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Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field
Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae’s post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don’t live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I’d take what I emailed to John, add some pictures, and post it here. Here’s the email:Sorry for the delay in replying; I’m really [...]
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Google Chrome user agent
It’s easy to find out what Google Chrome’s user-agent is. Using the same trick as I did with the iPhone, I searched for phpinfo HTTP_USER_AGENT in Google Chrome. Click on one of the results and search for HTTP_USER_AGENT on the page. Here’s the image that I see:My exact user-agent isMozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; [...]
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Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome
Alright, I’ve got another conspiracy theory misconception to dispel. After reading through the Chrome Terms of Service, some people are worried that Google is trying to assert rights on everything that you do on Chrome. From one example story by Marshall Kirkpatrick:The terms include a section giving Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and [...]
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Answers to common Google Chrome objections
I spend a fair amount of my time debunking misconceptions about Google. So when I found out that Google Chrome was going to be released, I put on my thinking cap about what objections people would throw out about Google Chrome. Here are the questions that I came up with, along with my personal answers. [...]
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