Google Chrome OS On Its Way From Google

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://cdn.baekdal.com/_img/2009/googleos0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="379" src="https://cdn.baekdal.com/_img/2009/googleos0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1438956712972201"; /* 160x600, homepage */ google_ad_slot = "8468377251"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; //--><br /> Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management at Google, and Linus Upson, a Google Engineering Director, posted details about the long-awaited Google Chrome OS yesterday on the Official Google Blog. Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android."Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems," wrote Pichai and Upson.<span class="fullpost"><br /><br /><br />"While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google," they added.<br /><br />Already, over 30 million people use the Google Chrome browser regularly, they noted.<br /><br />The Google Chrome Operating System, they explained, is a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome.<br /><br />"It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be," they declared. (The operating systems that browsers run on till now were designed in an era where there was no web, they noted.)<br /><br />Here is their summary of how the project will develop:<br /><br /> "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.<br /><br /> Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."<br /><br />Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips, added Pichai and Upson. And Google is working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year, they noted.</span><br /> <span class="fullpost"><br /></span></div>

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Does Spamming Search Engines?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://dev.bukkit.org/media/images/34/355/ServerToServer-4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="http://dev.bukkit.org/media/images/34/355/ServerToServer-4.png" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> I've just come across something that I would like to get some other opinions/debates on. Here's the situation:<br /> <br /> I have a site that's starting to do fairly well in the Search Engines. It's not incredible, but it's starting to get noticed and generate some traffic. I had a call from a user today who was having login/session problems. After talking with her for a little bit, I discover that she is going through a proxy server at her office to get to the site. The proxy server caches all site pages, then serves up the pages from cache instead of the live site. <span class="fullpost"><br /><br />So, by caching pages, it is also either:<br />1)caching cookies and all users going through this proxy have the same session cookie;<br /><br />OR<br /><br />2)not allowing cookies at all so that no users can have sessions on the site.<br /><br />Anyway, I found a simple way to outsmart the proxy (I'm programming in ColdFusion, btw). According to this article:<br /><br /> Quote:<br /> ...append a random number as a URL parameter in all links and in the ACTIONs of all forms, with the same name in all cases. This makes each user's request for the same page look different to the proxy server. CF can generate random integers from 1 to 100,000,000, so the risk that the same page will be requested with the same number by users on the same proxy server within the same week is extremely small.<br /><br />So, instead of page.cfm it would be page.cfm?N=123, or page.cfm?N=987123, or whatever. <br /><br />Now, to the reason I posted this thread. Aside from the fact that this seems like a "hack" to get around the proxy server, is this a good idea? What would something like this do to Search Engine rankings? Would they consider this Spamming? I mean, in theory you could literally have 100,000,000 copies of the exact same page indexed by the Search Engines. <br /><br />I can see where this might really, really, really help your rankings, or it might really, really, really hurt your rankings, or even get you banned. Or, would the search engines even notice?<br /><br />basically i'm doing exactly what session IDs in the URL will do. Creating thousands of duplicate URIs for any page.<br /><br />And it will do exactly the same for SEO as session IDs will. That is, cause potential problems with duplicates pages.<br />Yahoo especially has a problem and will deindex sites with this problem very quickly.<br /><br />That's what I thought, but I wanted to make sure. I figured that the duplicate pages would cause problems with some of the Search Engines.<br /><br />Hope This Helps!</span></div>

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