If you want to add some extra features such as quotes of the day, Google maps and a myriad of others to your web site, then you may find this useful:
Google offers mini-programs for use on other sites - Yahoo! News
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) said on Tuesday it is making it easier to add hundreds of miniature programs to independent Web sites, in a move that brings handy features to users instead of making users rely on Google.com.
The Web search leader has jumped ahead of rivals -- such as Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news), Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) -- who offer mini-applets or "gadgets" when the user has installed special software on individual computer desktops.
Google Gadgets, which have previously been available for users to add to a Web user's personalized Google homepage or their own computers via Google Desktop software, are now available for Web page owners to add to their own sites.
"Instead of making people come to Google, now Google can be found everywhere," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li said of the push to make such programs available via other sites.
Web site publishers can choose from a gallery of 1,220 so-called "Google Gadgets" -- small bits of code that function as dynamic applications when installed on a Web page. Less than two dozen of the applications come from Google. Most are built by outside programmers seeking distribution for the programs.
Google Gadgets range from a miniature look-up for Google Maps or Google Calendar to independent applications ranging from financial information to sports to communication tools and jokes, horoscopes or geometric puzzle game Tetris.
A list of Google Gadgets can be found at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open/ .
To add a particular gadget to a Web page, users can with a few clicks locate the HTML source code of the program and insert it into their own Web sites using standard Web publishing tools. |
Google - Add stuff to your homepage
***Please note - clicking the "Add it now" button only adds the gadget to your Google homepage. To add the gadget to your non-Google site click on the actual link attached to the gadget, select "View Source", and paste the source html into your web page.
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