From what I understand, Froogle is very different from PriceGrabber, PriceWatch, BizRate, Yahoo! Shopping, MySimon, Nextag and others. You have to pay and provide the XML feed with your products to the search engine (or be a hosting customer of Yahoo! Stores to be listed in Yahoo! Shopping), so really in a nutshell those places are nothing more than databases, broken down into categories with database search enabled. The selection is limited.
Froogle, however, is purely search engine. Just like the Google Web search, you'll be in their database if you happen to sell something, your site has a dollar tag on it next to the product, and you're not hiding your products behind some obscure interface that search engine has no access to.
There's little technological value in PriceGrabber, PriceWatch, BizRate, DealTime, Yahoo! Shopping and others, but there's technology involved with Froogle that gives you much broader choice of vendors.
What I would like to see, although I'd admit it might be asking for too much. But you know those places that give you cashback if you shop online with them? Basically they get the affiliate comissions and then pay you back as part of the deal. eBates and FatCash are the ones I use, but there are more. It would be really nice if the shopping search engines knew that I could get a certain kick back from the amount of sale, and they would display the price like "Seller price - $399, use FatCash for additional 4% ($12) off".
That would naturally involve some kind of cooperation with the cashback site, but that would definitely add some value for the consumer. I don't see any search engine implementing it soon (after all, it would be eBates and FatCash making money off this feature, not the engine), but if Google were to implement similar program, I would sign up for it.
How is the availability of source code going to matter the quality of work of government employees? There should be no open source policy as well as no closed source policy, there should be a single software requirements policy to be eligible for government tenders.
The government could specify for example, certain formats, protocols and standards that should be supported by a participating vendor. The rest is up to the vendor, which would most probably use already available open source codebase (faster development), unless the vendor happens to have large codebase repository already (Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) But that must be vendor's decision.
Think, for example, about a possibility of conflict where the government policy mandates use of open source tools only, but yet another policy specifies that all video files from the government servers should be distributed in MPEG, QuickTime and WMV formats. How are you going to accomplish the second task, if you're mandated to open your sources, but there's no open source version for your favorite codec?
Once again, the formats and standards should be defined by the government. The fact, whether source_code.zip is shipped with the CD, does not matter.
Hello? It's not very easy to imagine a site that's willing let a third party handle customer information for free.
Depends on the definition of the customer. For example, if I am running a site with a bunch of forums and discussion boards, I implement registration, so that no user can steal other's identity and misrepresent him.
Registration on all small sites and various PHP boards is a pain, I don't want to leave a whole bunch of info at hundreds of different sites. If I see a button that allows me to use my Passport/Yahoo/Slashdot/etc ID and password, I'd go for it.
Looking at it from the Webmaster's point of view, I'd go for it, too, if there was an easy way (a drop-in PHP/Perl/Python/ASP script) to implement it. After all, I don't care about most of the information the users leave anyway, I just want the nicks to be unique.
Maybe someone could come up with better usability design for the car interfaces as well, instead of those multiple-menu screens built by Germans (no offense to KDE and SuSE guys, but Germans, while touting reliability, do build awful interfaces in their cars).
If it has anything to do with the research or numbers outside of your own company (like you surveyed someone in the industry or you consolidated the questionnaires from your clients), I will take it (link to it with article piece).
I run IT Facts site, which collects facts on IT, mostly research, surveys, numbers and graphs.
Send an e-mail to webmaster at that domain name. The site is also syndicated to some other outfits, so you'll get exposure on other resources, too.
Hmm, I was hoping to learn something in terms of placement. Your pages look cleaner and less cluttered, but I think the major reason for high rankings has to do with the topic of the Palm howto pages.
For example, going over here I find the ads very relevant and very specific. If I am interested in Palms or Palm development (I am not, since I own a Pocket PC and have done some Zaurus development before) I would definitely click there as the offer "Palm Pilot PDAs cheap" just looks good, even if I am not urgently looking to buy one.
ExtremeTech is not your truly commercial site. A lot of their stuff is written by volunteers who put in time and effort to get published. I am not exactly sure about this author, he might work for PC Mag, which owns ExtremeTech, but generally the site is quite unbiased.
There are very few people in this world who would maliciously copy the Web site for the purpose of mirroring it out of their own pocket. More often than not, it's the pageviews and ad rotation that they're after.
Proliferation of Google Ads, and similar offerings from FindWhat and MarketBanker allowed a bunch of content-driven Web sites to exist and make money at the same time. At one of the sites I run the click-through ratio on Google Ads (the site's only means of survival) are at about 0.1-0.2% and thus more traffic and more content means more targetted visitors, more pageviews, and with 0.1-0.2% ratio being (you hope) constant, more money.
So hit them where it hurts. If they earn money through Google, Findwhat or MarketBanker, contact the ad engines. Most of the time it's abuse of the service agreement and abuse of their advertising system. They send the paychecks, and if they tell the guy to shape up or have the account suspended, actions will be taken.
Contact their ISP or hoster, regardless of the country. Unless both the hoster and site copier are the same people, you can find reasonable understanding there, with hoster giving then the warning to the copier about possible implications.
Contact his advertisers. If you see lots of Amazon referral links, contact Amazon Associates support with the problem description. I never heard Amazon actually doing something about it, but the pressure from several points on the copier might enhance your chances of him giving up.
Several years ago this spamdemic map was quite popular. It's an attempt to have a poster that would allow you to figure out who's behind all those "get out of debt" messages in your inbox. Some of that is still relevant nowadays.
The official 0.8. Tabs open - Slashdot, News.com and Webmail on my server. No Java applets, no Flash, perhaps some JavaScript, no huge images or animations.
The thing about "efficiency" improvements is that the potential market is not that large. There might be maybe 20 people on this planet willing to pay $200 for a Win2k that occupies 32 MB less of memory space.
As Netscape example has shown, if you deviate from your core business and start re-writing the entire codebase for the sake of "cleanliness" and "efficiency", someone else will step into the market, and by the time your re-written product is capable of running on Casio watches, the market has made several steps forward in terms of functionality.
Hey, if you're extremely worried about the RAM resources, are too cheap to shell out that extra $40 for 256 MB of memory, or expect to run the whole thing on TI-83 calculator, then maybe next Windows is not for you.
If you want functionality, you have to dedicate resources, if you don't want much functionality, stick to Linux on a floppy with pre-installed vi and life would be great.
Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is currently taking up 63 MB of RAM, and that's just a browser with no media players, mail clients, task schedulers, etc.
$15/month is not the cheapest. They have $110 per year for 5 books/month. That's less than $10/month or with access to 50 books roughly $2.20 per book.
Here's a search for a possible culprit - just x86. Seems fine, although notice how the first 9 results are all AMD, with some impostor Intel claiming #10 spot (and it's not even Intel's site, it's Solaris on Intel document).
But back to searches for XFree86. So it wasn't the X86 part, how about free86 - oh, look, XFree86.org is listed with Microsoft search engine after all. You just don't search it by name, search it by keyword that's reasonably close.
Well, there's always silver lining. Yahoo is currently adding a bunch of sources (including audio NPR feeds available via text search) that weren't available via general search engine before.
Among the organizations working with Yahoo! are National Public Radio, Northwestern University, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the National Science Digital Library.
Before that they've added support for RSS feeds to both Yahoo Search and My Yahoo.
The paid directory program does not seem to be that big of a deal right now compared to where Yahoo's catalog was three or four years ago, when you had to be there to conduct any decent business. When was the last time you used Yahoo's catalog? It's good to see the top guys among search engines fight for that top spot, search engine business needs competition.
Slashdot Mirror
From what I understand, Froogle is very different from PriceGrabber, PriceWatch, BizRate, Yahoo! Shopping, MySimon, Nextag and others. You have to pay and provide the XML feed with your products to the search engine (or be a hosting customer of Yahoo! Stores to be listed in Yahoo! Shopping), so really in a nutshell those places are nothing more than databases, broken down into categories with database search enabled. The selection is limited.
Froogle, however, is purely search engine. Just like the Google Web search, you'll be in their database if you happen to sell something, your site has a dollar tag on it next to the product, and you're not hiding your products behind some obscure interface that search engine has no access to.
There's little technological value in PriceGrabber, PriceWatch, BizRate, DealTime, Yahoo! Shopping and others, but there's technology involved with Froogle that gives you much broader choice of vendors.
What I would like to see, although I'd admit it might be asking for too much. But you know those places that give you cashback if you shop online with them? Basically they get the affiliate comissions and then pay you back as part of the deal. eBates and FatCash are the ones I use, but there are more. It would be really nice if the shopping search engines knew that I could get a certain kick back from the amount of sale, and they would display the price like "Seller price - $399, use FatCash for additional 4% ($12) off".
That would naturally involve some kind of cooperation with the cashback site, but that would definitely add some value for the consumer. I don't see any search engine implementing it soon (after all, it would be eBates and FatCash making money off this feature, not the engine), but if Google were to implement similar program, I would sign up for it.
How is the availability of source code going to matter the quality of work of government employees? There should be no open source policy as well as no closed source policy, there should be a single software requirements policy to be eligible for government tenders.
The government could specify for example, certain formats, protocols and standards that should be supported by a participating vendor. The rest is up to the vendor, which would most probably use already available open source codebase (faster development), unless the vendor happens to have large codebase repository already (Microsoft, Oracle, etc.) But that must be vendor's decision.
Think, for example, about a possibility of conflict where the government policy mandates use of open source tools only, but yet another policy specifies that all video files from the government servers should be distributed in MPEG, QuickTime and WMV formats. How are you going to accomplish the second task, if you're mandated to open your sources, but there's no open source version for your favorite codec?
Once again, the formats and standards should be defined by the government. The fact, whether source_code.zip is shipped with the CD, does not matter.
Hello? It's not very easy to imagine a site that's willing let a third party handle customer information for free.
Depends on the definition of the customer. For example, if I am running a site with a bunch of forums and discussion boards, I implement registration, so that no user can steal other's identity and misrepresent him.
Registration on all small sites and various PHP boards is a pain, I don't want to leave a whole bunch of info at hundreds of different sites. If I see a button that allows me to use my Passport/Yahoo/Slashdot/etc ID and password, I'd go for it.
Looking at it from the Webmaster's point of view, I'd go for it, too, if there was an easy way (a drop-in PHP/Perl/Python/ASP script) to implement it. After all, I don't care about most of the information the users leave anyway, I just want the nicks to be unique.
see them pictures
Also, press release from Philips and press release from Sony with even better pictures.
homeless=place to hangout
Where do they hangout? realtor.com?
About 30 million Americans are accessing the Internet from some place other than home or work. School, neighbor's house or friend's house, and libraries.
In December 2003 only 126 million Americans were online. Also, interesting to note that 66 mln use the Internet on a daily basis.
Maybe someone could come up with better usability design for the car interfaces as well, instead of those multiple-menu screens built by Germans (no offense to KDE and SuSE guys, but Germans, while touting reliability, do build awful interfaces in their cars).
I just got this column from Jacob Nielsen in my mailbox complaining about this exact issue.
They also asked CmdrTaco the same question recently.
Diarrhea pays off!
If it has anything to do with the research or numbers outside of your own company (like you surveyed someone in the industry or you consolidated the questionnaires from your clients), I will take it (link to it with article piece).
I run IT Facts site, which collects facts on IT, mostly research, surveys, numbers and graphs.
Send an e-mail to webmaster at that domain name. The site is also syndicated to some other outfits, so you'll get exposure on other resources, too.
Hmm, I was hoping to learn something in terms of placement. Your pages look cleaner and less cluttered, but I think the major reason for high rankings has to do with the topic of the Palm howto pages.
For example, going over here I find the ads very relevant and very specific. If I am interested in Palms or Palm development (I am not, since I own a Pocket PC and have done some Zaurus development before) I would definitely click there as the offer "Palm Pilot PDAs cheap" just looks good, even if I am not urgently looking to buy one.
what's your URL? 0.7% would surely triple my income.
ExtremeTech is not your truly commercial site. A lot of their stuff is written by volunteers who put in time and effort to get published. I am not exactly sure about this author, he might work for PC Mag, which owns ExtremeTech, but generally the site is quite unbiased.
fark.ru is legal, although not as popular as fark.com
I think the owner of fark.com even visited Russia when they were launching that site
There are very few people in this world who would maliciously copy the Web site for the purpose of mirroring it out of their own pocket. More often than not, it's the pageviews and ad rotation that they're after.
Proliferation of Google Ads, and similar offerings from FindWhat and MarketBanker allowed a bunch of content-driven Web sites to exist and make money at the same time. At one of the sites I run the click-through ratio on Google Ads (the site's only means of survival) are at about 0.1-0.2% and thus more traffic and more content means more targetted visitors, more pageviews, and with 0.1-0.2% ratio being (you hope) constant, more money.
So hit them where it hurts. If they earn money through Google, Findwhat or MarketBanker, contact the ad engines. Most of the time it's abuse of the service agreement and abuse of their advertising system. They send the paychecks, and if they tell the guy to shape up or have the account suspended, actions will be taken.
Contact their ISP or hoster, regardless of the country. Unless both the hoster and site copier are the same people, you can find reasonable understanding there, with hoster giving then the warning to the copier about possible implications.
Contact his advertisers. If you see lots of Amazon referral links, contact Amazon Associates support with the problem description. I never heard Amazon actually doing something about it, but the pressure from several points on the copier might enhance your chances of him giving up.
Several years ago this spamdemic map was quite popular. It's an attempt to have a poster that would allow you to figure out who's behind all those "get out of debt" messages in your inbox. Some of that is still relevant nowadays.
The official 0.8. Tabs open - Slashdot, News.com and Webmail on my server. No Java applets, no Flash, perhaps some JavaScript, no huge images or animations.
The thing about "efficiency" improvements is that the potential market is not that large. There might be maybe 20 people on this planet willing to pay $200 for a Win2k that occupies 32 MB less of memory space.
As Netscape example has shown, if you deviate from your core business and start re-writing the entire codebase for the sake of "cleanliness" and "efficiency", someone else will step into the market, and by the time your re-written product is capable of running on Casio watches, the market has made several steps forward in terms of functionality.
Hey, if you're extremely worried about the RAM resources, are too cheap to shell out that extra $40 for 256 MB of memory, or expect to run the whole thing on TI-83 calculator, then maybe next Windows is not for you.
If you want functionality, you have to dedicate resources, if you don't want much functionality, stick to Linux on a floppy with pre-installed vi and life would be great.
Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is currently taking up 63 MB of RAM, and that's just a browser with no media players, mail clients, task schedulers, etc.
$15/month is not the cheapest. They have $110 per year for 5 books/month. That's less than $10/month or with access to 50 books roughly $2.20 per book.
Autozone
Bank of America
Computer Associates
Daimler Chrysler
E...?
XFree85 seems to work
And so does XFree87
Here's a search for a possible culprit - just x86. Seems fine, although notice how the first 9 results are all AMD, with some impostor Intel claiming #10 spot (and it's not even Intel's site, it's Solaris on Intel document).
But back to searches for XFree86. So it wasn't the X86 part, how about
free86 - oh, look, XFree86.org is listed with Microsoft search engine after all. You just don't search it by name, search it by keyword that's reasonably close.
remember to go through the list
Well, there's always silver lining. Yahoo is currently adding a bunch of sources (including audio NPR feeds available via text search) that weren't available via general search engine before.
Before that they've added support for RSS feeds to both Yahoo Search and My Yahoo.
The paid directory program does not seem to be that big of a deal right now compared to where Yahoo's catalog was three or four years ago, when you had to be there to conduct any decent business. When was the last time you used Yahoo's catalog? It's good to see the top guys among search engines fight for that top spot, search engine business needs competition.