Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:

60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

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Is Google doing away with use of the meta description?

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Should I use underscores or hyphens in URLs?

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Which is more important: content or links?

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How can I make sure Google reaches my deeper pages?

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It is difficult to define what actually, so I left the video.

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In few minutes I had this:

gTranslator 0.0.1

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Google Chrome is not supported on Linux. The best web- browser ever is not supported on Linux and is very disappointing because Chrome has a complete Javascript Debugger and a very usefull console, besides it is very fast. Now, rumors says that they going to launch a version for Linux and Mac in mid 2008, I think we just have to wait.

Google Gadget Designer is very limited on Linux. I recently installed Google Gadget for Linux and I really like it, but the tool that Google give us to create gadgets in linux is ver poor, practically build this gadgets using gEdit is better than using the Google Gadget Designer.

Google Earth is too heavy on Linux. I can't complain because I have a powerfull PC, but anywasy Google Earth is very heavy when is running on Linux.

Google Talk is not supported on Linux. I could use Pidgin to use my Google IM service, but now Google Talk counts with video support and even for Messenger IM Service, Pidgin do not support Video.

The map of my country is very poor. The Google Map for Dominican Republic is very very poor and the developers like me can't use that service to create interactive applications related with address and stuff.

Google doesn't show the same results regardless of country. Perhaps this is a great feature for those developed countries like USA, Spain, UK... but for countries like the Dominican Republic and others is a big mistake because these regions have very little content worth.

Google Gadgets do not work properly in Linux. I do not know why but when the computer goes long without activity "Google Gadgets" is exploited.

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Google says that this new service will increase visits for your website.

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The Code
First of all, we need to check if the visitor came from google.com, in order to do this we are going to use the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] variable:

 if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])){
    if(stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],"google.com")!=false){ 
 
    }
 }

Then, we need to set some configuration vars:

 if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])){
    if(stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],"google.com")!=false){
        $bgcolor = '#FF0000';
        $wordcolor = '#FFFFFF';
	$weight = 'bold';
    }
 }

$bgcolor: the word's background color.
$bgcolor: the word's color.
$weight: bold or normal.

Separate the words form the url:
...
$keywords = explode("+",substr(strstr($url,"&q="),3,
strpos(substr(strstr($url,"&q="),3),"&")));
...

What do we have there?... Let's start with the explode() command. explode() is use to create an array from a string, the first argument is the "delimiter" and the second one is the "string" itself. Why "+", the plus symbol is the separator of the keywords that google use on the URL for a search. Here is an example: "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=david+tavarez&btnG=Search". Then just remove everything else but the keywords.

And the last step, highlight the words using "str_ireplace()" command:

...
 foreach($keywords as $word)
    $text = str_ireplace($word,"
      <span style="\">
 {$word}</span>",$text);
    $content =  $text; //The new content
...

And we got it!

Real world Examples
Now, lets see how we could use this code in the real world.

If you are a programmer I think you could use this code without problem, but if you are not... there are 2 examples:

Example #1 (Simulation)

Result:

Example Result

Example #2
If you are using a dynamic content, just put the code after the output command.

Complete Script
Just click here to download the complete code Highlight Google Keywords

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There are the times:

• Internet Explorer 8 (Beta): 0.003960132598877 seconds
• Google Chrome 0.3.154.9: 0.024035930633545 seconds
• Safari 3.1.2: 0.0054850578308105 seconds
• Firefox 3.0.4: 0.010277986526489 seconds
• Opera 9.62: 0.0075891017913818 seconds

Server Info: 

System: Windows NT SERVIDOR_LOCAL 5.1 build 2600
PHP: PHP Version 5.2.6
Web Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8h PHP/5.2.6 
Server Information: Pentium IV 3.00 GHz, 2.00 GB Ram

I'm a Google fan, but... it's clear, Internet Explorer 8 is faster than his enemies.

Internet Explorer 8

Google Chrome

Safari

Firefox 3.0.4

Opera

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