Google just completed a domain transfer to another company in China. The interesting part is that this domain transfer is for free. The story begins with a recent tweet from the CEO Dash Huang of a Chinese game company called X.D. Network Inc who claims that they obtained the domain name taptap.cn from Google for free.From the tweet, Mr. Huang expressed his appreciation to Google for freely transferring the domain name taptap.cn to their company. Their company launched some product called taptap which is a game lookup community and they were trying to register the domain name bu...

Google has announced its plan to block mixed content downloads in Chrome in February 2020 and now the day to block mixed content downloads is coming soon as we are nearing October when Chrome 86 is supposed to be released.What is mixed content downloads? According to Google, it is non-HTTPS downloads started on secure pages. For example, if you access a page called https://example.com/download, and in this page, there is a download link to http://download.example.com/something, this download link will not work.This is a security measure from Google to improve security of downloa...

It seems Google is slowly releasing a new feature to highlight search text when user opens a matching search result link through its search engine. Now for example if you type something in the Google search bar, you will see normal search results.But when you click the link, e.g, the first search result to Stackoverflow, you will see something like below after the link is opened.The searched text is highlighted and the page automatically scrolls to the position where the search text appears. This change is to enable users to find what s/he wants to search quickly and hence improve th...

Most of us should already be aware that Google has updated their algorithm. The new algorithm is called BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) and has made at least a couple of modern-day SEO experts scratching their heads trying to figure out what it means. The good news is that there have been no major changes enough to make SEO experts change their strategies drastically. This means that all of the linking and keyword researching techniques remain the same and will do so in the foreseeable future. What has changed is probably the salaries of copywriters, as...

Google has been working very hard to make it possible for syncing clipboard data among PC and Android devices through Chrome. This feature is finally available in Chrome Canary 79 and is going to be released in future version of Chrome although it only supports sync data from PC to Android but not vice versa.But before getting to that day, users can start to explore this feature in latest Chrome Canary version 79. There are three flags(chrome://flags) to control enablement of the feature.Enable receiver device to handle shared clipboard featureEnable shared clipboard feature signals to be...

Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man...

Microsoft has announced recently that their Edge browser will abandon its own kernel and switch to use Google Chromium. This by no means indicates that Microsoft admitted it lost the war against Google on browser.For Microsoft, making such a decision is certainly not easy, but it is absolutely a wise decision. After all, the market share of both parties are not at the same competing level anymore.According to NetMarketShare's statistics, Chrome's market share in desktop world has reached 67.29%, an increase of 11% over the previous month, and an increase of 5.88% compared to a year ago.From th...