What are Your Predictions for 2004?

[Brittany]

Everybody loves a little future-predicting fun.. I didn't see this posted anywhere, so I figured I'd start a new thread:

What are your predictions for 2004?

Garrett's been calling experts all day, asking for their opinions, and it got me wondering...

Will Microsoft buy Google?
Will there be more algorithm changes?
Will the UN take control of the internet?
Will I finally take control of the world? ;)

What are your thoughts?

[carju1]

What are your predictions for 2004?

Garrett's been calling experts all day, asking for their opinions, and it got me wondering...

I thought I heard my phone ringing earlier. OK my expert prediction.

Rams to beat the Bronco's in the Superbowl.

My non-expert predictions for 2004.
1.When google abandons metatags and go purely content for SE rankings, sites using frames will become the next great thing.
2. As US businesses realise that the internet allows them to sell world wide and the world doesn't all speak English, Multi-lingual Europe will become the standard bearer for multi-language web sites and colour will regain its U.
3. Everyone reading this gets at least 12 e-mails offering to sell them viagra in 2004
4. Someone posts in WPW that using Javascript will completely protect their web page content
5. Matauri changes her picture before Easter
6. Carbonize final admits he had to switch to IE
7. Brittany's global take over bid is foiled by Garrett hacking her password.
8. I get offered another job in the Netherlands within a month of moving back to the UK in January.
9. The is today today or tomorrow yesterday thread reaches its 2000'th post before the end of 2004 and Wen proves her Jello is really existing in 1999.
10. That x-mas day will be on the 25th of December in 2004.

Julian( bet I get at least 1 prediction correct)

[ronniethedodger]

Will Microsoft buy Google?

Yes! But what they buy them is anyones guess.

You can bet they will only buy them the Standard Version...it will be up to Google to fork out the extra dough for the Enterprise Edition.

Will there be more algorithm changes?

No...definitely not !!! But I do predict that there will be changes to the algorithm.

Will the UN take control of the internet?

I am going out on a limb on this one....Yes !!

But only after repeating the 8 week course in "Learning Internet Basics" for their second time.

Will I finally take control of the world? ;)

Yes and No - Considering most people from Kentucky do not know that a world exists outside of their own State...then it is entirely possible that Brittany will succeed in taking control of the world.

Personally -- I would prefer it to be NO !!! Have you ever been to Arkansas Brittany ??? ;-)

[tarikrashid]

Will I finally take control of the world?

Yes I will finally take control of the world if!

I can control myself

[mikmik]

"Multiple mikmik,
The psychotic psychic"
33.3% success rate, way above average!

Motto: I can see it all now.

[Unclefussy]

carju1


Rams to beat the Bronco's in the Superbowl.
I am from Colorado and must say GO RAMS!


3. Everyone reading this gets at least 12 e-mails offering to sell them viagra in 2004
Dang I get that many everyday already.. LOL

[mikmik]

So many good predictions.

I am Raiders fan, they won't make the play-offs ( That's one right!)

Montreal Canadiens will win Lord stanley's mug ( 1 - 1 LOL)

Greyhawk, backed by his legion of WPWer's from BC, will overthrow the BC gov't in Canada's first of a long line of provincial coup de tat's

Wait, I already had a turn--------------------

Does anybody talk SOCCER around here!!!!!!!!!!!

I've dropped well over 100's of hints, openings, attemted digs, try to look foolish in my support of Leeds UFC....

C'mon . EUROPE 2004!

Anyone? The Dutch, now that they are not a threat?

r't'd' ( I hope you don't mind :o)) wrote :
Will the UN take control of the internet?

I am going out on a limb on this one....Yes !!

But only after repeating the 8 week course in "Learning Internet Basics" for their second time.

Don't forget their 'Learners permits' followed by 'Class one with air'!

[janeth]

I think Google will still be #1 but not by near as much.

[ronniethedodger]

So many good predictions.

I am Raiders fan, they won't make the play-offs ( That's one right!)


Yep...you are right on that one. In fact, they will
not even make it to the Super Bowl either.


I think Google will still be #1 but not by near as much.


That is a pretty safe bet. ;0)

[greeneagle]

1. GOOGLE will finish ridding itself of the Page Rank patent royalty ties to Stanford before the IPO.

2. MSN will start crawling agressively with a new advanced bot and start feeding MSNsearch directly.

3. Looksmart will announce new strategic business alliances sometime shortly after Jan. 1st.

4. The butler (Jeeves) will be at your door more.

5. The Florida update will look like a "warm up session" after 2004.

*******

5. We will all have to go to dedicated servers to handle the bot bandwidth as the search engine wars heat up.

6. ronniethedodger will get some of my phone browser traffic.

7. minstrel will franchise clinics in several major cities and become fabulously wealthy treating Internet addiction worldwide.

1) Microsoft is shocked when a surprise bunch of canadian geese outbid them and buy Google. New name of SE: Gaggle

2) a start-up self-help web site, www.amnesiacs_anonymous.com, fails miserably as all members inevitably forget their usernames & passwords, & eventually the entire URL altogether.

3) a famous linguist discovers that 'Spam' spelled backward is 'maps'; but this does little to stop the flow of Spam in the world and determined Spammers are seemingly undaunted


DAREN ;-}

[ronniethedodger]

I predict that GreenEagle is successful in 6 out of his 7 predictions.

I also predict, that he will make it appear to be 7 out of 7
by actually following thru on the only prediction that he
actually has any control over. ;0)

[Nargule]

I thought I heard my phone ringing earlier. OK my expert prediction.

Rams to beat the Bronco's in the Superbowl.

My non-expert predictions for 2004.
1.When google abandons metatags and go purely content for SE rankings, sites using frames will become the next great thing.

I knew it! Everyone laughs at me for my radical concepts but this frames thing has finally caught on - and I'm in the lead. Stay tunned for my frame within a frame within a frame concept.


2. As US businesses realise that the internet allows them to sell world wide and the world doesn't all speak English, Multi-lingual Europe will become the standard bearer for multi-language web sites and colour will regain its U.
You can't regain something you never had in the first place. Color has always been spelt without the "u". It wasn't until after the United States came along that other countries added the "u".


3. Everyone reading this gets at least 12 e-mails offering to sell them viagra in 2004
Well...duh.


4. Someone posts in WPW that using Javascript will completely protect their web page content
Yes, but then how do you protect your Javascript?


5. Matauri changes her picture before Easter
6. Carbonize final admits he had to switch to IE
7. Brittany's global take over bid is foiled by Garrett hacking her password.
8. I get offered another job in the Netherlands within a month of moving back to the UK in January.
9. The is today today or tomorrow yesterday thread reaches its 2000'th post before the end of 2004 and Wen proves her Jello is really existing in 1999.
10. That x-mas day will be on the 25th of December in 2004.

Julian( bet I get at least 1 prediction correct)

Would that be #10 or #3?

[wenwilder]

My non-expert predictions for 2004.
3. Everyone reading this gets at least 12 e-mails offering to sell them viagra in 2004


That is the last time I read a post by you when you're making predictions! While I was reading your predictions I actually received an email on that very topic! I'm cursed now!!!!! ;)

[matauri]

You can't regain something you never had in the first place. Color has always been spelt without the "u". It wasn't until after the United States came along that other countries added the "u".

Actually.....


By 1700 English spelling had become fixed in its present form and Dr Johnson's dictionary of 1755 merely served to record these spellings. Efforts to reform English spelling started not long after this time. Benjamin Franklin advocated reform in 1768 while Noah Webster introduced his American dictionary in 1828, a book which produced the variant American spellings of colour, centre etc. In 1842 Sir Isaac Pitman (of shorthand fame) developed an extended alphabet called Phonotype for spelling reform, while in this century George Bernard Shaw campaigned vigorously for spelling reform.

It was pure laziness & illiteracy that caused the change in spelling. Easier to use phonetics the americans thought. Can we spell... a-l-f-a-b-e-t ;-)

So with all the arguements for against who is going to control the Internet, we only have to look at who controls the language of it.

My prediction for 2004.... Everyone will learn to speak Aussie & we will control the Internet! Sounds good to me! ;-)



Cindy

[Tel]

My prediction for 2004.... Everyone will learn to speak Aussie & we will control the Internet! Sounds good to me! ;-)

Cindy

What a cheering thought the Aussies controlling the internet -

* emails won't 'bounce' they will simply boomerang
* Celebrating the Aussie convict history .COM will be changed to .CON
* All email addresses will contain the word mate, for example G'day@oz.mate.con
* Spam titles will be more direct i.e.
"~ Have some XXXXing Viagra mate, good on yer~"
* BOTS will be renamed WOMBOTS
* Yahoo! will be renamed KangarOO!
* Java will be changed to Beerscript
* All computer monitors will be produced with corks hanging on strings in front of the screen.
* Surfing the net will take on a more literal meaning.
* Banner ads will all begin with G'Day !
* Search Engine positioning will be done using SatNav
* It will be illegal to operate a computer whilst sober
* emails will be received to the sound of a didgeridoo
* All domains renamed i.e.
.co.uk = .pom
.co.nz = .sheep

I could go on and on but must resist the temptation. Yes I think it would be very interesting having the Aussies control the internet.

[matauri]

What a cheering thought the Aussies controlling the internet -

LOL... Very funny indeed !! :-)

Normally I would have had a come back, but that was too good :-)

LOL..Actually...I think some of those sounded pretty good!
And you have to admit .pom sounds pretty cool !

Cheers mate !! And a Happy New Year to yer~ ! ;-)



Cindy

[Tel]

Yea I like the idea of a DOT.POM domain name I must say ! Wouldn't translate very well into American though DOT.LIMEY doesn't have the same sort of ring about it does it? It's an interesting thought that if Oz did take over the internet would our posts look like this in the Northern Hemisphere?

http://www.practise.f9.co.uk/tel/text.gif

[ronniethedodger]

I knew it! Everyone laughs at me for my radical concepts but this frames thing has finally caught on - and I'm in the lead. Stay tunned for my frame within a frame within a frame concept.


Yes! Recursive Frames.

More predictions
1. I predict that Nargule develops re-iterative code based on a Mandelbot series of equations that search engine spiders can successfully crawl in and out of without being trapped.

2. MSNsearch buys the patent from Nargule...and he becomes rich beyond his wildest dreams, buys an Island in the South Pacific, and never uses a computer ever again.

3. MSNsearch goes back to court for a civil suit filed by millions of Internet users who asked the question, "What will happen if I resize this frame right here...click" .... ruh roh

[ronniethedodger]

Yea I like the idea of a DOT.POM domain name I must say ! Wouldn't translate very well into American though DOT.LIMEY doesn't have the same sort of ring about it does it?

BLIMEY.LIMEY -- DOT.CHAP comes to mind.

Don't forget about the possibilities for some of these catchy little domain/sub-domain names:

cheerio-and-all-that-dot.rot
an-I-4-deet.ale
UK.noInotOK
lets-go-2.pub
and
lets-get.pint

Heck...that almost sounds like a conversation took place there. ;0)


It's an interesting thought that if Oz did take over the internet would our posts look like this in the Northern Hemisphere?

That would depend on which North you were talking about. We all know that the Aussies tend to hang the World Globe Map upside down on their walls. ;0)

[hsp]

Indie Feature film of the year04 will be "The Legend of Johnny Kakota" http://www.fireme.to/thelegend

[Nargule]

Yes! Recursive Frames.

More predictions
1. I predict that Nargule develops re-iterative code based on a Mandelbot series of equations that search engine spiders can successfully crawl in and out of without being trapped.

You got it all wrong. My frame within a frame concept is designed to intentionally trap spiders so my index.html page appears #1 for any keyword you type into google. I'm telling you it's brillant!



2. MSNsearch buys the patent from Nargule...and he becomes rich beyond his wildest dreams, buys an Island in the South Pacific, and never uses a computer ever again.
Hmmm...I like the sound of some of those things, but not others. I'll leave to everyone's imagination which ones are which.



3. MSNsearch goes back to court for a civil suit filed by millions of Internet users who asked the question, "What will happen if I resize this frame right here...click" .... ruh roh
That just might happen anyway.

[AussieWebmaster]

You can't regain something you never had in the first place. Color has always been spelt without the "u". It wasn't until after the United States came along that other countries added the "u".

Actually.....


By 1700 English spelling had become fixed in its present form and Dr Johnson's dictionary of 1755 merely served to record these spellings. Efforts to reform English spelling started not long after this time. Benjamin Franklin advocated reform in 1768 while Noah Webster introduced his American dictionary in 1828, a book which produced the variant American spellings of colour, centre etc. In 1842 Sir Isaac Pitman (of shorthand fame) developed an extended alphabet called Phonotype for spelling reform, while in this century George Bernard Shaw campaigned vigorously for spelling reform.

It was pure laziness & illiteracy that caused the change in spelling. Easier to use phonetics the americans thought. Can we spell... a-l-f-a-b-e-t ;-)

So with all the arguements for against who is going to control the Internet, we only have to look at who controls the language of it.

My prediction for 2004.... Everyone will learn to speak Aussie & we will control the Internet! Sounds good to me! ;-)



Cindy

We already do control the internet... it was just not supposed to be common knowledge... we have been letting the Americans take the credit to keep people away from God's country... if people start to realize Australia is the best place in the world everyone will start to move there and that will be the end of paradise

[AussieWebmaster]

The Chinese will finally get their act together and start the push into the US and European search markets.

Watch for sina or sohu or baidu making a play for some of the low lying fruit. Looksmart is one that seems ripe for the plucking. They better do it before all the staff leaves for other engines.

Seems the Sprinks people did not go over to Google but landed at Kanoodle, so maybe they are ripe for plucking too.

[mikmik]

Canadians are much to polite to hurt everybody's feelings by informing the U.N. that everything is under control and nobody suspects a thing. Yes, let's just go with that then, the Aussies!
We may be a bit lazy when it comes to typing those gawd awful three letter domains, but two is easier to remember as well!
Why don't you guys have them?

[alsoran]

1.An eye-popping IPO from Google

2.Search engine supremacy hotting up

3.Niche search engines coming up on specific topics.

4.Pay-per-clicks taking back seat.

[AussieWebmaster]

Canadians are much to polite to hurt everybody's feelings by informing the U.N. that everything is under control and nobody suspects a thing. Yes, let's just go with that then, the Aussies!
We may be a bit lazy when it comes to typing those gawd awful three letter domains, but two is easier to remember as well!
Why don't you guys have them?

I think we should go for the 4 letter domain and be done with it .mate

[Arctic Fox]

*time traveling*

[Arctic Fox]

Sorry for bringing this topic back to life - I thought it would be funny to re-read the predictions, now almost 5 years later.

A mod thought I was link/post spamming... so I will go sit in the corner now.