Hungerford Web Design Blog

It’s started….according to the previous itteration of the Google Chrome user licence “any Content which you submit, post or display on or through” the browser is owned by Google.

Nice, that means I can now say that my blog is owned by Google :D, well one of the posts anyway.

Apparently it’s a boilerplate text which should have been modified but wasn’t. It’s been updated to reflect that users “retain copyright and any other rights” that they already hold on the content they submit or display using the browser.

Be careful what you agree to, it’s all part of Google’s plan to take over the world (insert evil laugh).

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Google have launched their new open-source browser as a windows beta, you can download Google Chrome now.

It’s currently only available to Windows users, imports IE settings if you wish and allows a very configurable interface for your search.

I’ve included some initial screenshots:

 More to follow shortly:
Download link: Link1

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Well, in our article “That is so not Cuil” we showed how a bunch of ex-Google employees got together to produce “Cuil” which they believe shows the way forward for search engines. Then along came Yahoo who have released BOSS (Build you Own Search Engine) which allows 3rd party developers to build apon a Yahoo api and produce their own search engines. The Cuil developers spent a great deal of time, effort and money producing Cuil, so what did Sam Pullara do? Well in short, the answer is in the name:

http:/www.4hoursearch.com

It took him 4 hours to write it, 4 hours to go from 0 to 20 hits/second and 4 hours to get the domain name.

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In June this year, Adobe and Google announced that Google would be reading and indexing Flash content. For years, Flash was shunned by SEO’s as it just wasn’t indexable (is that a word?). I can imagine that accessibility officianados have a healthy problem with flash as well. Flash as a single element to a site is a nice visual representation of content. 100% flash sites tend to be large, have little-no accessibility and force you to view the site one way and one way only..

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