Google Chrome came out of beta today. Users can now download it at the official Chrome site. Users who are currently running the beta version will be notified of the new update on Friday. I can’t wait to see if all the bug fixed have been ironed out, chrome has been my browser of choice since I started getting those nasty firefox/google ssl errors.
I just noticed that Google started showing sponsored listings on the top and right side on Youtube searches. It works for web searches and I think it will work for Youtube. Its one of the many ways Google is trying to monetize Youtube and all its traffic.
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders Google and Yahoo to dramatically improve the search results of Flash based content. Adobe is providing optimized Flash player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of flash based websites and other dynamic content.
The improvement is the result of efforts by software engineers at Yahoo, Google and Adobe. In the past, web designers faced major challenges if they chose to develop a site in flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.
Its seems simple enough but it took me a little while to figure this out. I was getting annoyed at constantly being “annoyed” with people trying to instant message me whenever I tried to check email.
Just scroll down to the chat area on the left side you can either click on the drop down arrow to the right of your status message and select turn off chat
…or you can click on options just below the chat area and select turn off chat…
See that wasn’t hard….now you can check email without being bothered….I use Pidgin anyway