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There are two (and prop. more) different Googles:

The ones that care, and the ones that make marketing!

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?

http://www.google.google doesn't even work yet

Try http://com.google

This is hilarious

They used it for April Fools this year (or was it last year?), it displayed a mirrored version of Google then.

Java package naming convention =)

https://domains.google is a thing.

And works with Weebly... ;)

How gaudy. I hope that the next generation of naming technologies will choose to interoperate with DNS by filing all this recent TLD pollution to an appropriate home under .icann.

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.

And thus knocking SEO firms targeting the keyword "keyword" off the top of the results. Well played, Google, you humorous bastards.

If anyone from Google is reading this, love the idea. I subscribed via the ancient RSS, but would love full articles in the RSS feed (not sure why it's just snippets).

I subscribed to the RSS Feed too. I would really like to see full stories as well.

RIP https://reader.google. :(

Yeah, they used to have full-text RSS feeds for many of their blogs, but now those have turned into snippet feeds; what a bummer.

Use fivefilters: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A...

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?

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

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 marketing plan and come up with justification to pay the $185,000 application fee and, if approved, the annual $25,000 fee. "

Source: http://adrianroselli.com/2011/06/make-your-own-tld-i-want-ba...

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.

If Google buys it, they'll probably just buy it to squat it, rather than use it. They're probably butthurt they lost out on the .blog gTLD. Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users. And Google cost us the option of having a .dev gTLD, that's for Google's use only.

"Let's not forget, the Californian goliath had tried to bag .blog, which it intended to pair with its Blogger service so that the only way to get a .blog domain would be to use Blogger."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gtl...

> Google wanted to make it a completely walled garden TLD only for Blogger users.

And they lost to Wordpress, who did exactly that.

That appears to be false, as https://nic.blog/ is soliciting registrars to offer it and .blog does not appear on ICANN's list of exclusive use gTLDs.

Ohh, great to hear. Thanks for the correction. I was right about ownership, but not about what they plan to do with it.

https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/

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.

Oddly (or perhaps not), this does not include news from Google Cloud.

I really loath gTLD, I understand because of domain squatting we need to increase the supply but this is just gross. A fairer system would have domains registration costs vary by length (shorter is more expensive)

This appears unsubstantiated. Why, exactly, do you hate gTLD?

Because it grates against the implied purpose of the inclusiveness of the internet. Every company registering these new TLD's keep all the good ones for themselves or in googles case they just keep the whole thing. The means for the majority of internet users to access this kind of land rush just dont exist.

And Google's either kept or tried keeping like 20 gTLDs to themselves. Look for Charleston Road Registry, a Google shell corp, on this list: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb/base-agreement-c...

cal, dev, drive, play, and prod are all ones I think the open Internet would've liked a chance at.

I don't think shell corporation means what you think it does, given that a gTLD is a pretty significant asset.

Here's a plan:

  1. Make up a word that doesn't exist yet (verify with Google).
  2. Start a company with that name.
  3. Grow it big enough.
  4. Claim your TLD.
  5. PROFIT!!!!!

I guess it just depends on who you think ICANN represents and who has the default implied ownership of domains, I would like to think they are a public asset, its like radio space do you think the gov should sell life time ownership of the transmission spectrum?

RF spectrum is a limited physical resource, unlike a completely imaginary thing like domains namespace. But some regulation is needed, so you can't register "something.", then register "google.something." and start scam users.

There is no such thing as "default implied ownership", you can propose anything to ICANN.

The Intercept.

The Macro.

The Keyword.

The Syntax.

The Grammar.

The Exception.

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