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Google want everything ! | Rajat Poonia India

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Money is everything for Google ! It' true. Recently google did it again,after a long battle between Google and one of the developer of the add-on( Streamus). Streamus, the Chrome extension that turns YouTube into a serious music service, has been neutered by Google. The tiny extension made YouTube into a viable music service by offering a button in your browser for quickly building a queue of songs and playing them in the background. Sean Anderson , a 25 year old developer based in California bet everything on his tiny, but incredibly useful Chrome extension.  At first, the extension was picked up by a few friends but it quickly gained steam in January of 2014. credit:google Stramus image It was always somewhat questionable, because it played music in the background without the video that went with it — Anderson seemingly knew this, but had hoped he would one day be able to work something out with YouTube if it got big enough. It feels like something that Googl

Breadcrumbs in google are unclickable now 2015| Rajat Poonia India

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Breadcrumbs in google are unclickable now in search results Google seems to have dropped the feature to click on the breadcrumb links within the search results snippet. For example, here is an image of a snippet in the search results that displays the breadcrumb: You probably used markups or Google webmaster's Data Highlighter tool for showing breadcrumbs in SERP.They are great value to your website's search results as you get to put extra links to your website in it. Back at some point in time, clicking on store.apple.com or Apple Store or Shop iPhone would actually take you to the category specific pages versus the landing page of the top/main link in the Google search result. But; Google silently made the breadcrumbs in search results unclickable, turning them in to plain texts. Also Bing is not showing breadcrumbs at all.