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Before Microsoft got into the rumble with Live
Search and Bing there were only two fighters in
the search ring. Google and Yahoo.
It's interesting to look in the past to see how
the two companies have changed and evolved through
the years. And how each company's evolution has
led to the current state of the market.
The reason I bring this up today is that Yahoo
is rolling out their site redesign. This will
mark the eighth time that Yahoo has decided to
change their layout. How many times has Google
changed their front page?
Here is where the different company evolutions
comes into play. Google to me has stood by the
'tried-and-true' philosophy at least
when it comes to design. Yahoo on the other hand
has changed their design every two years or so
since it's inception. I wonder which mind set
paid off.. ;)
If you're curious, here's a list of the different
design changes Yahoo has seen through the years:
1994
-- 1995
-- 1997
-- 2000
-- 2002
-- 2004
-- 2006
-- 2009
It's obvious that there's more to the search market
besides design, but perhaps it's an element we've
overlooked. Could it be that when it comes to
searching the web that people prefer a constant
look, compared to an evolving look? How much credit
do you give the design choices
of both Google and Yahoo when discussing the search
engine market?
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Cloud on the horizon
Seriously, I'm worried about the cloud.
I live in a remote location where broadband connection speeds are a small fraction of that available in the nearest city, 150 miles distant. Economies of scale have made this so, it always was (telephone dialup was erratic and expensive) and it always waz be (to loosely quote a forgotten comedy). Technological advances will provide greater and greater facilities and speed of access but only for a percentage of the more advantaged parts of the world.
My point is that whatever wonders you make or aim to provide in the virtual world, you have to deliver them through real world technology.
Lean mean software and fast internet lead me into a contract a number of years ago and so this story: A major event used the internet for promotion (there's a novelty) and I was employed to make a text only information site primarily for the press. Several other contractors were employed to create the public, all singing - all dancing site. Flash animation, videos, games, a forum, music, downloads...
The public site was fantastic to play with. All the developers played with it over the LAN every time they had a break. When the site was launched > 95% of all visitors ended up visiting and revisiting the text only site. No-one wanted to wait.
Now the cloud. Why would I want my data, software and processing out there somewhere? Who wants to wait? The hardware will develop, software will progress, formats will improve and, for a lot of you, connectivity will accelerate. For me, and millions like me, I think I'd rather play, save, edit, view, copy and delete NOW.
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http://www.peanutcafe.com/
I'm new and am really enjoying all the things I'm learning on this forum.
We've just launched our site a few months ago, and I am looking for some feedback on the site. I'm am really curious to know what this forum thinks.
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Hosting Issues
PHP, PDO and pear hoster
Background: Apache
server question: Configuration and PHP pear question.
(post #19).
I am looking for a cheap (compared to Norwegian prices) reliable hoster for my new site socioalnorway.com
Requirements:
1. File manager, php.ini (access) and cPanel or better solutions.
2. Fast upgrade to new versions of PHP, pear and PDO.
3. The More XML technology processors the better. Examples:
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Recommendations and experience are highly appreciated.
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Basic .html webpages and encoding types when saving; does it make any difference?
I don't see an appropriate forum to ask this, so I have to ask it here. I recently changed from the cPanel "x2" to the "x3" type theme/layout for my main website. Among the differences, in the "Legacy File Manager" area when you open any page it asks about the encoding you want to use. (This does not happen with the x2 theme). It then selects or guesses on the encoding and you can go with that, or select another from a REALLY LONG list in a drop-down menu. (I found out that prompt can be bypassed by changing a setting in the current non-legacy File Manager). But the options are still there if you want to change encoding. Also once the page is opened and you go to edit it, at the top is also the drop-down menu about the encoding which you can choose when saving the page changes.
So here's what I don't understand. All of my .html pages were created the same way, either in Notepad or Metapad, basic text. So why is it the detected encoding is so different for my .html pages? Here's a list of the encodings for few I opened to check this:
ansi_x3.110-1983
iso-8859-1
us-ascii
big5
Again, these are all the same basic .html types of webpages. Now I would have thought all of them would be "us-ascii". But as you can see, they are not. There may be even more encoding types. How did they get this way? Does it really make any difference, or should I re-save all the pages as us-ascii? Is there any search engine advantages by using one type of encoding or the same encoding for all pages?
BTW, I tried changing one of the "big5" detected pages to the us-ascii option and it would not take! It kept going back to "big5". And, the type of fonts you see in the edit window (which displays the source code) are totally different for this "big5". All the other types are shown as the same font, but "big5" looks rather "scrunched up". (The fonts people see on the webpages, all look the same and as they should).
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Security
Facebook mobile a new source of scam or real information?
I just got the following cms on my mobile phone.
"Fcebook Mobile confirmation code:
xxxxxx std rates / other charges may apply"
1. What is it?
2. Are cms messages on by default?
3. If yes, is it possible to block cms messages?
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Recently the editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber, made a statement that most newspaper websites will be charging for content within a year. It is no secret that the newspaper industry has been hurting lately. With so many people turning to the web for their news, newspaper sales are down and the newpaper organizations have been trying to figure out a way to earn revenue online.
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