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I'm doing a bit of research for some folks at Google who have expressed concern that Google Chrome and Drupal don't play nice together. Does anyone have any information about that? I found a thread from about a year ago. Is this still a problem for anyone?

http://drupal.org/node/311406

There's a random comment in there about clients not able to create content. Has anyone else seen this problem?

There are a few others related to javascript problems but they seem to have been patched. Read more »

On March 12th at Pubcon, I had the privilege of interviewing Matt Cutts for our video series called How I Use Twitter. Here are the notes:

User: Matt Cutts
Company: Google
Title: the head of Google's Webspam team
iPhone client: TwitterPhone
Follows: About 100 People
Followers: About 17,000 (as of March 12, 2009)
Using since: mid-2008
PC Client: Twitter.com
URL Shortener: Bit.ly
Tweets Out: 6-7 per day
Time spent: Not much.

Quote: “It’s just like a river. If something interesting comes by you can pick it, pass it on, reply to it, and if you’re too busy, it’s OK and nobody is going to be offended by that.”

Tip: Keep your tweet 14 characters short of the max so that people can easily retweet it. (Ben adds: Add up the characters in your Twitter username and then add 5 and that should be enough for a retweet. So, for benfinklea, it would be 10 + 5 = 15. RT @benfinklea )

OK, so this post is about 2 weeks late but I get this question enough to go ahead and post it now: Google has officially removed the line between "regular" results and the dreaded supplemental index. See this post on the Google Webmaster Blog where they say: Read more »