Java applets running under Google Chrome

I just checked a flight at flightview.com and when I clicked on ‘live view’ I was invited to download the Java plugin. It appears to work fine.

Duplicate content penalties?

SEO commentators have long held that Google imposes a ‘duplicate’ content penalty on sites that have more than one instance of substantially the same content. Google’s Susan Moskwa dispels the myths in an article on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
The crux of the article is that, except for duplicate content that breaches Google’s webmaster [...]

YouTube Audio indexing

Google Labs have developed technology to analyze audio contained within YouTube videos and make it searchable.
Initially they have set up a Google Elections Video Search gadget which focuses on the the US election.
The implications of this technology are huge. Videos have always been a very compelling way of disseminating information but the words included in [...]

Google - the good is the enemy of the great

Google search is good - the best available. I use it all the time, but recently three articles set me thinking about the future of search and the level of innovation in search accuracy.

On September 7, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience. [...]

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a new, yet to be released open-source Web browser from Google. According to Google, the main reason for its existence is to provide a firmer foundation for increasingly complex, mission critical and JavaScript driven applications (such as Google Apps). As they say, a normal HTML Web page crashing a browser is one [...]