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Using Google's image search, I have uncovered pictures that are clear evidence that these people use child workers to assemble these reactors.

N.b. I would mirror these myself rather than linking directly, but the only web space I have is on a friend's ADSL connection.

"because the domains are different, the many thousands of links these sites have to one another all count toward the automated calculation of their popularity and quality at Google"

Wrong. PageRank counts links, whether they're on the same domain or not.

"giving them all a boost in the rankings and hence bringing Webseed more traffic and hence more revenue"

Wrong. Webseed tripped Google's spam penalty and their hub has had a PageRank of exactly zero since about January 25.

"AltaVista appears to be making a comeback"

Wrong. AltaVista is on its last legs. Fast Search is a quick, comprehensive search engine with advanced features. Inktomi is a good referrer for site owners because it powers big sites like MSN Search. Google is a big, quick search engine that's iextremely popular, very easy to use and it still has a habbit of putting the better sites near the top (even though people are trying very hard to spam it).

Calum
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Calum I Mac Leod, Scottish Borders

> I don't suppose Google can fetch the URLS
> inside a Flash file (correct me If I'm wrong),

Sorry, you're wrong. Google does index the links inside a Flash movie, but not the content.

Of course anyone who takes search engine marketing seriously wouldn't dream of hiding indexable content in unstructured binary proprietory formats anyway.

Calum
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Calum I Mac Leod, Scottish Borders

> Now WebTV and Mac, that are .5% and 1.5% of this website?

How did you come up with that?

I have found that enquiries from WebTVers and sales to WebTVers far outweigh the tiny footprint left by their very aggressive proxy caches. If the Web sites I control were WebTV unfriendly then I might have as much faith in my server logs as you seem too. ;-)

If your figures are for "hits" or "impressions" then the friendliness of your Web site to users of various browsers may affect the numbers greatly. I hit many Web pages, and I use the WWW to research much of my employer's expenditure, yet I don't browse much (or spend money with) those businesses whose Web sites I am locked from. Many PHBs in unprogressive corp's don't seem to spot the holes in obviously tainted research.

Calum
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Calum I Mac Leod
Scottish Borders

egrinake: "...Today, however, HTML has become very layout-centric, as opposed to content-centric, with emphasis on tables and invisible GIFs for arranging the data..."

Yes, a load of people have a very layout-centric approach, but that doesn't mean that HTML is about layout. HTML 4 brought us plenty of new semantic attributes, and deprecated a lot of the presentational stuff that crept into HTML 3.1

In fact XHTML 1.0 gave us exactly no new HTML structure (it just allows for the idea of mixing HTML with other XML based markup languages). The idea of leaving the markup to HTML and the presentation to CSS is far from new, it just took the browsers a long time to catch up.

I just hope that lots and lots of gullible people believe that XHTML 1.0 is the beginning of structure on the Web, and start to use it as they should have done years ago.

Calum
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Calum I Mac Leod
Scottish Borders

What the couch potatoes who lounge about with their electronic gadgets instead of getting out and about really need is a way to generate electricity from sitting around munching fries and playing with all these electronic toys.

Calum
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Calum I Mac Leod, Scottish Borders.