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Google Chrome OS Announcement - Attack on MS/IE?

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Late last night Google announced that they are going to be releasing an open source operating system called "Google Chrome OS". According to their blog, they are going to be releasing the source code later this year and expect netbooks to come pre-installed with it in the later half of 2010.

It is really interesting is that they are touting their new operating system as "a natural extension of Google Chrome". Apparently they are taking a page out of Microsoft's book by tying the operating system directly in with the browser. Albeit, they do not have a monopoly on "Intel-based personal computers" but it sounds a lot like what Microsoft did in the late 90s.

I think the other reason for the closely shared name with the browser is they are blurring the lines between operating system and the Internet itself. They want people to think of their computer as being only the Internet and as such, have developed their "office suite" applications, and now operating system, as paralleled to the Internet as possible. Certainly they will have to offer offline access to the OS and applications (Gears?) and allow for other applications to be installed.

I wonder if people are going to call Google out on backtracking on their previous position of not planning to build an operating system. In April of 2008, Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, said "We don't have any plans to build an operating system."

Maybe they already had it built?


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Google and Yahoo Sitemaps

Related Categories: SEO, ColdFusion, Google

Sitemaps can be one of the more important, but often overlooked, things you can do to help search engines find all the pages in your site. While some people create them by hand or use a 3rd party sitemap generator, I prefer to use ColdFusion to generate them.

The code below has three variables that need to be set in the first three lines. You can use the code after "Other Page" to suit your specific situation especially if you need to list pages in a database.

I used this code to generate the sitemap for My Cool Backgrounds and you can view the sitemap here: http://www.mycoolbackgrounds.com/sitemap.xml. Be warned though, it has almost 10K urls and might take a minute to load.

After you have generated your sitemap, you can submit it to Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer. They both will accept the same format for the sitemap.


<cfset request.addy = "http://www.example.com/" />
<cfset request.root = "/www/example.com/public/" />
<cfset PageList = "main/about,category,contact" />

<cfset iCount = 1 />

<cfset theXML = XmlNew() />
<cfset theXML.urlset = XmlElemNew(theXML,"urlset") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlAttributes.xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" />

<!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Main Page:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount] = XmlElemNew(theXML,"url") />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].loc = XmlElemNew(theXML,"loc") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].loc.XmlText = "#request.addy#" />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].lastmod = XmlElemNew(theXML,"lastmod") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].lastmod.XmlText = DateFormat(Now(), "YYYY-MM-DD") />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].changefreq = XmlElemNew(theXML,"changefreq") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].changefreq.XmlText = "daily" />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].priority = XmlElemNew(theXML,"priority") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].priority.XmlText = ".9" />

<cfset iCount = incrementValue(iCount) />

<!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Other Pages:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
<cfloop index="txtItem" list="#PageList#">
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount] = XmlElemNew(theXML,"url") />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].loc = XmlElemNew(theXML,"loc") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].loc.XmlText = "#request.addy##txtItem#/" />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].lastmod = XmlElemNew(theXML,"lastmod") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].lastmod.XmlText = DateFormat(Now(), "YYYY-MM-DD") />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].changefreq = XmlElemNew(theXML,"changefreq") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].changefreq.XmlText = "daily" />

<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].priority = XmlElemNew(theXML,"priority") />
<cfset theXML.urlset.XmlChildren[iCount].priority.XmlText = ".8" />

<cfset iCount = incrementValue(iCount) />
</cfloop>

<cffile action="write" file="#request.root#sitemap.xml" output="#lcase(Trim(theXML))#" />
<h3>SiteMap Generated</h3>


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