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Google bringing new browser to the party

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Google have announced news of Chrome, a new open source Webkit-based browser. The central premise is that it has been designed from the ground-up to work efficiently with the demanding web applications of today’s web. In particular, it features a JavaScript engine called V8 which can utilise multiple processes, as opposed to the single-process engines that power Firefox and Safari.

As Google are emphasising performance, it will be interesting to compare their efforts with Safari’s new SquirrelFish JavaScript engine.

Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project

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Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk will play nicely together

Buried deep inside the press release announcing the Yahoo-Google search advertising deal, is an interesting point about the company’s respective messenger clients:

In addition, Yahoo! and Google agreed to enable interoperability between their respective instant messaging services, bringing easier and broader communication to users.

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Yahoo! joins OpenSocial

Last November, OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for developers to easily hook into many different social networks and extend their functionality.

Official Google Blog: OpenSocial continues to grow: Welcome, Yahoo!

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Monitoring your online presence with Google Alerts

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If you are interested in monitoring your online presence, or simply for a laugh, you can be alerted whenever your name is mentioned on a website. Here’s how:

visit Google Alerts
enter your name within double quotes in the Search terms box. e.g. “glen scott”
enter your e-mail address in the Your email box

Now, whenever your name is mentioned in a newly indexed page, you will be e-mailed with the link… fun!

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Search engine snippets, part 2

This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it:

Google:

Yahoo:

Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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Search engine snippets

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An interesting comparison of what content the two main search engines have chosen to display for my blog:

Google:

Yahoo!:

Google seems to have just picked up the footer of my site , whereas Yahoo has picked up the header, some post content and the footer.

At the moment, there is no meta description on the page which I’ll add soon to see how the listings change.

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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