Google Announces Google Gadgets for Your Website

WebKnowHow
Wednesday, October 4, 2006; 01:58 AM

Google Gadgets, which have been available for users to add to the Google homepage and Google Desktop, are now available for webpage owners to add to their own webpages.

Google Gadgets are miniature-sized web objects that offer cool and dynamic content that can be placed on any page on the internet. A directory of "Google Gadgets for your webpage" is available for webpage owners everywhere to browse and select gadgets for their own pages, at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open.

"Now anyone can have a great-looking website with automatically updating content," said Adam Sah, Google Gadgets Architect. "By making Google Gadgets available for you to add to your webpage, we're working to connect developers with enthusiastic consumers and to make information universally accessible and useful to the individual user."

With litle effort and at no cost, webpage owners can add complex, dynamically updating content to their own websites using Google Gadgets. Because there is such an enormous variety of Google Gadgets to choose from, webmasters also have a great deal of freedom to select only the gadgets that will best complement their own page. There are games, news clips, weather reports, maps, and more.

Webmasters can visit the directory of "Google Gadgets for your webpage" to find gadgets and select the preferences for how the gadget will appear on their page. Then, they can simply copy and paste the HTML from the window into the HTML code for the website.

For developers of universal gadgets, Google's making the gadgets available to webpage owners everywhere presents an opportunity for a much larger audience than ever before. More information is available at http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/ .

A listing of Google Gadgets.