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The Savings on Bing cashback are “Endless”

Dan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:41:00 +0000

Bing cashback is now offering cashback from another one of your favorite merchants: Endless.com. You can get 30% cashback for a limited time on everything on Endless using Bing cashback.

Looking to buy some hot new boots for the winter or want a great deal on that handbag for the holidays? Head over now to Bing.com!

To get the savings, you simply search for “Endless shoes” and look for the Bing cashback coin.

After you click on the Endless link, you can make your purchase directly on their site and qualify for Bing cashback.

The Bing cashback team is excited to welcome Endless to our growing family of prominent merchants. We hope that this makes your Bing shopping experience even more rewarding. And to make redeeming your rewards even easier you can now get your cashback credited to your Amazon Payment account!

Happy Shopping!

Raju Malhotra – Director, Bing

Verifying a Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:40:03 +0000

Webmaster Level: All

You may have seen our recent announcement of changes to the verification system in Webmaster Tools. One side effect of this change is that blogs hosted on Blogger (that haven’t yet been verified) will have to use the meta tag verification method rather than the “one-click” integration from the Blogger dashboard. The “Webmaster Tools” auto-verification link from the Blogger dashboard is no longer working and will soon be removed. We’re working to reinstate an automated verification approach for Blogger hosted blogs in the future, but for the time being we wanted you to be aware of the steps required to verify your Blogger blog in Webmaster Tools.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

In Webmaster Tools
1. Click the “Add a site” button on the Webmaster Tools Home page
2. Enter your blog’s URL (for example, googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com) and click the “Continue” button to go to the Manage verification page
3. Select the “Meta tag” verification method and copy the meta tag provided

In Blogger
4. Go to your blog and sign in
5. From the Blogger dashboard click the “Layout” link for the blog you’re verifying
6. Click the “Edit HTML” link under the “Layout” tab which will allow you to edit the HTML for your blog’s template
7. Paste the meta tag (copied in step 3) immediately after the element within the template HTML and click the “SAVE TEMPLATE” button

In Webmaster Tools
8. On the Manage Verification page, confirm that “Meta tag” is selected as the verification method and click the “Verify” button

Your blog should now be verified. You’re ready to start using Webmaster Tools!

Posted by Jonathan Simon, Webmaster Trends Analyst

Original post: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/amDG/~3/k5rfSAc18mM/verifying-blogger-blog-in-webmaster.html

One million video views!

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:41 +0000

This year we’ve been making and posting videos on an official webmaster video channel, and earlier today we hit our one millionth video view. Making these little movies has been a ton of fun and we’ve covered dozens of topics for site owners.

We decided to celebrate in a couple ways. First, we added captions to all 150+ videos (over 11 hours of information). That’s important because for movies with captions, you can translate the captions into different languages. Now if you want to watch my videos but see the captions in Portuguese or German or Turkish, you can!

The second way we celebrated is with a fun video. As you may know, I recently lost a bet with my team and they shaved off all my hair. Click to see the 30 second explanation of why I’m bald. But you may not know that my team recorded a video as I lost my hair. Now you can watch and laugh along too:

I hope that you enjoy the video! You may want to subscribe to the webmaster video channel to see more free webmaster videos in the future.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-webmaster-videos/

Happy Diwali for 2009!

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:34 +0000

Hey everybody, I just wanted to wish you a Happy Diwali! I hope that everyone has a wonderful festival of lights. It’s a good time today for introspection and reflection on the past year, and for hope for the year to come. Whether you celebrate with firecrackers, sweets, or appreciation for what you hold to be good and true–I hope you have a wonderful Diwali!

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/happy-diwali-for-2009/

Learn more about robots.txt

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:19 +0000

We made a video about how Google handles the robots.txt file. You can watch it if you want:

This answers a couple questions such as:
- Why is my url showing up in Google when I blocked it in robots.txt? Did you fetch that url?
- How do I make that url disappear from Google?

I hope the video helps if you have questions.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/robots-txt-remove-url/

Where have you been in the USA or world?

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:14 +0000

Googler Douwe Osinga has a great personal project that demonstrates the Google Chart API. Just by clicking a few boxes, you can make an image to show the countries (or states in the USA) that you’ve been to. Here’s where I’ve been in the United States:

Clearly I need to do a trip across the northern part of the country. If you run a website, the Google Chart API is a great/free way to add pretty charts to your website or dashboard easily. You can even make google-o-meters

and QR codes

in addition to maps:

If you haven’t tried out the Chart API, give it a whirl sometime; it’s pretty easy.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/create-map-api/

Disclosure

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:01:08 +0000

I was glad to see that the FTC unanimously approved new guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials. The updated guidelines affirm the principle that material connections behind endorsements should be disclosed. This seems like a great time to offer my own disclosure information.

I am currently an employee of Google. I receive a salary from them and I also own Google stock and options.

Other than compensation from Google, I don’t accept any money or other gifts of value from any companies or individuals. I don’t accept speaking fees, consulting fees, honoraria, or trips. I don’t accept free, discounted, or loaned products. When I receive unsolicited gifts of value from companies or individuals in the scope of work, I give away those gifts.

When I speak at a conference or event, I generally do not pay a registration fee for that event. Some conferences also waive registration fees for that event for one or more of my colleagues or a traveling companion. Either my company or I pay my own travel and hotel expenses when I speak at an event.

I do not run advertisements or otherwise receive any monetary compensation from the operation of my website.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/

BusinessWeek articles on Google

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:53 +0000

A few weeks ago we had a visitor at the Googleplex: Rob Hof, the Silicon Valley bureau chief at BusinessWeek. Rob talked to a bunch of Googlers and sat in on one of our weekly quality-leads meetings. The resulting story is out now. The first part of the story covers some of the challenges facing Google, but the second part gets into more detail than we normally get into.

What’s even more interesting is that BusinessWeek put up transcripts of some of the interviews. You can read interviews with:

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO
Udi Manber, vice-president of engineering and head of the search quality group
Amit Singhal, head of Google’s core ranking team in the search quality group
Scott Huffman, head of the group that evaluates quality in the search quality group
me (Matt Cutts). I’m the head of the webspam team in the search quality group

Org-chart-wise, it looks like this:

Eric Schmidt would be at the top of the cloud, Udi would be the “Search Quality” box, I’d be in the webspam box, and Amit and Scott lead teams within the “Other groups” part.

The two interviews I liked the most were Amit’s and Scott’s. Amit sums up Google’s philosophy toward real-time, he discusses our pragmatic (yet algorithmic) approach to search, and our attitude toward our users:

Q: I think the criticism is: Where’s the money in those [non-search/ads parts of Google]?

A: The right way to look at it is not the money. Is there value to the users? If you bring value to the users, I think we will succeed in the long run. Some things make more money than others, but as long as we keep bringing value to the world, we will be successful.

I liked Scott’s interview because he goes into more detail of how we evaluate search quality than I’ve seen in the past. Evaluating search quality is really hard to get right. I also liked this quote:

But the other thing we always do is we go in and look in more detail at what are some of the individual positive and negative things that we’re getting out of this. Are the positive things really that positive, will they really make a difference to our users? And maybe more important, for the negative things, how important are they, can we live with them?

At the entrance to Google’s main cafe, there’s three doors. Two are normal doors that you pull to open, and they always work. The other door is a spiffy automatic door that slides open for you–except that the automatic door seems to be broken about 5-10% of the time. When the automatic door works, it’s very cool and you’d definitely prefer to use it. But when the door is broken, you’re left standing in front of a glass door and you feel like a dork as you wave your hands, move around, and generally try to get the “automatic” door to open for you. I’ve noticed that many people stopped using the sometimes-broken automatic door and instead always go straight to the reliable doors.

Search can be kind of like that door in a lot of ways. Spiffy features are great, but if they’re wrong or don’t trigger in some reasonable way that your mind can predict, the failure is worse somehow. The same holds true with the organic search results: a catastrophic search failure can stick in your mind much more than the 200 searches that worked well. Search quality evaluation is tricky because you need to take that factor plus hundreds more into account. It’s taken years for Google to really evaluate our quality well, and we still continue to learn important new things.

If you really want to understand more about how Google thinks, I highly recommend Amit’s and Scott’s interviews. They’re a great reminder to me that we have a very deep bench of smart, well-spoken people in the search quality group and in Google in general. I would love to see more Googlers talking about their work.

And finally, on the subject of Googlers talking about their work, a whole bunch of Googlers will be at the Search Marketing Expo East in New York this week. Joachim Kupke will talk about duplicate content, Ari Bezman will talk about maps, Jack Menzel will talk about what’s next in search and universal search, Jeremy Hylton will talk about real-time search, Maile Ohye will talk about best practices for search, Matthew Liu will talk about YouTube, and Frederick Vallaeys will answer questions about AdWords.

Also, don’t miss Bruce Johnson and Kathrin Probst from Google. They’ll be on the “CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 & SEO” panel. If you’re at SMX East, I think you’ll enjoy that panel.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/businessweek-articles-on-google/

30 day challenge for October: No Microsoft Software

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:40 +0000

In September I didn’t do a 30 day challenge because, frankly, I had a lot of work that I really needed to crunch through at the Googleplex and I didn’t have much spare time. But October is a new month, and so it’s time for a new 30 day challenge.

For October, I’m not going to use any Microsoft software. No Microsoft operating systems (WinXP, Vista, or Windows 7) and no Microsoft Office allowed. I will continue to use their keyboards, because they make very nice keyboards, and I will allow myself to use their websites–sometimes I need to do a query on Bing to test how well they do, for example.

I don’t plan to switch to Apple, although I might try a Mac for a week. Apple products are polished and usable, so why not switch to Apple? That would be a much longer blog post. Apple makes great design decisions for the majority of people, but if you don’t like a particular decision, it can be very difficult to change it. Have you ever wanted to see the exact time (including seconds) on an iPhone? It’s hard to do, and I’m that kind of guy. Another big reason is just that I’m huge believe in free and open-source software, and I want to support that sort of software.

So on Friday I installed Ubuntu on my Windows XP laptop. On Saturday, I downloaded all the data from my pedometer (the software only runs in Windows) and shut down my home Windows XP machine. I already had a machine running Ubuntu at home, but I managed to get it driving two out of my three monitors:

What have I learned so far? The current version of Ubuntu (called “Jaunty Jackalope”) is really quite nice. There’s a lot of polish to the UI and the day-to-day tasks work very smoothly. At the same time, it’s possible to tinker around with something so much (I’m thinking about fonts right now) that you mess things up. But the dev version of Chrome for Linux has been really fast and stable, even though Chrome for Linux isn’t officially supported yet. I spend a large chunk of each day in a web browser, so having Chrome as an option was critical.

I’ll let you know how the 30 days turns out, but right now I’m optimistic.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/30-days-no-microsoft-software/

Search Quality > Politics

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:31 +0000

[I wrote this in January 2008 but never posted it. I think people might still want to read this, so I'm posting it now.]

In an election year, everybody gets a little more sensitive about politics, so I wanted a write a pre-emptive post in case anyone accuses Google of political bias in our search results sometime this year.

This is my personal opinion, but in my way of looking at the world, search quality > politics. That is, preserving the quality and accuracy of our search results is the best way we can help our users, while skewing our search algorithms to espouse a particular political party’s viewpoint would be anathema. This month I finish my eighth year at Google and begin my ninth (geez, I’m old), and in that entire time I can’t remember even the tiniest suggestion to bias Google’s search results toward any political party. The trust of our users is important, and in my opinion it would be an abuse of that trust to skew our search results toward any particular political view. I suspect that if you checked with old-timers at other search engines, they’d say similar things.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-search-and-politics/

Studying a study

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:13 +0000

[A couple things to note: 1. This is a purely personal blog post--like other blogs posts I do, I haven't run it by anyone else at Google. 2. I'm writing it quickly because I have a lot of work to do. If I get something wrong, please let me know and I'll correct it.]

This morning I saw an article in the New York Times with the headline Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking:

ABOUT two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers — and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new survey from professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.

So naturally I clicked to see who the co-authors were. One of the study’s co-authors was Chris Jay Hoofnagle. Hoofnagle has served as the Senior Counsel and Director of the West Coast Office
of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). You haven’t heard of EPIC? EPIC was the group that in 2004 argued that Gmail should be shut down: “In a letter sent to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Monday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center argued that Gmail must be shut down because it ‘represents an unprecedented invasion into the sanctity of private communications.’ ”

I can guess what you’re saying. “That was five years ago. People didn’t know then how useful Gmail was going to be.” Okay, then did you know that EPIC lobbied the government to shut down Google Apps earlier this year? Here’s the article from March 2009:

A privacy advocacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to pull the plug on Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and the company’s other Web apps until government-approved “safeguards are verifiably established.”

If the FTC grants the request, hundreds of millions of Internet users would be unable to access their e-mail or documents until the agency’s formidable collection of lawyers in Washington, D.C., became satisfied with the revised applications. The outage would extend to businesses that pay for access to Google Apps.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center submitted the far-reaching request to the FTC in a letter from its director, Marc Rotenberg, on Tuesday.

Most people know that the choice of questions in an study can make a huge difference to the outcome. To fully inform the people who read the study, do I wish Chris Jay Hoofnagle had mentioned his connection to EPIC in the paper’s bio section? Yeah, I kinda do. At least when I checked Techmeme, not a single story mentioned Hoofnagle as a Principal Investigator on the grant and co-author on the study, or Hoofnagle’s connections with EPIC.

I’m sure that EPIC has done plenty of fine work to improve privacy on the web. I certainly disagree with some of their opinions: EPIC may have wanted to shut down Gmail five years ago and wanted to shut down Google Apps earlier this year, but I believe that would be a bad idea. I don’t think a majority of people want their Gmail or Google Apps accounts shut down by the government. And maybe this most recent study will be received as completely impartial–but I wish that Hoofnagle’s connections to EPIC had been disclosed in the bio section.

Don’t get me wrong. I welcome criticism of Google (or other companies’ practices) from all corners of the web. From that criticism it’s important to look for ways to improve. People love (and hate) Google enough to give us passionate criticism, and I truly appreciate the feedback. It’s when Google’s features and products are greeted with indifference or apathy that I’ll really be worried.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/studying-a-study/

Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:04 +0000

We went ahead and did this post on the official Google webmaster blog to make it super official, but I wanted to echo the point here as well: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in our web search.

To this day, you still see courts mistakenly believe that meta tags occupy a pivotal role in search rankings. We wanted to debunk that misconception, at least as it regards to Google. Google uses over two hundred signals in our web search rankings, but the keywords meta tag is not currently one of them, and I don’t believe it will be.

In addition to the official blog post, we made a video as well:

I hope this clarifies that the keywords meta tag is not something that you need to worry about, or at least not in Google.

Original post: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-search/

Visiting the U.S. shouldn’t be this hard

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:20:00 +0000

The onerous restrictions on travel imposed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks aren’t just a nuisance to law-abiding vacationers tired of separating out their liquids and taking off their shoes at interminable airport security lines. The additional hoops that international visitors must now jump through to enter the country are continuing to harm America’s image around the world.

A growing chorus of voices is suggesting that America’s inhospitable face to foreigners may have cost Chicago the 2016 Olympic Games. Among them is the U.S. Travel Association, which promotes visitation to and within the United States.

Citing a comment by an International Olympic Committee member who found entering the U.S. “a rather harrowing experience,” U.S. Travel Association President Roger Dow issued a release saying, “We need to take seriously the challenge of reforming our entry process to ensure there is a welcome mat to our friends around the world, even as we ensure a secure system.”

Almost immediately after 9/11, the Bush administration began requiring visitors from all but 28 (mostly European) countries to submit their fingerprints and photographs to obtain a visa. Since then, the number of countries exempted from these regulations has been expanded to 35, but visitors from the rest of the world must still pay a “visa application fee” (usually $131) and wait as long as 90 days for processing.

“The presumption in the law is that every visitor visa applicant is an intending immigrant,” according to the State Department. Therefore, tourists from those countries must prove that they do not plan to stay in the U.S. indefinitely.

If the bigwigs who sit on the International Olympic Committee find travel to the U.S. “harrowing,” the average foreign tourist must be positively bewildered. In personally pleading Chicago’s case for the Olympics, President Obama said “one of the legacies I want to see is a reminder that America at its best is open to the world.”

Are restrictions on travel, both domestic and international, undermining that legacy? Post your thoughts in the comments section.

— John Rosenthal

John Rosenthal is a frequent contributor to Bing Travel based in Santa Monica, Calif.

Original post: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/travel/archive/2009/10/22/visiting-the-u-s-shouldn-t-be-this-hard.aspx

Windows 7 Launch Features Bing Maps

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:40:18 +0000

Today’s a big day for us Microsofties – the launch of our latest operating system, Windows 7 marks a new era in desktop computing and some exciting times for Bing Maps. As mentioned in my Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Features Virtual Earth blog post, Virtual Earth (now named Bing Maps) is onboard the multi-touch PCs natively as the Microsoft Surface Globe application.

The Multi-touch pack comes with a whole suite of applications which you can check out here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/whats-the-microsoft-touch-pack-for-windows-7. if you want a Windows 7 Multi-touch PC with Bing Maps, here’s a list of PC manufacturers for you to choose from.

OEM	Model	Platform	Form Factor	Technology
Acer	Aspire AS5738PG	Notebook	Clamshell	Capacitive
Acer	Aspire Z5610	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Asus	Eee PC T91	Netbook	Netbook	Resistive
Dell	Studio One 19	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Dell	Latitude XT2	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
Fujitsu	Lifebook T4310	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
Fujitsu	Lifebook T4410	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
Fujitsu	LifeBook 5010	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
Fujitsu	DeskPower F Series	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Gateway	Gateway One ZX4800	Desktop	AIo	Optical
HP	TouchSmart 600t	Desktop	AIO	Optical
HP	TouchSmart 300z	Desktop	AIO	Optical
HP	TouchSmart TX2	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
HP	TouchSmart dx9000	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Lenovo	ThinkPad X200	Notebook	Tablet	Capacitive
Lenovo	ThinkPad T400	Notebook	Clamshell	Capacitive
Medion	X9613	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Sony	VAIO L	Desktop	AIO	Optical
Toshiba	Satellite U505	Notebook	Clamshell	Capacitive
Toshiba	Satellite M505	Notebook	Clamshell	Capacitive

If you want more details on the Windows 7 release, I suggest you check out the Windows Blog.

CP – Follow me on Twitter @ChrisPendleton

Original post: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/maps/archive/2009/10/22/windows-7-launch-features-bing-maps.aspx

Bring a little Bing to your Windows 7 desktop

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:40:08 +0000

Congratulations go out to the Windows 7 team on today’s launch – it’s a great product!

And to show our support for Windows 7, I’m excited to announce our first ever downloadable wallpaper theme for Windows 7 – Bing’s Best. A lot of people ask us for desktop versions of our images. And now you (and your friends, and your family, and your casual acquaintances) can get them!

The homepage team selected the top images from June, July, and August, and then worked with the Windows 7 personalization team to create a theme pack featuring these 20 gorgeous wallpapers:

The theme is now available via the Windows Personalization Gallery.

You can also get Bing right in your Windows 7 Windows Explorer. See how to integrate Bing into Windows 7 in three minutes or less to find out how!

Enjoy!

Stephanie Horstmanshof

Editorial lead

I don’t get Google Wave

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:30 +0000

Thought I’d quickly stick something up before I went away, in hope that I’ll get some responses whilst I’m away over the weekend.

I’ve been using Google Wave for a while now, as I was in the first round of invites, and the developer preview before that… but I say using in the loosest sense of the word, as I can’t actually find a use for it. It may be simply because barely anyone is on it yet, but nothing has struck me as a clear purpose.

That’s not to say I don’t like it, it’s a great application and it’s technologically outstanding. Features like drag and drop photo uploading and live typing are incredibly impressive, but I feel like I’m missing the point. I feel like I’m not using it properly, or that I’m expecting the wrong things from it.

What is Google Wave, and why should I be using it? I’d love to know what you all think!

P.s. Thank you to everyone who downloaded the Twitter extension yesterday, including the Googlers… I assume some of the Chrome team.

Original post: I don’t get Google Wave

Google Chrome Twitter Extension: TweetPage

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:26 +0000

I’ve just written another Google Chrome extension, this time a little more complex. It’s a Twitter ‘Tweet This Page’ extension, much like the many available bookmarklets, except this one allows you to tweet directly from within the extension, without leaving the site you’re on to go to twitter.com. You’ll need to log into Twitter the first time you use it, but after that, simply click the button, alter the tweet as you desire, and submit.

You can download the extension here, automatic updates are enabled, so you should get new versions as and when I put them up. Please be aware that this extension is quite rough around the edges, (and quite spectacularly ugly,) so please let me know if you manage to break it!

If you choose to use the extension, please let me know, either by commenting below… or by tweeting this page!

Original post: Google Chrome Twitter Extension: TweetPage

Chrome NoFollow extension updated

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:20 +0000

As a quick follow up to my nofollow marker post, I’ve put up a new version of the extension. It does exactly the same job as the old one, except without the need for any JavaScript. The new extension simply uses the following CSS:

a[rel~=nofollow] { background-color: #FCC !important; border: 1px dashed #F55 !important; color: #600 !important; }

I should really have thought of that in the first place! Want the extension? Download it here.

Original post: Chrome NoFollow extension updated

Googling for strange things

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:10 +0000

Wade and I have been fairly actively blogging for a few weeks now, and every so often, we check analytics and webmaster tools accounts for what keywords people have used to find our sites. Finding out that he ranked number one for “anti-gravity mice” has caused Wade to go on a bit of a rampage to rank for the weirdest terms he can. Including, but not limited to:

Anti-Gravity Mice
Dutch Penis
Penis Chandelier

His next attempt is for Swedish Sperm Bank Lesbians, but I want to know if I can make him rank for “croatian camel herding scallywag“, just by linking to him. If not, I should at least pop up amongst the other 303 results.

Original post: Googling for strange things

Google Chrome Extension: nofollow marker

Dan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:39:07 +0000

I was just playing about with Google Chrome’s extension system, and threw together a very simple one that highlights all nofollow links in pink, as I’d seen a few people using something similar in Firefox. It doesn’t do anything complex, the code is as follows:

var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('a'); var length = elements.length - 1;

for(var i = length; i >= 0; i--) { if(elements[i].getAttribute('rel') && elements[i].getAttribute('rel').indexOf('nofollow') >= 0) { elements[i].className += ' nofollow_has_no_follow'; } }

Google Chrome Dev Channel users can Download and Install it now.

Original post: Google Chrome Extension: nofollow marker