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McDonalds, move over, your days are gone. Now, instead of “Do you want fries with that” you’re supposed to ask “Do you want Google with that?”.

New times, new times…

P.S. Picture is the courtesy of TechCrunch.

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This Blog in Google Chrome

So the Google got themselves a powerful ally. Aside from heavily sponsoring Firefox Google has now created another entity of its own.

Not to bash Google in any way, but the product (even though it’s beta) seems scarce of features. My personal annoyances follow, but in general - I am overly satisfied with the way this new browser works. The speed alone can make up for half of the list below…

- I want to see is the status bar. Aha! It only shows up when needed - i.e. when you mouse over the link or during the page load process. Neat, but a little… unexpected.

- I want to block that annoying advertising. Please, give me my AdBlock! Now! I mean it!

- I am Firefox addict, so right-clicking on the link and choosing SECOND option must open new tab. I explicitly trained myself to avoid first option - to open link in a new window, I want my links in new tabs. Please, let me switch these options.

- Flock is a foul creature, a bastard son of Firefox and social media that no one wants to deal with. Please don’t use it’s annoying yellow information bars on top - I get enough of those in IE 7.

- I really miss all the progress bars… Even from “teh dialup times” those bars were entertaining - for all those moments when I was patiently waiting for page to load. My cable connection isn’t directly hooked into Tier 1 Premium Bandwidth provider, so I get to wait sometimes. Please, give me back my nostalgic piece of history…

- It’s 2008 for crying out loud. Why do I still have to go into settings and change default encoding from Western ISO-8859-1 to Unicode UTF-8 ? Is there any specific reason for it or the whole world just started speaking Engish exclusively?

- Last, but not least. Could you possibly change that annoying blue-and-white color scheme? No, green and white would be even more annoying.

There are couple of more issues I probably missed from the first glance, but overall I have a feeling that this is a very robust product with plenty of features to follow. It may look scarce on features, but doesn’t Google’s own first page look the same?

P.S. This post has been created in Google Chrome…

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Although this blog is not about search engine optimization, the company I run - Zealus Web Design Studio - is providing search engine optimization services. Which means we do conduct some in-house experiments. One of the experiments we did was on anti-optimization. In other words - we were trying to figure what actions may lead to web site’s loosing certain position in Google’s output.

Aside from obvious things, like decreasing the number of external links and their quality, removing links from social services and so on, we found that some things don’t quite work as expected. For example - removing pretty and fat links from other web sites don’t send the web site back to the position it held before. So for example, let’s say your web site was number 16 (or 6th on a second page). You’ve added a bunch of links from good web sites with some PR juice and your site jumped to be number 12. Now, if you kill every single link that you have added the web site will sink to (approximately) 14 - 15th position, staying one or two steps higher then before.

Not sure why is this happening, but it does. I’ll give it some time to see if it will sink deeper, but it looks like if you purchase links a little before Google’s PR update and remove them a little after - it may do the same trick as if you were paying for them all the time. All you need is just a sharp date of the next Google dance.

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