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My Five Months With Google Chrome (20) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 day, 15 hours ago permalink
Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch. While I was reading Om’s post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I’ll include it here, and then let’s meet at the bottom and compare notes. Like many Google engineers, I’ve been running Google Chrome for several months. When I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write ...

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- Robert Scoble said: I'm still loving Chrome, except I signed up for the beta builds and now I'm getting weird behavior and crashing. Serves me right for trying to be an early adopter. :-)
- Razzu said: RTFC
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How to highlight author comments in WordPress (2) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 4 days, 18 hours ago permalink
A while ago I was looking around for how to make my own comments a different color on my blog. Most of the advice was along the lines of “Add code to check if the commenter’s email is the same as the email address of the blog’s author.” Can you spot the flaw in that logic? If a commenter knows the email address of the blog author, she could use the blog owner’s email address ...

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Google Blogsearch and Techmeme (28) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 5 days, 16 hours ago permalink
More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people want to discover interesting things on the web. Google Blogsearch’s new home page applies that insight with a browsable version of what’s going on in the blogosphere. The UI design is a little reminiscent of Google News, but the new Blogsearch home page uses a lot of different code. It’s great to see this new home page go ...

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How to back up your Gmail on Linux in four easy steps (2) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 week ago permalink
I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email. We’ll break this into four steps. Step 0: Why getmail? If you browse around on the web, you’ll find several options to help you download and backup your email. Here are a few: If you use Windows, you can back ...

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Five fun smartphone tips (14) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on RB | Top (146) 1 week, 1 day ago permalink
Matt Cutts via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO shared by 15 people Tip #1: See what you’re ordering. You’re at a restaurant and looking over the menu. But you don’t know the difference between a turkey bolognese and a turkey piccata. What to do? Fire up your iPhone, Android, or other smartphone and go to images.google.com and do a search for turkey bolognese. In just a few seconds, you’ll see what to expect: Ah, ...

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Where to submit Chrome feedback? (3) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 week, 2 days ago permalink
The best place to submit Chrome feedback is at http://groups.goo... Not here (I’m going to disable comments on this post) and not over at Search Engine Roundtable. I still see a comment a day or so trickling in over there, probably because the post ranks highly for “Chrome feedback.” Just to repeat, if you want a Chrome person to see your feedback, the best place to leave comments is at http://groups.goo...

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Google Moderator launches (21) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 week, 5 days ago permalink
Here’s a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator. This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo). What does Google Moderator do? When we have tech talks or company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote ...

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- Michael Hyatt said: I really like the sound of this tool. Maybe I should give it a whirl at Thomas Nelson.
- MiramarMike said: Nice and easy ... if I could add to my website/blog I'd be using this NOW!
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Traveling => Light posting (1) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 week, 6 days ago permalink
I’m not-in-California for a few days, so expect light posting. If you want to try to guess where I’m visiting, I may start posting “Where is Matt?” hints on my Twitter stream for people that want to play along. While I’m gone, enjoy the Android coverage. Even though I love my iPhone, I think lots of people appreciate the concept of an open phone. To the people that point out potential flaws, I would mention ...

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Yo ho ho! Happy Pirate Day, mateys! (2) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 2 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
I hope everyone be havin’ a great Talk Like a Pirate Day! It looks like Google added support fer Pirate in our user interface. I ‘ave t’ admit that I didn’ see that one comin’. Special thanks t’ th’ online pirate translator fer help wit’ this post, don’tcha know. May the “black spot” not darken your door, and may your parrots and monkeys behave well today!

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- Linda said: I hate Talk Like a Pirate Day. I think it amused me several years ago, but the novelty wore off.
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Sergey starts a blog! (2) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 2 weeks, 4 days ago permalink
I’ve checked with folks at Google and they confirmed that http://too.blogsp... is Sergey Brin’s blog. The name “too” reflects Sergey’s additional life outside work. One of his first posts is about the fact that he might be more likely to develop Parkinson’s Disease when he’s older. That’s based on data from 23andMe, the personal genetics company co-founded by Sergey’s wife Anne Wojcicki. It’s a serious reminder that healthiness is one of the top issues for ...

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Shiny Chrome bits, plus a fresh tip (11) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 3 weeks ago permalink
A few neat Chrome things that I’ve seen recently: CrossOver ported the open-source Chromium browser over to Mac and Linux using Wine. Bear in mind that this is more of a proof-of-concept and not the official version, but you can still download the binaries and play with it. If you like the look and feel of Chrome but can’t leave your Firefox 3 extensions behind, someone made a Chrome lookalike extension so that Firefox looks ...

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Best Yogurt in Silicon Valley? (4) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 3 weeks, 1 day ago permalink
Hi, my name is Matt, and I have a yogurt problem. It started last month when I discovered the joys of Pinkberry yogurt on my trip down to Los Angeles for SIGGRAPH. Pinkberry is different from “normal” yogurt like TCBY because it has a tart (or slightly sour) taste. If you’re living in middle America with no access to fancy-pants yogurt, the closest taste I would compare it to is DanActive yogurt. Except that I ...

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Arrrrr you prepared for Talk Like a Pirate Day with fonts? (15) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 4 weeks, 1 day ago permalink
Are you ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day? It’s September 19th (same date every year), so it’s coming up fast. I recently stumbled across some really nice pirate fonts online. This one is called Windlass, for example: Hat-tip to KPAO! which is a fun blog. Every time I start looking at fonts, I always surface 3-4 hours later realizing that I would have a serious font problem once I started. For example, did you ...

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- 4braham said: Werrrrs me Booooty!
- Rodrigo said: Bem no aniversário do meu pai. Eu deveria saber...
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Twitter added nofollow to &8220;www.&8221; links in their Bio field (33) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here’s the email: Sorry for the delay in replying; I’m really behind on email because I’ve been talking about Chrome this past week. The short answer is that back in ...

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- David Bradley said: nofollow twits
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Google Chrome user agent (12) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
It’s easy to find out what Google Chrome’s user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone, I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here’s the image that I see: My exact user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 So “0.2.149.27″ is the current version, but that will change over ...

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Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (55) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
Alright, I’ve got another conspiracy theory misconception to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by Marshall Kirkpatrick: The terms include a section giving Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post ...

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- Young said: Google won't be evil, it is what i said before, see?
- Luigi Centenaro said: E' bello che Google sappia che il mondo li tiene d'occhio...
- William said: What a fine, ethical team of lawyers they have over at Google.BTW, I DO NOT grant any license to any of my e-mail to Google. I DO grant a license for Google to retransmit materials that I create in their other services, provided that such retransmission is entirely digital, and provided that said transmission is done without the intent to profit from that specific transmission.
- Jordan Brock said: matt clears up the weird ToS issue with chrome ... Appears the lawyers cut and paste a bit too much
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Answers to common Google Chrome objections (53) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
I spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions that I came up with, along with my personal answers. I want to stress that this is my personal blog, so even though I believe all of this is accurate, ...

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- Young said: fine, well done matt.I love you.
- Linda said: try it. try it NOW.
- Bryan said: I <3 my fellow Googlers
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Preventing paranoia: when does Google Chrome talk to Google.com? (66) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
For better or worse, my blog is popular with the Google conspiracy-theorist demographic. I knew that as soon as Google Chrome launched, some readers would ask tough questions about privacy and how/when Google Chrome communicates with google.com. So I decided to tackle this issue head-on. I talked to the Chrome team to find out if there’s anything to worry about. The short answer is no. For the long answer, read on. - If you’re just ...

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- Young said: Very good!I will change it into Chinese.
- JLH said: If Chrome ran offline with no connection to the internet some people would still fear Google mining data.
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Watch the Google Chrome announcement yourself (13) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
According to a press release this morning, Google will host a webcast press briefing and demo of Google Chrome at 11 a.m. Pacific time today. I think this link (Windows Media Player) or this link (Real Player) will get you there in case you want to watch. I plan to be in the room and I’ll comment on tidbits that especially catch my ear.

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Get Ready for Google Chrome: New Open-Source Web Browser (27) share digg
by Matt Cutts (171) on Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO (154) 1 month ago permalink
Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow). I can’t wait to talk more about Google Chrome, but I’ll hold off until it officially launches. Once people can download Google Chrome, I plan to talk about my experiences using Google Chrome, to lay some truth on you about questions you might ask about Google Chrome, and to give some tips ...

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- Eric said: I'm excited by this. They are taking a different approach to the browser. One that acknowledges that many of us keep various pages open all day and use each tab as a separate application.
- Linda said: Waiting for the link to go live...
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