Is the above image quiet familiar for you? Are you amongst those users who regularly use Google Chrome due to the multiple features that it carries yet are frustrated due to its irresponsible behavior with some websites? And, does the below line seems familiar?

Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome

One way out is referring to the Support Page created by Google. It will ask you to refresh your cache, scan your system for silly malwares, and delete unwanted cookies. But, I am pretty sure that all this just won’t solve your problem. Once you are done experimenting with different Google suggested methods then I will request you to try playing with the internal Google Chrome settings.

See the checkbox inside the bright red oval in the image above? Well, that is the key to unlock your lock. Go to (see image below) Tools > Options (which is Preferences on Mac) > Under The Hood Tab and uncheck the checkbox next to “Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance.” This will help Google Chrome load some of the websites that usually aren’t loaded and will also increase the website load time by very few microseconds (which you won’t notice).

Happy Chroming!!

This has happened before (here and here) since Google took over Feedburner and still Google didn’t learn anything of this? Just check the images below.

Lets see if this comes back up tomorrow.

This isn’t the first time when  Feedburner has  provided wrong stats for my feeds. Last time many big bloggers were hit when Google acquired feedburner and the RSS feed stats for most of them changed to zero!

Later on again the problem came up when many bloggers complained that their Google Reader stats were not being counted and this resulted in their feed stats falling down but luckily I was on the safer side in that second glitch.

Now it looks like Google had remembered that they had spared me the last time and so this time my feed burner stats have gone down by over a 100 just because my email subscribers aren’t being counted. Irritating and true!

Any of you face the same problem or is it just me?

I don’t know if this happened to everyone but yes it has happened to many and I am also the victim! I was shocked today to see that my Google Feedburner count is ZERO?

I have personally also registered to my feeds just to keep a check daily if the feeds are working and the feed seemed to work currently too. But I do not know what on earth Google has done that killed all my readers? Give me my readers back…please!

My current readers are ZERO and readers for comments are also ZERO. Yesterday they were 81 and 1 respectively!

It has been few days when I shifted to wordpress from blogger and I had the fear that I might loose my feedburner readers but thanks to labnol feedburner faq I did not loose even one of my readers!

But poof Google wont let me sleep tonight I guess! I hope they work on this very soon.

Did you also loose your readers? Do reply in comments.

UPDATE: 3 hours have passed since I wrote this article and Google seemed to have fixed the bug. I have my readers back. Living secondlife

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Tired searching for your search queries in Google.com? No I wont ask you to start using another search engine, just use another domain “XXXDISC.NET“. SearchEngineJournal has a mention of this website xxxdisc.net which takes you to the Google homepage and you can easily do the normal searches as you perform in Google.

The search results are same and the page also looks to be almost same. The author doest not seems to run any malicious script with this page. It just seems that he used some tricky programming to get data out of Google pages and let users do Google search from his website until he actually comes up with real content for the site. And you can understand what the real content will be with that name xxxdisc.net! Even the same Google Ads are being displayed in this website as displayed in Google.com.

The only thing which makes me curious is how come Google left a hole that anyone can easily create mirrors of there search engine in any domain. I would love to hear the explanations.

Looks like Google needs to buy more laptop memory.