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"It's finally here: Google Chrome for Mac. Available today in beta!"
It's finally here: Google Chrome for Mac. Available today in beta!
Hi there,
Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We're excited to let you know that Google Chrome is now available in beta for Mac OS X.
Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:
- 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
- 29 developer builds
- 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
- 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
- 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
- 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
- 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
Thanks for waiting and we hope you'll give Google Chrome for Mac a whirl.
Google Chrome Team
www.google.com/chrome
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200 Factors Google Weighs to Rank Your Page
There are "over 200 SEO factors" that Google uses to rank pages in the Google search results (SERPs). What are the search engine optimization rules?
Here is the speculation - educated guesses by SEO webmasters on top webmaster forums.
Ever wonder how Google ranks pages?
Search engine optimisation is almost like black magic. Google keeps the ingredients to its secret sauce highly confidential, but people do notice patterns.
This list I stumbled upon is interesting because some of these "educated guesses" are here confirmed by *Google patents* (which are publicly available).
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Taking egosurfing to the extreme! ;). http://x.alphalim.me/googlealpha
Actually, I was tired of the proliferation of my online profiles and trying to decide which social network to use as the definitive profile.
Then I realised that there's no such thing as a definitive profile. When I'm on a network, I just look at your profile on that network. If I really want to stalk - I mean, know more about - you, I'll google you.
So I realised that Google is my - and your - de facto online profile. That led inexorably to http://x.alphalim.me/googlealpha.
Wanna make your own? It's simple:
1. Google your name, e.g. [tan-ah-kow].
2. In the search results, click on the little "up arrows" to promote links that you want to highlight.
2.1. I think you've got to be logged in to your Google account for this to work.
3. Near the top of the first search result page, click on the link that says something about sharing "this SearchWiki".
3.1. Copy the url that it gives to you.
4. Go to http://tr.im, paste in that url and type a shortcut link name, e.g. "googletakow".
4.1. tr.im will give you a url like http://tr.im/googletakow.
5. Go to your domain name settings and create a subdomain and a CNAME record pointing to tr.im.
5.1. For example, x.alphalim.me points to tr.im
6. Use the tr.im shortcut at the end of your newly created subdomain, e.g. "googlealpha" at the end of my link.
7. Enjoy your very own egosearch!
btw, I did not have to alter my results very much. That's the benefit of having a unique name, I guess. But I did have to bump http://alphalim.me to the top, from the third search result page! It was buried so far in because it's rather new, I think!
btbtw, you'll notice that the steps above get more and more complex. You can actually stop anywhere after 3.1.
btbtbtw, Egosurfing according to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egosurfing
btbtbtbtw, I just (Nov 2, 09) edited my profile link - dropped another 2 characters from the count ;).
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