I'm curious. Where did you expect to see bookmark keywords? Where did you look first?
-Scott On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
