Questions tagged [google]
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.
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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, ...
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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....
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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-...
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How did Google acquire 8.8.8.8? [closed]
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 ...
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How to determine if google public stun server is alive or usable? [closed]
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 ...
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Open Source alternative to "Google Appliance" for intranet search? [closed]
Are there any alternative open source solutions (with a web console)?
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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 ...
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When Google DNS (or Open DNS) is a good fit [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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Location of Google servers [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Do CNAME DNS entries affect SEO?
I am setting up a website for a client that I will be hosting and maintaining, and I am trying to determine what will be the most pain free setup. My thought is to do the following:
Set up the ...
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Why does Postfix deliver mails locally instead of relaying them to Google Apps?
I get the following error trying to send an email to my Google Apps Email at [email protected] from my Postfix server.
to=, relay=local, delay=0.09, delays=0.07/0/0/0.02, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced ...
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How to deal with Microsoft and Google agressive spam policies?
Introduction: I have run my own mail server for more than 10 years, and I never had any problem with Gmail, so far. But I needed to complain regularly (like every year) to Hotmail, because they were ...
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What's the correct way of having a GCP account without a GSuit account?
My organization doesn't use GSuit but we still want to use the Google Cloud Platform. I signed up there with my non-gsuit email address and I have a GCP account I can log in to.
There are two issues ...
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What hardware do the Google servers use?
What kind of hardware does Google use?
Exclusively Intel processors? Always?
Xeons, Duos, or Quads?
Intel chipsets?
motherboards - Intel, Gigabyte, MSI?
What kind and build of RAM?
What physical ...
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High percentage of lost packets - TCP, ICMP - mtr - Complain to ISP?
Problem
I'm having high packet loss, according to mtr, when sending packets over the Internet. Should I complain to my ISP?
Story
I am reading the OReilly Linux Networking Cookbook and the chapter ...
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How can I tell how often Google crawls my site?
I've started a relatively new website, and I submitted it to google and everything. I use google's webmaster tools as well. I'm wondering how to figure out the frequency of google's spider accessing ...
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How do I rate limit google's crawl of my IP block?
I have several sites in a /24 network that all get crawled by google on a pretty regular basis. Normally this is fine. However, when google starts crawling all the sites at the same time, the small ...
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Will my URL stay secret if I never link to it?
I have a URL that I would like to share with my friend who needs the information on it, but I do not want the public to see it.
The URL refers to an index.html, which is in my public_html and ...
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Adding a hostname with 'www' to TXT entry in nameserver makes website unavailable - why?
One way to verify sites when using Googles webmaster tools is to add a TXT entry to the nameserver, using the hostname and adding the provided text.
Accidentally (because I simply didn't know) I ...
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google mail send as accounts.. how to block?
An employee of ours set up his gmail account to send emails as [email protected], which was fine, but now he has left the company and we have disabled his company account.
He is still able to ...
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Does hosting multiple sites on one server hurt your SEO?
I have a handful of (content unrelated) sites with decent PRs and I'm considering hosting them all on the same server. I've heard that if you do this, internal linking between two seperate domains on ...
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Is GMAIL incorrectly failing SPF?
0365 mail users are encouraged to use include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all in their SPF record.
I have followed this guidance. My company's spf record says:
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook....
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Why does spf fail in DMARC report from Google?
I recently received a DMARC report from Google alerting me of a few SPF failures with mail originating from IP addresses belonging to Amazon SES. A sample record is as follows (I have replaced our ...
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Need help setting up Google Cloud Directory Sync with AD using secure LDAP
I wanted to see if anyone else has set up a Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS aka GADS) with their Active Directory over secure LDAP (LDAPS). We've been syncing over port 389 and I'd like to encrypt ...
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Does Google provide hosting servers means like vps or dedicated servers? [closed]
I want to make it sure does google provide hosting servers like virtual private servers or dedicated besides free hosting that is available from sites.google.com
Does google have something like ...
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How to "bounce" or proxy XMPP accounts?
I think I'm looking for an XMPP bouncer. But XMPP federation is a confusing thing for someone who's never dug into it before, so I'm having trouble evaluating solutions or even searching for the right ...
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DNS issues on Google compute engine
I'm experiencing some interesting network issues, which I can reproduce and work around, although not explain - therefore I ask you! :)
I have a setup with two servers, both located in Google's ...
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Why is ping to Google servers and Google DNS so low?
I noticed that ping to Google DNS and to google.com from Serbia is about 15ms, but google servers are located in California! http://www.geoiptool.com/en/?IP=173.194.39.110 My dedicated server is ...
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How do companies know they've been hacked?
With the news of Google and others getting hacked, I was wondering how companies find out, detect, and/or know they've been hacked in the first place?
Sure, if they find a virus/trojan on user's ...
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Outsource my email server to Google
I've been looking into setting up my own email server the past couple of weeks and the more I look into it the more I feel that this is an area I do not want to get into. I guess my heart just isn't ...
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PTR OK, SPF, DKIM passed but email messages are marked as Spam by Google?
# host 1.2.3.4
4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.domain.vn.
# dig +short txt domain.vn
"v=spf1 a mx ptr -all"
# dig +short txt mail.domain.vn
"v=spf1 a -all"
Here's an email header that ...
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Searching two sites at once using Google? [closed]
How can I limit a Google search to two sites at once?
I can search Serverfault by doing site:serverfault.com windows xp, but I can't seem to figure out how to include another site in my search.
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Adding an HTTP request header with Squid
I want to permit my users to login to Google apps only for my domain. I found a solution by adding the HTTP header X-GoogApps-Allowed-Domains as described in this Google help page.
I use Squid, but ...
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What is the best way to move site to new domain without losing google page rank
I just bought new domain for my web page.
Is it good to use php redirection to the new domain and what are the exact headers that I must send to google bot to just renew the address and keep the page ...
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Trouble with Google Apps Custom Domain SSL
I'm currently inside the 30-day free trial for Google Apps for business (billing set up, so will start non-free trial soon). I'm attempting to set up SSL for a custom domain for a Google App Engine ...
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Google SMTP Connection Timeout
How do I find out why Gmail is seemingly refusing connections from my specific IP range?
I'm getting a "Connection timeout" error when attempting to send email through smtp.gmail.com using the email ...
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Does Android version 2.2 locally encrypt Activesync messages?
I am a sysadmin for company X. They are interested in allowing ActiveSync access to devices that support local offline encryption of the downloaded attachments and email data.
Considering how the ...
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Working around Gmail mailing-list "feature."
We're using Google Apps for our domain's e-mail via IMAP. Whenever mail is sent to a mailing list, copies of the original mail are not received in inboxes. According to Google, this is a "feature."
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What's the benefit of using "containers" in the datacenter as opposite to regular installation
I have just seen this video: Google container data center tour
What is not quite clear to me is, what's the benefit from placing the servers inside containers?
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How often does Google's web spiders crawl the web?
Just a few hours after having made some changes in the HTML of my site, I found that Google had updated its search result against my website. The Internet is so huge, how did the Google crawler do ...
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Host my own email in a VPS and stop using gmail, which options do I have?
I'm planning to stop using some google services (like gmail for personal email, still be using for services like google code though). I'm not too paranoid, I know every service in the net is a threat ...
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Does google's web crawler download binary files?
My Google-fu is failing me right now.
I'm trying to figure out whether Google's web crawler downloads non-image binary files when it spiders sites. I know it downloads (and indexes) images and PDFs, ...
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Google network architecture
I am aware that this question might be closed as "not a real question", "subjective" or even "argumentative". If this is a mistake, I am sorry.
I am not good at all at networking but I'm trying to ...
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Why can't I whois '.google' domains?
I know of only two domains under the TLD google (owned by Google, obviously):
nic.google
lers.google
However, neither of these give valid output when used with whois:
$ whois nic.google
No whois ...