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New Google Browser Extension Helps You Find Related Web Content
Aug 21st
Google has added a new free tool that lets you find related web content when you browse to select pages. The recommended links appear in a thin bar at the bottom of your browser.
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New Google Browser Extension Suggests Related Content
Aug 16th
Google has announced a new Chrome Extension and Google Toolbar feature called Google Related, which suggests new content relevant to the page you’re currently viewing. The extension offers many kinds of suggestions, including Web pages, shopping, maps and Google Places results. Google Related displays a toolbar at the bottom of the browser window, and the suggestions pop up when the mouse hovers over them. If you like a suggestion, there’s a built in +1 button.
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In order to provide these suggestions, Google obviously has to track your browser history. The Google Related and Google Toolbar privacy notices describe how the information is used and stored. Installing browser extensions or plug-ins is voluntary, of course, and they can be disabled or uninstalled anytime.
The Chrome Extension can be found in the Chrome Web Store, and the feature has been added as an option in Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
What do you think of Google Related’s recommendations?
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Your URL File Extension Won’t Affect Your SEO – Hit Search
Aug 2nd
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Your URL File Extension Won’t Affect Your SEO
Hit Search There are plenty of ways to improve your website’s Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, and the purpose of this series of articles is to illuminate the many ways that this is possible. … Internet Marketing SEO – It's Easy When You Know How WebiMax Ranks #1 in SEO Companies by topseos.com for August 2011 SEO Cheat Sheet, Ultra-Geek Style |
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TameJs: A JavaScript Extension for Making Event Programming Easier
Jul 18th
TameJs is an extension to JavaScript created by the OK Cupid team. Its purpose is to make event programming “easier to write, read, and edit.” It can be used with Node.js or other V8 projects. According to the site: “Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It’s just a cleaner way to write it.”
You can find it in GitHub, licensed under the MIT license.
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TameJs is actually based on a similar technology created by OK Cupid but designed for C++:
OkCupid serves externally over 100 million dynamic HTTP requests every day (over 1,000/second on average), each of which fires off calls to all kinds of other services, literally billions of async calls daily. Everything is Tamed, and we’ll never look back.
We’ve been watching the Node community for a while now, and here are our favorite sites/projects: HowToNode, debuggable, and Nodejitsu, and also the framework & middleware Express and Connect. The programmers at those sites have gotten us to turn our interest to Node. But async programming can fail in language scalability, if not performance scalability. JavaScript is missing native support for this kind of control-flow. (It’s worth noting C# just added an await primitive! They’re onto us.) We have the experience to see what it does to large-scale projects.
The C++ version is also available, however “it requires committing to certain other libraries you might not want (sfslite, libasync).”
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Firefox Extension Brings Semantic Recommendations to Browser Tabs
Jun 17th
Mozilla is always experimenting with how content is searched and discovered in Firefox. Mozilla Labs has released a new experimental feature today in its Prospector series. Called Predictive NewTab it supplements the fixed list of top sites presented to users when they open a new browser tab in Firefox.
The idea is to use the semantic data of browser history and tagged bookmarks to give users recommendations of places to visit on the Web when they open a new tab. It should make the “speed dial” list of sites users frequently visit faster and more relevant.
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In a blog post announcing the experimental Firefox extension, Mozilla uses the example of navigating away from Pandora with a new tab.
“After opening a new tab from Pandora, Firefox searches both your bookmarks and history for similar websites that you may be interested in based on what you were recently browsing,” Mozilla’s Abhinav Sharma wrote.” This is currently displayed along with some experimental statistics such as score (which is how similar the tags are) and “frecency” (which is a measure of frequency and recency). A hub is a page the algorithms and heuristics rate as a good candidate as a “home page” or other important page in a website, and BM Engine is an indicator of whether the search result came from a bookmark tag. The results are ranked by no individual one of these but instead a combination.”
Predictive NewTab works best if a user has a large number of “well-tagged bookmarks.” It will work without bookmarks, but Firefox will have less reference material to pull recommendations from.
Mozilla says that Predictive NewTab is an early-stage experiment and not a polished product designed to help advance history search within Firefox, develop better methods for telling what pages are important to a user and to introduce a “painless way for users to provide feedback to the browser.”
Other experimental features that Mozilla has been working on include the AwesomeBar HD that helps provide categorical search within the browser bar and Home Dash, a Prospector initiative designed to navigate Firefox without and URL bar altogether.
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Acrolinx Confirms Extension of Partnership With Arbortext – Marketwire (press release)
Jun 10th
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Acrolinx Confirms Extension of Partnership With Arbortext
Marketwire (press release) BERLIN–(Marketwire – Jun 10, 2011) – In wake of the forthcoming PlanetPTC Live show in Las Vegas, Acrolinx, a provider of linguistic intelligence software that shapes language use for SEO, multi-language translation and global searchability, … |
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Google: Product Extension Ads Now Available For Mobile
Jun 9th
This morning Google announced two new ad formats or mobile — or rather the extension of two PC ad types to smartphones — Product Extension Ads and Product Local Ads. Basically these two mobile formats allow marketers to include product images and related data in ads showing on mobile…
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Move Over +1, +Like Extension Brings Facebook Likes to Google Search Results
Apr 11th
Last month, Google finally unveiled its long-awaited +1 effort, wherein Google users recommend search results by clicking a “+1″ button next to the result. Then, when their Google “friends” search, those results are shown as recommended. The addition of +1 followed the previous months addition of social recommendation into search results using Twitter and other social sharing.
Facebook – the center of many users’ online social sharing experience – has been notably absent from all of this. A browser extension called “Google +Like” has come along, however, to bring the best parts of the two rival companies together into a social search experience.
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To those of you who keep a close eye on tech news, the absence of Facebook from all of this is no surprise. The two companies are famously unfriendly with each other. Facebook and Bing are closely aligned, offering the sort of social search integration that users may desire from Google as well.
“Google +Like” brings a similar sort of Facebook integration to Google search results, allowing users to like results directly from their search results page and more. While “Google +Like” won’t change the order of your search results or alter them in any way that a close integration would offer, it shows the general popularity of a link on Facebook and who, out of your Facebook friends, has liked the link. The extension is available for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and allows users to not only see these “Likes” in their basic search results, but also in news and video results.
There has been one question that has been absent from much of the discussion surrounding Google and its +1 button – do we really want social recommendations in our search results? What do you think – do you want your Twitter and Facebook friends, your Google contacts, to influence your search results? Or would you rather keep social out of search entirely?
According to the extension’s website, “Google +Like” was built in a single day using Crossrider, “a free, easy to use, JavaScript/jQuery framework to create cross browser extensions.”
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One Extension to Rule Them All: Kynetx Opens Cross-Browser App Store
Mar 23rd
Here an app store, there an app store, everywhere an app store. 2011 is quickly becoming a year of app stores, with each browser offering its own marketplace of Web apps. What’s a multi-browser user to do in this world?
Kynetx, a cross-browser platform for browser extensions and apps, wants to give both developers and users a one-stop shop for apps that don’t discriminate according to what browser you use for what task. The company has launched an app store of its own for something it’s calling “browser apps.”
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“Browser apps,” according to the company, are “cloud-based, event-driven applications for the ‘Live Web’ that seamlessly run in Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer.” Calling itself a “Greasemonkey for the cloud,” Kynetx offers tools for developers to create these cross-browser apps and an app store for users to discover browser apps, regardless of which browser they are using.
The difference between something like Kynetx and a browser-specific service like Greasemonkey, explained VP of “platform evangelism” at Kynetx Brad Hintze, is that Kynetx runs entirely within a single browser extension. It also runs entirely in the cloud, meaning that the end-user never needs to worry about updating their extensions; the moment a developer uploads an update, the user sees the results.
We spoke with Hintze last week at SXSW, where he explained that the Kynetx extension saves both memory and processing power by only loading individual extensions when they are needed. This is the “event-driven” part mentioned above. Take a browser extension like my6sense for Chrome. It modifies Twitter.com to provide a personalized experience. If you look at your resource usage, however, you’ll notice that it’s always on, whether or not you’re actively looking at the Twitter website. The same goes for all Chrome extensions. With a Kynetx “browser app,” it would only become active in response to an event, such as visiting Twitter.com.
The other primary difference between Kynetx and individual browser extensions is that once a user installs the Kynetx extension for a particular browser, they have access to all the same browser apps that they would on any other browser. For both user and developer, Kynetx offers a uniform experience across browsers. Will users want to adopt another app store? If Kynetx can draw in developers with the lure of one code for multiple browsers, the users may follow.
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Block Sites From Your Google Search Results (No Extension Required)
Mar 10th
After a litany of complaints about the declining quality of its search, Google has made a number of changes over the last few weeks to combat the spam in search results. It tweaked its algorithm, for example, and it unveiled a Chrome extension that lets you manually block certain sites from showing up.
That functionality will now be available without an extension (provided you’re using versions Chrome 9, IE8 or Firefox 3.5 or higher) as Google is adding a new option to its search that will give you the ability to block domains from appearing in your future search results.
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Now, appearing next the link to “Cached” and “Similar” will be the option to “Block all” results from a domain. Once you’ve blacklisted a domain, you won’t see it in search results, although if it would appear there, you’ll get a message telling you that some results have been blocked.
These domains will be connected to your Google Account, so you’ll have the ability to see your list of blocked sites and manage them via your Search Settings.
Google says it hopes this will improve search results, and it’s bound to if you’re irritated enough by certain domains to take the time to block them. Google also says that, at this time, it’s not using any information about which sites people choose to block as a signal for search ranking. However Google plans to keep an eye on this data as it looks to improve search results in the future.
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