Comments on: What Are GModules?

By: Calvin Robinson

Calvin Robinson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:22:24 +0000

A great example of gmodules is Wario Shakeup advertisement for Wii; http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

By: kvip

kvip — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:40:06 +0000

i think is that when you log into a the Internet and igoogle starts and transfer your personalized thing to your igoogle.

By: goog

goog — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:34:44 +0000

I don’t know but I’ll try it on my atari

By: xo.coco.xo

xo.coco.xo — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:42:28 +0000

Will it be able to work on PSP as well?

By: Hasanat

Hasanat — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:22:37 +0000

G-module is a vector space satisfies some conditions over some field F and a group G. ( abstract algebra/ mathematics )

By: Javascript News » Blog Archive » OpenSocial Container Checker: IGCheck

Javascript News » Blog Archive » OpenSocial Container Checker: IGCheck — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:36:23 +0000

[...] uses the gmodules infrastructure of Google Gadgets to run the opensocial api (see the line “host” in the result [...]

By: Toojoor » Blog Archive » Opensocial containers: check Google Gadget API compliance with gadget “IGCheck” (dev tool)

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:43:55 +0000

[...] uses the gmodules infrastructure of Google Gadgets to run the opensocial api (see the line “host” in the result [...]

By: Electrophill

Electrophill — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:23:53 +0000

It seems these GModules are being used quite a bit on YouTube lately to artificially inflate a video’s view numbers. Some videos have all 5 links counting in the thousands with 5 distinct numerals of course in front of dot gmodule.

By: Filipe Melo

Filipe Melo — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:05:32 +0000

GModules is a deployment domain for gadgets development as can be seen here: http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/synd.html

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:43:02 +0000

Its from google gadgets. I submited http://www.meetfido.com/feeder.xml to “add to your home page” and now the logs see requests from 12.gmodules.com, 14.gmodules.com etc etc

By: Frank Wakelin

Frank Wakelin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:55 +0000

SO a different take on this would be that if I wanted to block the use of google gadgets on my compnay websites I can block url hostnames containing “gmodules.com”?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:07:29 +0000

So are gadgets and modules really the same? one ends on .gg and the other on .xml … and gg seems to be binary … would be great if i could use gadgets as modules ;-)

By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:39:03 +0000

Since the beginning, Google uses gmodules.com as the domain to store widgets for the Google Personalized Homepage available at google.com/ig (the reason being, I assume, to prevent cross-site scripting abuse from widget developers). In the meantime, Google tried to rebrand “modules” to “gadgets”, but this change doesn’t reflect everywhere yet. GoogleModules.com on the other hand is a domain owned by Alex Ksikes and me :)

By: Sameer Aidoor

Sameer Aidoor — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:58:37 +0000

Much as I liked reading the speculation about gmodules, the fact is its a remnant of the google gadget project, which lets you add (and develop) modules for the personalized homepage as well as Google Desktop. Its clear from the note on the Google Gadgets API documentation:

Gadgets were formerly called modules, which is why the word "Module" appears throughout the API.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:33:05 +0000

Google have registered some much weirder domains lately. Check out these ones.

BAYAREABURRITOS.com GUACRULES.com MARIOLOVESPASTA.com SANFRANBURRITOS.com SPICYCATERINGSF.com THESECRETOFBURRITOS.com

By: techguy

techguy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:46:05 +0000

They did the same thing with GBuy, but then changed their mind and decided to call it Google Checkout. I wonder if they will do the same with GModules.

It makes sense. Google is the brand and by using just the G you lose the brand.