Making search engines forget queires

Is there a way to make Safari "forget" the queries I've made with search engines. For example, if I go to Google or Yahoo and start to type the word "magic," I immediately get a pop up menu that lists "macintosh" "macworld" "macconnection" "magnets" etc. with options of words I've searched before.
This doesn't happen with search engines when I use Internet Explorer as my browser, so I'm assuming this is a feature of Safari and NOT the search engines.
Clearing "history" doesn't take care of this annoyance, and I've looked through all the other preferences but can't find anything that would address this issue.
Help anyone?
Thanks!
Bryce

Open Safari's Preferences and click on AutoFill. Now click on Edit to the right of "Other Forms" and delete the entries for Google and Yahoo. This will clear the current lists. New ones will start forming unless you uncheck "Other Forms" which will also keep Safari from remembering what you type in other web pages as well.

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Hi All,
To make our client site search and display results by google / yahoo or any other search engine what needs to be done?
we kept "meta" tag keywords and description in all our html file and mastheaders.
What we need to do for making our site searchable by search engines ( like yahoo search and google search etc)?
Do we need to register with the search engine sites or search engine will search our site automatically by checking "meta" tags in our web pages.?
All our webpages are in KM.
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Hi Pradeep,
I havent tried this before, but would like to add my 2 cents to this topic.
I guess you could start by submitting your site to google - http://www.google.com/addurl/
Search engines rely on a lot more than just the meta tags and other header information. I guess Google relies on something called PageRank and also track backs in order to determine the relavance of your site to the search criteria.
You may also search for document related to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) but not sure if that would work.
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GLM

Making my website search engine friendly

Hi there
Hope somebody might be able to help me..
I am trying to make my website search engine friendly so that it lists the website, has a good ranking etc.
I have built my website with dreamweaver and some flash elements. I have used both flv content for streaming
video and swfs for information on certain pages.
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I gather that search engines don't read images. So I have used alternative text for most of the
images, which I gather search engines, such as google, can read.
I have also used page titles, inserted html head tag descriptions and keywords.
Is there anything else I can do to make my website more search engine friendly?
Somebody told me that I should try to have hidden paragraphs of text, because it is important
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Is is not enough that I have provided alt text for the images? Or should I include these hidden paragraphs of text..
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Sarah

Is is not enough that I have provided alt text for the images? Or
should I include these hidden paragraphs of text.. And if so, how?
Alt text is for web accessibility. Say your image doesn't load, alt="description" appears in the browser to give visitors some idea of what the missing image is. Similarly, Screen Readers express Alt text to people who cannot see images.
Will putting alt text on images improve your Google ranking? Not all by itself. Alt is no substitute for good old fashioned content inside HTML headings <h1> <h2> <h3>, paragraphs and lists.
Put keyword rich content on your site. Use Flash Object swapping to show Flash to people who have support for it. Everyone without Flash, including engines, screen readers and translators will get the HTML version. If JavaScript is disabled, both versions will display.
More on FlashObject swapping below:
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/
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www.alt-web.com/
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Making Flash Content Visible to Search Engines

When I was using Flash CS4, it published a HTML file that showed the text content of the movie, which made it easy for search engines to index the site. However, in Flash CS5.5, I notice it doesn't appear to do that anymore.
What do I do (step-by-step) to make my movie content visible to search engines?
Thanks!!

Create all the text content in HTML first.... then use swfobject for Flash detection to display the Flash if the visitor has Flash, regular HTML text if not.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
For reiew:
If you think that Flash is somehow bad for SEO, it's time to dispell that MYTH!
If fact, in some circumstances I'll use Flash INSTEAD of just HTML because then I'll have better SEO than with just HTML alone.
http://www.worldbarefootcenter.com/
The link to World Barefoot Center in the above post is just one example. View the source code and you see a couple paragraphs of text along with regular HTML links.... but what displays is the Flash version of the image and Flash links.
The client provided the artwork for the page... and that's what they wanted to use a .jpg image. Well yes, that could be done in HTML but it would be virtually invisible to Google. So Instead I converted the image into a Flash .swf and used swfobject to display the Flash. swfobject allows you to create alternate content inside the <div> which also holds the Flash .swf, then when the page is loaded it detects if the browser has the Flash pluggin. If it does, it displays just the Flash content, if not, it displays the alternate content. Since almost everyone has the Flash pluggin, for most people the Flash version of the <div> will display.
The alternate content for that <div> can be any regular HTML text, images, media player, links, etc., anything that you would use if you were not using the Flash. Now the best part is that the alternate content can be "over the top" as far as optimizing for SEO, since it will not be seen by most viewers.
Here's another example of SEO with Flash.. again, the page is just a single image provided by the client:
http://www.ksowetsuits.com/
View the source code. The alt content is paragraph after paragraph of information about the site, including lists and links. If it was just the HTML, it might be kind of a boring Home page. But for SEO I can go "over the top" in promoting the site, since most viewers will never see that part... but it's all indexed by search engines. The end result is BETTER SEO using Flash than just HTML.
On another Web site, a Flash video is displayed, the alt content is the complete text narration of the video. Now how many people would take the time to read that if they could just watch the video instead?? again, better SEO with Flash than without. In fact in one case we had first page search result from that video narration within 4 hours of posting the page.
On still another site with a Flash video, the alt content is another video, but a .mov version, which will, in effect play Flash video on the iPhone (not possible you say??). Well since the iPhone does not have Flash pluggin, it simply displays the .mov version of the video, while everyione else sees the Flash version.
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http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
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www.cidigitalmedia.com
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Are you willing to take the chance? And - why would you have
such a thing
so far out of the main content section anyhow?
It smacks of spamming, and if you were my competitor for
position, I'd
report you.
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> > Really, why would they do that? What's a better
method to promote your
> > site
> > more without having to bog your front page down
with information you
> > really
> > don't want to display?
>
> That's the point Google is making. If it's not content
you don't want
> people
> to see, then it must not be very legitimate or important
information.
>
> The main argument is that you could spam Google to rig
the search results.
> For instance:
>
> CocaCola.com
>
> <p>Welcome to Coke's web site</p>
> <p class="hiddenOffScreen">Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi
Pepsi Pepsi </p>
>
> So, searching for 'Pepsi' would return CocaCola.com
>
> I tend to agree completely with google here. If it's
viable/important
> content, put it on the page. It's a design issue, not an
HTML issue.
>
> -Darrel
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>
>
> Good point but does this really come up often enough for
it to be an
> issue?
>
> For all they know, I could have a button in the bottom
left hand part of
> my
> screen that if you rollover, it'll simply display that
hidden layer full
> of
> that text content.
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