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This is the exact reason that we had to introduce "og:title" into the Open Graph Protocol. http://ogp.me/ We tried our best to just use but is it so full of junk that it is unusable for Facebook stream stories.
As someone who has about 100 tabs open in Firefox at any given moment, I firmly believe that the description of page content must appear before the title of the website or any other SEO junk in the title. This is what I see in my Firefox tab bar right now: http://imagebin.org/128865 What does "Hacker..." tell me? Or "Timoth..."? On the other hand, "SQL Co..." at least lets me know the page is about SQL. Same goes for…
Perhaps other browsers should copy this.
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If anybody wants to know the punctuation symbol that "::" is, it's called Paamayim Nekudotayim, better known in programming as the scope resolution operator. PHP (because of its Israeli roots) calls it by the Hebrew name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator
Apologies for the pedantry I display below, but your comment is so full of errors that I got riled up. Again, apologies, I'm sure you were just trying to add interesting information for other hackers. '::' is not a punctuation symbol, at least not in English. It is two of the same symbol (colon) in succession. Now in Hebrew, it may be considered a single symbol (though a cursory google makes me think Paamayim Nekudot…
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What, Gruber used an overly selective example from Apple to prove some point while subtly asserting their superiority? No way!
Or, he just looked around at a few major website homepages, and used them as examples of decent titles. Gruber’s example did a fine job illustrating his point, I thought – I just found it interesting that even Apple, a company known for its fastidious care for such trivial details, has inconsistent titles across its sprawling website(s), and found the inconsistencies themselves interesting, because they illustrate sl…
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For my bookmarks bar, I remove the title. http://i.imgur.com/eRjJP.png
How do you accomplish this? Something like greasemonkey? Or a chrome plugin?
For bookmarks that you already have: right click, edit.
Trading an SEO advantage for a string to look better in the title bar and in bookmarks seems like a dumb trade.
Trading an SEO advantage for a string to look better in the title bar and in bookmarks seems like a dumb trade.
So how far will you go to screw up your users' experience? Where's the limit?