Site review: CARFAX.com

CARFAX (http://www.carfax.com) specializes in selling vehicle history reports on used cars. After spending some time browsing around the site, I've identified three major areas in which the site could be improved.

Integrating/Improving Performances of Tomcat and IIS on Windows Server

IIS is Microsoft's Internet Information Server running on Windows Servers family. Tomcat is world wide used web server built on Java platform for JSP/Servlets. Due to ease of operating and maintaining IIS in windows environment, we still prefer to buy the windows server and run IIS for websites and by default we run Tomcat on port 8080 as the default installation.

Cache Bashing: Google API Used In SEO War

The Nigritude Ultramarine seo contest just got nastier with the addition of an application that uses Google's API to scrape Google's cached pages of Nigritude Ultramarine sites. The wily creator of this app then cloaks the stolen pages as if they were his, and since he's got higher PageRank he kicks the site he copied out due to the duplicate site penalty.

Paid Text Ads A Bigger Threat Than Blogs?

Paid links or "sponsorships" are a hot trend right now and one that has important implications for all SEO practitioners, professional or amateur. Numerous commercial brokers have launched Web sites that facilitate the sale of links on a wide array of Web sites with high PageRank.

updateAfterEvent Explained

It appears that most coders use it, but 50% if not more dont actually know why they are using it, what it does or when they should use it. In the latest article for a regular column in a uk based internet magazine; dot net, a self proclaimed actionscript expert implemented updateAfterEvent in his mouse recording example as follows: