Chrome Market Share: One Year Later

Google released the Chrome browser on September 2, 2008. Now that Chrome has been out for about a year and it’s been almost six months since I last looked at Chrome’s market share , let’s take another peek

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Hidden Google Gem: My Tracks

I’ve really enjoyed making videos for webmasters. In the most recent recording session, we decided that it would be fun to talk about some of the “hidden gems” of Google: features, products, or tips that you might not know about, but you might like. One of my favorite hidden Google gems is a program for Android phones called My Tracks

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WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers

By the way, if you enjoyed my Straight from Google: What You Need to Know talk from WordCamp 2009, you might also enjoy my WordCamp 2007 talk: Whitehat SEO tips for bloggers . For convenience, I’ll include the video below: And here are the slides from the 2007 WordCamp talk: Not everyone has seen this talk, so I hope folks enjoy this talk from 2007!

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New Knol developments

Google launched Knol about a year ago. The big worry back then was that Google might favor Knol in our search rankings

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More about generic TLDs in (say) UK results

Some folks that I respect were giving me a bit of a hard time because they felt like I punted on this webmaster video: So let me take another stab at the question, and tell me what you think. There’s a couple effects going on: – first, we’ve been making changes that make it much more likely to see .coms in the UK. I’d say that’s 80-90% of the changes that people are seeing

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30 day reports

For the month of May, I didn’t watch any TV. I learned that I don’t miss summer TV that much

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Send To trick for Google Reader: Autotranslate

You can use Google Reader’s “Send To” feature for lots of fun things. Suppose you subscribe to a blog in another language, such as this French blog

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Google Reader adds “Send To” feature

I’ve wanted this forever.

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More info on the Caffeine Update

Google recently opened up a preview of our new Caffeine update , and I wanted to give a little more background on this change. At the Real-Time CrunchUp a few weeks ago, I joked that the half-life of code at Google is about six months.

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Good books to read for Summer 2009?

I’ve decided what I want to do for August: read 15 books in 30 days. I read three books this weekend: – The Accidental Billionaires , by Ben Mezrich.

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