Twitter added nofollow to &8220;www.&8221; links in their Bio field (21)
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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 ...
Google Chrome user agent (8)
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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 ...
Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (45)
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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?
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Luigi Centenaro said:
E' bello che Google sappia che il mondo li tiene d'occhio...
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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.
Answers to common Google Chrome objections (41)
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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.
Watch the Google Chrome announcement yourself (11)
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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.
Get Ready for Google Chrome: New Open-Source Web Browser (22)
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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.
Three tips for “company blogging” (4)
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This is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few hard-won lessons. So, when someone recently asked me for tips about talking to the public, I couldn’t resist. Whether you blog for the company officially or unofficially, here are my top three rules of thumb: Don’t make hard ...
How to configure Synergy in six steps (2)
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What is Synergy? It’s a program that lets you share a virtual desktop between two different computers. With one mouse and keyboard, you can control two computers, and even move your mouse from one desktop to the other. It’s almost like the computers are welded together. I’ll demonstrate. This is what my desk at home looks like when my desk is clean: On the left-hand monitor I have a Windows XP system running. On the ...
Three tips to protect your WordPress installation (3)
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Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog: Secure your /wp-admin/ directory. What I’ve done is lock down /wp-admin/ so that only certain IP addresses can access that directory. I use an .htaccess file, which you can place directly at /wp-admin/.htaccess . This is what mine looks like: AuthUserFile /dev/null AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName “Access Control” AuthType Basic order deny,allow deny from all # whitelist home IP address ...
My favorite books of 2008 (so far) (13)
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Okay, so we’re more than halfway through 2008. I’m a voracious reader, and I wanted to share my favorite books that I read in the first half of 2008. 1. American Shaolin. Matthew Polly grew up in Kansas and decided to go study martial arts in China with Shaolin monks. I dare you to read the first chapter and then try to stop reading. Polly sets up a hook -- the beginning of a fight ...
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Adam Dorfman said:
barf. google's head of search quality is promoting doctorow's book.
iPhone can connect to anything...including your funnybone. (2)
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Update: This was an April Fool’s day joke. I recently discovered something really wild: the iPhone has a secret SATA interface. Using the SATA interface, the iPhone is much easier to hack because it looks just like a hard drive to a computer, so you can replace individual executables and symlinks with no effort. Readers know that I’m a bit of a storage freak. A month or so ago, I was reading on Lifehacker about ...
Three tips for “company blogging” (35)
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This is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few hard-won lessons. So, when someone recently asked me for tips about talking to the public, I couldn’t resist. Whether you blog for the company officially or unofficially, here are my top three rules of thumb: Don’t make hard ...
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Deeter said:
Matt's advice may seem simple but it isn't, primarily because it goes against the grain of "blogging". A blogger quickly learns that he/she has to be REAL. This means saying more than the reader expects, opening the golden doors of your inner sanctum (office) and sharing things as if they were a trusted friend. But, as Matt said, that is dangerous if your rep is linked to a corporation. In my opinion, that is one of the reasons why most "company blogs" fall flat and become, as Doug Karr once put it... "clogs".
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Joe said:
Very good advice from Matt. When I was actively blogging while at Microsoft this captures my thinking at the time.
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Young said:
Don't post when you're angry!!
Digging out from SIGGRAPH and L.A. (2)
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I’m up to my ears in email from last week, but I had a great time down in Los Angeles and at SIGGRAPH: I’ll try to write up a little bit about the trip, but for now I’m gearing up for SES San Jose. Places to find me: - I’ll be on a keynote panel on Tuesday. By the way, I don’t know who put my title as “Software Engineer Guru,” but it wasn’t me. ...
A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets (31)
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Bookmarklets are very handy pieces of JavaScript code that you can bookmark. In HTML, if you want a link to open in a new window, you’d write it like this: <a href=”http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/” target=”_blank”>Matt Cutts</a> Go on, try it on this link: Matt Cutts If you wanted to create a bookmarklet to open a new window or tab, you’d do it like this: javascript:(function(){ window.open(’http://www.cnn.com/’); })(); so the actual bookmarklet link that would appear in your ...
Ben Gomes on Google’s user interface (15)
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This summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate Amit Singhal discussed some of our principles of core ranking. Amit followed that with a post about how we understand pages, queries, and users that revealed that Google does much more sophisticated semantic ...
Ben Gomes on Google’s user interface (1)
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This summer several people in Google’s quality group have pulled back the curtain on how people think about search quality at Google. We’ve had Udi Manber give an overview of search quality and the groups that work on it. Then my office-mate Amit Singhal discussed some of our principles of core ranking. Amit followed that with a post about how we understand pages, queries, and users that revealed that Google does much more sophisticated semantic ...
My schedule for late 2008 (2)
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Every few months I like to give people an update on where I expect to be over the next few months. I apologize in advance if I have to decline other speaking invitations, but I’m genuinely trying to travel less and speak less these days to get a better work/life balance. Here are my tentative plans: This week: In-laws are visiting, so I will be posting less and slower on email. August 11-15, 2008: I’m ...
