Both Matt Cutts and Matt my roommate have recently been caught by useless bookmark keywords. Matt_1 wrote, in a list of things he didn't like about Chrome, 'If I start typing "Google webmaster blog" into the Omnibox, it offers to search Google for "webmaster blog"'. Matt_2 asked me how timeanddate.com managed to grab all queries starting with "time", thinking it was a vulnerability of some sort.
I believe both of these were caused by importing search keywords from Firefox. In at least the latter case, Matt_2 was unaware that the "time" keyword even existed on his Firefox (I think it might have been part how Firefox was installed on his computer?). In both cases, the UI for managing these keywords was hidden enough that they couldn't find it. (I couldn't even find it myself when Matt_2 asked me about it... the button is labeled "searches" or something, which is not at all what I as looking for. I knew to right-click on the omnibox but that isn't at all obvious.) So, for discussion: 1) is importing keywords harmful? (I am pretty certain "ask the user more questions when importing" *is* harmful.) 2) how can we surface the fact that you can edit those keywords? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
