /home/carlos/.config/google-chrome/Default Kernel version: 3.2.0-31-generic-pae Ubuntu 12.04 Best regards.

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  • Sync Gmail, Google Contacts, Google Calendar with Microsoft Exchange

    - by Steve Dolan
    At my work we only use Microsoft Exchange. As I hate Outlook and much prefer Google's services, I'd like to be able to sync my email, calendar, and contacts to a Gmail account. It looks like Google shut down their Google Sync service for Gmail accounts earlier this year: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936. They are recommending IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV. I'm having trouble even setting up IMAP to work with Exchange. Is this the best way to go or is there a better solution?

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  • Google Apps: MX records for zonefile

    - by 23tux
    Hi everybody, I have a question about using Google Apps for handling emails. I don't want to set up a whole entire mail system on my server, so I decided to use Google Apps. The ownership of my domain is approved, and now I'm trying to change the MX records in the zone file of my domain. But I think I'm doing wrong, it doesn't work. I want to use mail.mydomain.com as a adress to the mail server for POP, SMTP and IMAP. My zone file looks like this: $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns1.first-ns.de. postmaster.robot.first-ns.de. ( 2011011700 ; serial 14400 ; refresh 1800 ; retry 604800 ; expire 86400 ) ; minimum @ IN NS robotns3.second-ns.com. @ IN NS robotns2.second-ns.de. @ IN NS ns1.first-ns.de. @ IN A 111.111.111.111 localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 www IN A 111.111.111.111 ftp IN CNAME www loopback IN CNAME localhost mail IN CNAME @ relay IN CNAME www @ IN MX 10 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. @ IN MX 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. @ IN MX 10 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. @ IN MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. @ IN MX 10 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. I hope someone can figure out, what's wrong with this configuration. When I start a ping on mail.mydomain.org I get an answer from 111.111.111.111 and not from the google server ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. thx, tux

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  • Google Apps Domain Level Shared Contacts?

    - by dkirk
    My firm just switched to Google Apps Premiere addition 2 weeks ago and aside from the way Google handles shared contacts, things are going quite well. Previously, on our Exchange server we had numerous shared contact lists set up in the shared folders. We had a separate list for vendors, sales agents, etc.. Is there not a way to set up lists or groups such as this on the domain level in Google Apps? I have found a ton of forums with users asking the same question but no good answers unless you purchase some third party app in the marketplace. I have toyed around with the "google-shared-contacts-client" here: http://code.google.com/p/google-shared-contacts-client/ and this almost does it but it falls short when trying to group contacts on the domain level or when trying to search for a contact by company name. Are either of these things possible? I am now looking to create a Google Doc spreadsheet to share with the domain just to have a separated defined list of contacts that is search-able by various fields... Anyone who could shed some light on domain level contact sharing relating to the points above, I would be most grateful...

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  • Google Sites (via Apps) setup questions

    - by Dave
    I thought that it would be a piece of cake to set up a Google site via Google Apps, but perhaps my previous (limited) experience with web development has given me unrealistic expectations. I have actually had a really tough time finding help with the exact question that I have, which is: How do I change the home page contents??? You see, I'm used to having hosting with someone like GoDaddy, where I can just ftp in and drop my HTML files in the www folder. From research I have found that this is simply not possible with any flavor of Google Sites. That's fine, I can live with it. So let's say I have www.mydomain.com. When I hit that URL, it redirects me to a very long URL (unfortunately) like https://sites.google.com/a/mydomain.com/sites/system/app/pages/meta/domainWelcome, which just says: Google Apps Welcome to mydomain.com If you are the domain administrator get started creating your home page with Google Sites Great! I want to do that. So I click on the "If you are the..." link and end up at a screen where I can choose a template, a name, and some visibility options. If I click on My Sites, there isn't a "default" site, i.e. the one that www.mydomain.com displays. I figured that maybe I just have to create a site first, so I went ahead and did that. My first test was to create a site that was publicly accessible. I thought that maybe if I did that, the Google would decide that this must be my home page since it's the only one. But it doesn't, and I still get the "Welcome to" page. Under "More Actions", I didn't see anything interesting except for "Manage site". I went in there and had a peek around, and didn't see anything about using this as the default home page. Am I looking for something that just doesn't exist? I can't believe there isn't a way to modify the "domain welcome to" page...

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  • How do I get a permanent long term authentication token for google apps application?

    - by Ali
    Hi guys I'm working on my google apps application - currently I've build the authentication upon the example available at google namely this url The problem is that the session seems to time out and that everytime I am logged into my google apps account and go to my application I need to authenticate again and go through the screen where google asks me if I should allow the application to access the services like GMAIL, Docs etc listed in the manifest xml file. I don't think I'm doing it right as other applications allow instant access. Any ideas

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  • How to implement Google Maps new version of API v2

    - by bapatla
    Hi every one I came to know that google maps has deprecated its previous version API v1 and introduced a new version of google maps API v2. I tried out one example by following some links in google any how i am pretty sure that i got the api key correctly by providing the exact hash key code and managed to get the correct api key. Now i managed to write some code as well but when i tried to execute the code i am getting the errors please help me to solve this here is my code and i even tried the sample codes provided by google play services an i got the same problem this is the sample that i have done by referring some links in google main activity package com.example.apv; import com.google.android.gms.maps.CameraUpdateFactory; import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap; import com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment; import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.BitmapDescriptorFactory; import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.LatLng; import com.google.android.gms.maps.model.MarkerOptions; import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.FragmentManager; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager(); MapFragment mapFragment = (MapFragment) fragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.map); GoogleMap googleMap = mapFragment.getMap(); LatLng sfLatLng = new LatLng(37.7750, -122.4183); googleMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL); googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions() .position(sfLatLng) .title("San Francisco") .snippet("Population: 776733") .icon(BitmapDescriptorFactory.defaultMarker( BitmapDescriptorFactory.HUE_AZURE))); googleMap.getUiSettings().setCompassEnabled(true); googleMap.getUiSettings().setZoomControlsEnabled(true); googleMap.animateCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(sfLatLng, 10)); } } main.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/map" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" class="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"/> and finally my manifest file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.apv" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="17"/> <permission android:name="com.codebybrian.mapsample.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE" android:protectionLevel="signature"/> <!--Required permissions--> permission oid:name="com.codebybrian.mapsample.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"/> <!--Used by the API to download map tiles from Google Maps servers: --> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/> <!--Allows the API to access Google web-based services: --> <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> <!--Optional permissions--> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/> <!--Version 2 of the Google Maps Android API requires OpenGL ES version 2 --> <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00020000" android:required="true"/> application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"> <activity android:name=".MyMapActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/> </intent-filter> </activity> <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY" android:value="AZzaSSsBmhi4dXoKSylGGmjkQ5Jev9UdAJBjk"/> </application> </manifest> i run my application in emulator of version 4.2 and api level of 17 i got following error 12-17 10:06:52.590: E/Trace(826): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2) 12-17 10:06:52.590: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 12-17 10:06:52.590: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 12-17 10:06:52.590: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 12-17 10:06:52.680: I/ActivityThread(826): Pub com.google.android.gms.plus;com.google.android.gms.plus.action: com.google.android.gms.plus.provider.PlusProvider 12-17 10:06:52.740: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 12-17 10:06:52.740: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 12-17 10:06:52.760: W/Trace(826): Unexpected value from nativeGetEnabledTags: 0 later i came to know that these version cant execute in emulator so i tried executing it with two devices one is Sony xperia u of android version 2.3.7 and Samsung galaxy tab of android version 4.1.1 and these are my outputs 12-17 14:37:02.468: D/AndroidRuntime(7636): Shutting down VM 12-17 14:37:02.468: W/dalvikvm(7636): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41f672a0) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): FATAL EXCEPTION: main 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.apv/com.example.apv.MyMapActivity}: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.apv.MyMapActivity 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2021) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2122) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:140) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1228) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4895) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller .run(ZygoteInit.java:994) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:761) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.apv.MyMapActivity 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:61) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1068) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2012) 12-17 14:37:02.476: E/AndroidRuntime(7636): ... 11 more could any one please suggest me to how to get this done and give me some links of new version API v2 tutorials of google maps and some examples links please help me

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  • Can a Google Search Appliance / Mini output JSON/JSONP?

    - by Riley
    Using Google Mini for a website that needs output from the Google Mini in a JSON/JSONP format for front-end querying purposes. Google Mini does publish an XML feed that could potentially be used by a middle process to convert to JSON/JSONP. Can Google Search Appliance / Mini output to JSON/JSONP using a plug-in, modification to an XSLT template, or other unknown method?

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  • Problem about Chrome Extension

    - by Gnu
    Hi! I try to write an extension and i saw the very restricted policy security. I should create an extension that allows me to listen and download podcast from web. It is possible? I use Chrome OS with VMWare, this OS has additional Api than Google Chrome Browser? Thanks

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  • Google Docs : encore plus de fonctionnalités de partage et de travail collaboratif, l'effet de la no

    Mise à jour du 18/06/10 Google Docs : encore plus de fonctionnalités de partage Et de travail collaboratif, l'effet de la nouvelle concurrence de Microsoft ? Tiens, tiens... A peine trois jours après la sortie officielle de Microsoft Office 2010 (lire par ailleurs notre dossier sur les nouveautés de Microsoft Office 2010), soit une petite semaine après l'arrivée de sa version gratuite en ligne (

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  • Small Business Software: OpenOffice.org vs. Google Docs

    <b>Small Business Computing:</b> "Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don't need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for Office replacements are OpenOffice.org and Google Docs, but which one is right for your business?"

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  • Compute number of occurrences in a column of a spreadsheet

    - by wnstnsmth
    I have a Google Drive spreadsheet with a single column that holds string values (Twitter screen names) such as "user1", "user1", "UserX", and I would like to count those values so that I can easily craft a bar chart out of it. So the result should be value occurrence ----------------------- user1 2 UserX 1 ... .... Please note, I only want to look for whole words, and not part words. EG, the words 'on' and 'one' appears in the word 'money' - I would not count this (eg, only the word money is counted). Hope that is clear enough. What formula should I use?

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  • Where Next for Google Translate? And What of Information Quality?

    - by ultan o'broin
    Fascinating article in the UK Guardian newspaper called Can Google break the computer language barrier? In it, Andreas Zollman, who works on Google Translate, comments that the quality of Google Translate's output relative to the amount of data required to create that output is clearly now falling foul of the law of diminishing returns. He says: "Each doubling of the amount of translated data input led to about a 0.5% improvement in the quality of the output," he suggests, but the doublings are not infinite. "We are now at this limit where there isn't that much more data in the world that we can use," he admits. "So now it is much more important again to add on different approaches and rules-based models." The Translation Guy has a further discussion on this, called Google Translate is Finished. He says: "And there aren't that many doublings left, if any. I can't say how much text Google has assimilated into their machine translation databases, but it's been reported that they have scanned about 11% of all printed content ever published. So double that, and double it again, and once more, shoveling all that into the translation hopper, and pretty soon you get the sum of all human knowledge, which means a whopping 1.5% improvement in the quality of the engines when everything has been analyzed. That's what we've got to look forward to, at best, since Google spiders regularly surf the Web, which in its vastness dwarfs all previously published content. So to all intents and purposes, the statistical machine translation tools of Google are done. Outstanding job, Googlers. Thanks." Surprisingly, all this analysis hasn't raised that much comment from the fans of machine translation, or its detractors either for that matter. Perhaps, it's the season of goodwill? What is clear to me, however, of course is that Google Translate isn't really finished (in any sense of the word). I am sure Google will investigate and come up with new rule-based translation models to enhance what they have already and that will also scale effectively where others didn't. So too, will they harness human input, which really is the way to go to train MT in the quality direction. But that aside, what does it say about the quality of the data that is being used for statistical machine translation in the first place? From the Guardian article it's clear that a huge humanly translated corpus drove the gains for Google Translate and now what's left is the dregs of badly translated and poorly created source materials that just can't deliver quality translations. There's a message about information quality there, surely. In the enterprise applications space, where we have some control over content this whole debate reinforces the relationship between information quality at source and translation efficiency, regardless of the technology used to do the translation. But as more automation comes to the fore, that information quality is even more critical if you want anything approaching a scalable solution. This is important for user experience professionals. Issues like user generated content translation, multilingual personalization, and scalable language quality are central to a superior global UX; it's a competitive issue we cannot ignore.

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