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If you have a professional website you want to be found also by these other engines. Until also these support javascript you may end up with a hybrid SEO architecture anyway which means nothing was gained?
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And here I was thinking that it was Apple and the iPhone that effectively killed Flash. Silly me.
They disliked flash for different reasons. Google for search and apple because flash games were too powerful, jobs wanted those games turned into iPhone apps. The offical reasons were speed and security, which was obviously a farce since all the major browser vendors wrote their own PDF viewers which is both slow and known for tons of security issues as well. They could have just as easily wrote their own fast and se…
I do agree with you that Google's security model is broken in many ways, both on the web and in Android.
I'm convinced that Google has several Googlebots that are run depending on how popular a site is. That is, new and low traffic sites are crawled by less intelligent bots, and as the site gets more visitors or better rankings, more complicated and resource intensive bots are deployed. How this might work with the most popular sites out there, the Amazons and Wikipedias of this world - I'm not so sure about that. If I…
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Chrome does send domains/urls entered in the omnibar to google (I think someone did the experiment to test it several years ago), but sending out page content to google? If it were true it'll cause a huge legal and privacy problem, especially in places with tight privacy law like Europe.
Exactly, imagine if Google sends the page content after you log into your bank account.
My pet theory is that Google actually developed chrome as a web crawler and that consumer release was to ensure that Google would always be able to crawl pages (since sites would always want to work properly with chrome) It also explains why they effectively killed flash and Java applets. They were competing technologies that weren't owned by Google and not crawlable. If they would have taken off, Google's position a…
If that was true, you would think they would have responded better to the threat of Facebook than with Google+ and their distasteful pushing of it on all their platforms. What do I mean with “the threat of Facebook”? In the old days, before today’s large “social media” sites, people made their own web pages on places like GeoCities or on simpler social-media-like sites like LiveJournal, etc. Those sites all had conte…
It makes sense to me that now someone who used to be motivated to build a site about their life or a topic of interest now may often just sign up for a service like FB and occasionally do a post with an article, picture, etc about themselves/their interests. It seems to require much less effort for folks, which is perhaps why they do this. I lament the change somewhat and wonder what the future holds for this type of thing.
My pet theory is that Google actually developed chrome as a web crawler and that consumer release was to ensure that Google would always be able to crawl pages (since sites would always want to work properly with chrome) It also explains why they effectively killed flash and Java applets. They were competing technologies that weren't owned by Google and not crawlable. If they would have taken off, Google's position a…
Google did not kill Flash. Chrome came bundled with Flash already installed. Apple made the biggest push to kill Flash and once support for HTML5 video was solid and widespread the main use case for Flash was gone. Java applets just always sucked and only masochists/sadists ever used them.
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I think that is unlikely because then SEO specialists would generate and send such data to improve the positions of their websites. But Google could use this to discover new URLs that are not linked anywhere.
Some URLs are private by design, so I think it would be an awfully bad idea to discover new URLs in this way.
Also if a user follows a link from such page, the URL would be leaked via Referer header so it is not secure anyway.
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And here I was thinking that it was Apple and the iPhone that effectively killed Flash. Silly me.
They disliked flash for different reasons. Google for search and apple because flash games were too powerful, jobs wanted those games turned into iPhone apps. The offical reasons were speed and security, which was obviously a farce since all the major browser vendors wrote their own PDF viewers which is both slow and known for tons of security issues as well. They could have just as easily wrote their own fast and se…