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Here’s an interesting News post from Google Operating System:

Shared by Chris Dean With this approach will Chrome ever exceed the abilities of Firefox? It’d be nice if it did, but it seems like Chrome will always be in a lagging position, unless Google can really add something noticably groundbreaking When Google Chrome was launched , many people wondered why there’s no support for Google Toolbar or for extensions that are available for Firefox. After fixing the glaring bugs reported by users, improving bookmark management , adding autocomplete and starting to work on Mac and Linux versions, the next step is to open the browser to developers. Google published a document that details how extensions will work in Google Chrome. “Chromium can’t be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to the next. The feature needs of one person often conflict directly with those of another. Further, one of the design goals of Chromium is to have a minimal light-weight user interface, which itself conflicts with adding lots of features.” The extension development should be similar to developing web pages, the browser should include support for silent autoupdate, extensions should not be able to crash the browser process and they should be run in sandboxed processes. An interesting side-effect would be that you won’t have to restart the browser after installing an extension, like in Firefox. Google lists some extensions that should work in Chrome: bookmarking tools like a toolbar for Delicious, content filtering extensions like Adblock (sic!), download managers like DownThemAll and other popular extensions that are available for Firefox. “We should start by building the infrastructure for an extension system that can support different types of extensibility. The system should be able to support an open-ended list of APIs over time, such as toolbars, sidebars, content scripts (for Greasemonkey-like functionality), and content filtering (for parental filters, malware filters, or adblock-like functionality). Some APIs will require privileges that must be granted, such as access to the history database or access to mail.google.com .” In the end, we should see an extension gallery hosted by Google that will initially include a list of popular Firefox extensions . Chrome won’t support XUL, so the extensions aren’t going to be ported automatically. The latest Chromium buils already include an initial Greasemonkey implementation , so there’s one less extension to build. { via Webware }

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On Google Chrome's Future Support for Extensions

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Here is a good post from Google Operating System:

As anticipated last month , Google’s experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it can be recognized by the visual clutter added to the search results. Next to each result, you should see three new options: a way to promote a web page at the top of the results, an option to remove results from the page (they’re still visible at the bottom of the page) and a feature that lets you share public comments about a result. After promoting a result, Google shows some unnecessary information about the other people who promoted the result. It’s important to remember that all the changes are saved to your Google account and they won’t affect the search results for everyone, at least not directly. If you want to see an aggregation of all promotions, demotions and comments, go to the bottom of the page and click on “See all notes for this SearchWiki”. This is the real wiki built by Google and it’s easy to access by adding &swm=2 to the URL of a search results page: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=google&swm=2 . Comments are not very useful, although you could find insights for some obscure queries. The absolute number of people who promoted a search result is not very useful either, especially when you’ll see big numbers like 314,159,265. SearchWiki’s main idea is to give users the opportunity to manually customize the search results and make them more predictable. Since many people repeat common searches like [mail], [weather], [news] and Google’s results are constantly changing, it’s nice to pick your favorite results and display them at the top. If you can’t find a site you like, click on “Add a result” and manually add a page in the list of top results. Good things about SearchWiki : – you can now adjust Google’s results for your typical queries and save time when repeating the searches – use Google instead of bookmarking web pages – for unfamiliar queries, check the wiki to find a different ranking and potentially useful comments. Try to avoid the wiki for queries that are likely to be spammed. Bad things about SearchWiki : – visual clutter. The only way to remove the additional icons displayed next to each search result is to log out. – your changes are available only when you repeat the query and, in some cases, for similar queries (e.g.: [google.com] in addition to [google]). That means you can’t remove a web page or a domain from all search results – comments are public and there’s no option to write private notes (Google removed the option to annotate results in Google Notebook) – an obvious feature would be to get a permalink for your edited results, but Google doesn’t offer this yet – there’s no option to toggle between your edited results and the standard results (you’ll have to log out) – it’s difficult to reorder results, since the only action allowed is to place a web page at the top, after all the other promoted pages. If you promote the page again, it will become the first result. Google has always used people’s clicks to improve the quality of search results, so the new options could influence the ranking algorithms in different ways. “At this time we aren’t using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future,” said Marissa Mayer . “Search is adapting to the Internet as it becomes a more participatory medium. Now you have people telling us specific things about how they’d like to see their search results. You could imagine if we do see a particular site (about which) people have a unanimous opinion, that might trigger external things. Like maybe we should check out our spam control,” suggested Cedric Dupont , product manager for SearchWiki and Google Knol.

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Shared by Chris Dean An interesting discussion, especially after seeing this previously: http://www.coderchris.com/seo/holy-keyword-loaded-sub-domains-batman/2008/08/20 (Example: http://winterjam.hearitfirst.com and http://www.hearitfirst.com/winterjam)? Do you search engines and traffic sites still see them both as traffic to the inherent site hearitfirst.com or is there something I can do to maximize this? Thank you.

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Does anyone know if there are traffic difference between URLs in the header of a url?

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Here is a new post from PHP-Princess.net:

A colleague IMed me earlier today. She was wondering why her .xlsx document was downloading as a strange .zip file. She had uploaded it into the content management system correctly, but when she tried to test it out, the file looked corrupted. Albert did some digging around and figured that the Microsoft Office 2007 files extensions were not recognized by Apache. So downloading files like .xlsx, .docx, .pptx, etc. will translate to file .zip instead. I did some further browser testing and noticed this problem only appears in IE browsers. It works perfectly in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. To fix this problem, you would need to add the extensions to the Apache config file. Step 1: Make sure you back up your configuration file (httpd.conf in Apache) or (apache2.conf in Apache2) Step 2: Search for the section with the AddType keywords. Step 3: Add the following lines: # MIME type fix AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet .xlsx AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document .docx AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow .pptx If you load other Microsoft Office 2007 files on your Apache web server, you may want to add additional file extensions . Thanks for figuring it out Albert ! That solved the mystery behind two work tickets today. Sources: Albertech.net , MS Office 2007 File Extensions at WebmasterWorld

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Here is an interesting post from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing:

From this article, overall, it looks like click-fraud is slowly on the decrease, that’s got to be good for everyone in this game. I was very surprised however, to find out that aside from Russia (which was expected) the biggest 2 contributors to click fraud were the UK and France. I can’t speak for the French but I have to wonder what’s causing this in the UK..? Is it organised crime; or is it lax security measures of the UK’s internet users allowingt he establishment of bot networks; is it even simply down to the mess the UK’s ip allocation infrastruture is in; or is it soemthing else entirely? Who knows? It will be interesting to see if this drops off when the UK is moved to to using IP v6 (assuming the handout of addresses is managed correctly). Click Forensics has released their estimated 3rd quarter click fraud numbers that they track. The numbers remain pretty much the same, at least as it pertains to the overall estimated industry average click fraud rate. The rate is now 16.0%, down from last quarter’s 16.2%. The main change…

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PHP Bay is a great set of PHP scripts for managing Ebay Affiliate campaigns and quite conveniently it also comes as a wordpress plugin.

You can manage everything from a small RSS list to a whole site based on Ebay content easily and depending on your particular niche it can pay for itself very quickly.

It also gives the ability to manage ads from other affiliate networks such as TradeDoubler, Mediaplex and Affilinet, and if you are a programmer yourself you can extend the functionality of it in custom ways.

There is an active and useful support forum and community behind the product which always a bonus!

If you visit the website it will explain all the main features of the product in a clear and concise way so I’ll not go into depth any further here aside from re-iterate the general features list and say that of the plugins of this type I have found to date phpBay is one of the most complete and easy to use out there!

Features:

• Add real earning potential to your site with Ebay listings.
• Keyword rich content to please search engines and drive traffic.
• Easily integrates into Wordpress 2.x as a plugin.
• Requires PHP 4+ with CURL Support.
• List items by keyword(s) and category number.
• Works with EPN, TradeDoubler, Mediaplex and Affilinet.
• Support for 16 different countries.
• Display listings in columns or rows.
• Now features paging.
• Geo IP Targeting.
• Specify a min/max number of bids.
• Specify a min/max price.
• Exclude items by keyword(s).
• List items by zip code.
• Find items by a specific seller.
• Video tutorials to walk you through installation and options.
• Comprehensive manual with complete documentation.
• Mask affiliate links and images with SEO URLs option.