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Google Chrome and the Unnecessary Reinvention of the Wheel

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

In early September, the folks at Google quietly unveiled their Google Chrome web browser, intended to make yet another huge impact upon the market.  The fact of the matter is people just aren’t catching on to the hype the folks at Google were obviously banking on. Certainly, Google has become a regularly used word, ultimately making it a verb in the process that many people use when they mean to search for something.  This is great and all, but Google can’t expect a one-two punch with everything they create, and the beta version of Chrome leaves much to be desired. Look at ... Read Article »

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Yahoo Site Explorer - New Design

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

For those of you involved with search engine optimization as I am, you may have noticed that Yahoo has updated it's Site Explorer program, which has become used as a more popular tool for examining a website's backlinks than Google's service. It shows how many other websites are linking to you and there are also plugins which tell you if the links are nofollow or not. These plugins currently don't work on the new version, which looks slightly more modern and cleaner yet doesn't seem as usable as before. Perhaps it's one of those things you get used to. I'd reccommend ... Read Article »

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