Comments on: Google Toolbar

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:25:40 +0000

Aussies LOVE beetroot – we put it (pickled) in hamburgers, sandwiches, salads – it’s Beautiful!!!!! (but only pickled).

Only downside is it’s ability to ruin anything it touches with it’s stain.

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:00:47 +0000

Robert,

Half of our readers (47%) have “Unknown” browsers. I made an assumption that “unknown browsers” are distributed similarly to “known browsers” – maybe that’s a bad assumption.

17.3% of total browsers (~1/3 of known browsers) are either IE5 or IE6.
13.1% of total browsers are firefox or mozilla derivatives.

Then we have opera, safari, lynx and konqueror, plus robots

Scott

By: chris

chris — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:12:56 +0000

Beetroot, Darren are we alowed to ask what you are doing with bbetroot hmm? sounds like some super duper Aussi blogging trick for traffic. Any tips for us americans?

By: Robert Oschler

Robert Oschler — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:04:11 +0000

Scott,

Are you saying the majority of your readers use FireFox or some other non-IE browser. That’s amazing!

By: Scott Sehlhorst

Scott Sehlhorst — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:49:27 +0000

I’m actually pretty stoked. About 30% of our readers use IE6 or IE5. Some very small percentage of people even know what RSS is, and we have minimal feedburner subscription rates – most of our readers bookmark the site.

We just set up a custom button for the new toolbar. The button allows users to see the RSS feed entries, and also allows them to search our site with the google toolbar. We have a link on the site now that makes it trivial to add the Tyner Blain custom button to the new toolbar.

Now the non-RSS folks will be able to quickly jump to recent posts and search the site. We use WP, and jeromes-keywords plugin, so people can now do keyword search of our site via google’s toolbar.

It is a bummer that it isn’t universal (yet) – but I’m sure it will be. And we’ll be there when the other browsers/OS show up. Windows users outnumber Mac+Linux by 10 to 1 for our readers too.

Thanks again for a great blog, Darren!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:00:42 +0000

you do not seriously eat beatroots… do you?

By: feedbuzzard | Maximize your adsense earnings

feedbuzzard | Maximize your adsense earnings — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:32:42 +0000

Actually, this is one toolbar I’d like to try, with the server-side bookmarks, but I use firefox, so I’ll have to wait…