The ??AA can try to sue emugle which has been up for sometime now and functions as a search engine for the edonkey network. A network that, perhaps less useful for legal P2P, is still the worlds most popular P2P network. The problem (not a really a problem in my view) is that this network is mainly used (and also based ?) in Europe, where it might be a little bit harder for the ??AA to throw it's menacing claws also known as lawyers.
I am sure that the ultimate goal would be to get rid of of all P2P search engines but if they are going to start with bitTorrent is will be funny that the first truly "evil" service will remain while the "Not really evil but could be used for evil purposes" service will go away.
You do not provide a link to your site so i cannot say that for sure, but i guess that your site is not there to make money, or at least that was not your intention when you first created it. Try to set up a site that sells stuff for the kitchen and see how long it will take you to reach the top 10. I am sure that 95% of the links to your site come from cooking related sites. An Seo company trying to promote a site like yours will jump leaps and bounds and will acquire links that otherwise would have never even thought of linking to your site. The sad thing right now, is that it works.
If I use a pay-per-click service like AdClick, then I can have my site temporarily higher on search results as well as increase Google's "confidence" in my site.
If this is the reason you use PPC, you are actually doing seo.
This also very much depends on which time period are we talking about. Nowadays, lots of sites especially in fields with high competition have to use Seo just because everyone else does. I am sure that 95% of the links to your site come from cooking related sites. An Seo company trying to promote a site like yours will jump leaps and bounds and will acquire links that otherwise would have never even thought of linking to your site. The sad thing right now, is that it works.
What you are saying might be true for well established sites or for someone that is offering content not yet available. But if some new fellow wants to enter the competition he can either wait a very long time so enough people would link out of their free will to his site, or, he can try and make the process a little faster. If you are talking about a business (and 99% of sites using seo are there to make money) this actually will decide if it will survive or not.
Personally, I think google, by publishing too much information about their Page Rank formula ruined there own search engine. Right now, for a lot of keywords, yahoo has much better results than google. I am not saying that they don't use incoming links as a part of their formula but the beauty of it, is that you can not know for sure.
I am still wondering if seo is here to stay. The world of search can be very dynamic and it could result costing a lot of money for a business to keep up a good position and still not be satisfied with the results (which is a given since the formula will always try to counter new bad tactics). Besides, the only difficult thing about seo is to get lots of links. With the importance of inbound links declining there will be no need (as far as i can see) to hire an seo company. Having good content an updating regularly are two things that any self respected business will keep doing if they want to stay in business anyway.
generaly speaking 90% of the services google currently offers are in some sort of beta phase. The thing is that most of them worked quite perfectly right after launch. This seems to be the first one that has some serious bugs.
I guess that in the last couple of years the meaning of the term 'beta' has changed to a point where people still expect perfect functionality from a beta phase product. Or maybe just the level of the actual non beta products has deteriorated.
Even if the A380 is a huge succes, boeing could not afford to start developing its own version. Simply, by the time it will be ready for commercial use the price of fuel (and as a result flight fares) will be so high, no airline would buy a jet that will be absolete in a couple of years. If boeing wants to take care of their future (and ours) they should start putting some big efforts and piles of cash on developing a non oil dependant solution.
My thanks to the British people for paying for the wonderful thing that is the BBC. I think i'll take BBC radio 4 with me to a deserted island. Maybe they should put a paypal donate link on their homepage. I'll do anything to keep enjoying this forever.
"... Didn't some Israeli govt dept recently switch to Linux precisely because of poor support for R to L scripts in Windows? I remember reading something about that, but I don't have it in front of me"
No. The only consideration for the Israeli goverment in this case was price. Actually no other software company invests as much efforts as microsoft in developing hebrew support for it's products. Even at it's current level Mozilla does not support hebrew in the level that internet explorer does (even though it's improving every day). BTW the Israeli goverment is sponsering a group which is migrating open office into hebrew with an intent to give it away free to every israeli who wishes to use it.
I don't think it's perfect. It's perfect if you are only interested in headlines and major happenings in the news. Since articles are ordered by their popularity and placement on their respective news sites, you only get to see what's happening now. What I like about newspapers are those offbeat stories that are not considered major news. For example: a story that takes an inward view of the hunger in Ethiopia wouldn't make it to the nytimes front page since it is not major news. We all know that their is hunger in Ethiopia, it is not something that has just now been discovered and so not considered as "Breaking News". If i am browsing google news the chance that will run into this article are very slim. This can also happen with articles regarding literature, arts, history and many other subjects, which for me are marks the boarder between Reporting and Educating. That why google news is not perfect, for me. Maybe this was not the intention of google news programmers that is why i don't put the fault on them. Google news is still a powerful and informative tool but not perfect.
One of the main reasons why PC games are less popular is that they are very easy to pirate. While consoles use their own media format (gamecube) or DVD (ps2,xbox), games that are shipped on regualr cd's are easier to pirate. In order to run a pirated game on a console you'll have to limit your self to a chopped version of the game either because DVD downloads are very big or because of the lack of a DVD burner. Gamecube piracy is even less common than the other two consloes because it uses a special format speciefically designed for that console. It is currently rumored that sony and ms will also use a unique media format for their next gen consoles as well. Besides, in order to run a pirated console game you need to buy a third party Mod Chip that will cancel your warranty the second it is installed on your console. Even though i see piracy as the main reason for weakness of PC gaming at retail their are of course other easier to point reason: - Consoles are cheaper than a mainstream PC - PC's have to be upgraded regularly in order to
achieve optimal performance. - Console games are run right out of the box - no
configuration needed. - Console games are less buggy. Many PC games
require numerous patched until they are finally
working the way they are meant to be.
Personally i am sorry to see this decline in PC game sales. As much as like console gaming, some genres will never work on a console , not to mention the user created content that is only available on a PC.
click here and tell me if their is a slight chance that will be able to find all this information in the brady guide...
FAQS are made by people who love the game they are writing about and are doing it for free. I think that is reason enough not to ever buy another game guide again. Besides that: they suck. What i like best about FAQS is the fact the you are sometimes able to find reference for little tidbits that you would never have noticed if you did'nt read about it.
I also think that gamefaqs has created a wonderful community of game lovers who love to discuss games. Take a look at the board for FFVII and you will be amazed to see that this game is still popular (very popular) 6 years after it had been released.
The only reason for buying a game guide could be the art, the problem is not too many guides have a good enough selction. One thing that guides can evolve too is a medium for publishing background information on the game your playing. They are already doing it in japan (surprise !). The best example could be the xenogears perfect works book which is highly sought after around the xenogears fan community.
BTW their is now a faq writer on gamefaqs trying to translate this thing.
I might have missed your metaphor for the lameness of the plot of xenogears, but i still find it as the most ambitious and successfull in trying to the deliver a plot that is a little bit
more clever and engaging than the average video games.
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Of course they like it. They also like downloading stuff off bit torrent.
Using ad block is like spitting back at the hand that feed you.
Sounds so simple when you say it liek this.
So this is just regualr life in Russia ?
Cool.
The ??AA can try to sue emugle which has been up for sometime now and functions as a search engine for the edonkey network. A network that, perhaps less useful for legal P2P, is still the worlds most popular P2P network.
The problem (not a really a problem in my view) is that this network is mainly used (and also based ?) in Europe, where it might be a little bit harder for the ??AA to throw it's menacing claws also known as lawyers.
I am sure that the ultimate goal would be to get rid of of all P2P search engines but if they are going to start with bitTorrent is will be funny that the first truly "evil" service will remain while the "Not really evil but could be used for evil purposes" service will go away.
I think I am going to copyright my house. Maybe there are some dollars in this competition for me too.
You do not provide a link to your site so i cannot say that for sure, but i guess that your site is not there to make money, or at least that was not your intention when you first created it. Try to set up a site that sells stuff for the kitchen and see how long it will take you to reach the top 10.
I am sure that 95% of the links to your site come from cooking related sites. An Seo company trying to promote a site like yours will jump leaps and bounds and will acquire links that otherwise would have never even thought of linking to your site. The sad thing right now, is that it works.
If I use a pay-per-click service like AdClick, then I can have my site temporarily higher on search results as well as increase Google's "confidence" in my site.
If this is the reason you use PPC, you are actually doing seo.
This also very much depends on which time period are we talking about. Nowadays, lots of sites especially in fields with high competition have to use Seo just because everyone else does.
I am sure that 95% of the links to your site come from cooking related sites. An Seo company trying to promote a site like yours will jump leaps and bounds and will acquire links that otherwise would have never even thought of linking to your site. The sad thing right now, is that it works.
Also, at the bottom of the article after the author's name, there's a link to some search optimization service's website.
Which means that he probably cares and knows about this stuff more than the average tech guy.
What you are saying might be true for well established sites or for someone that is offering content not yet available. But if some new fellow wants to enter the competition he can either wait a very long time so enough people would link out of their free will to his site, or, he can try and make the process a little faster. If you are talking about a business (and 99% of sites using seo are there to make money) this actually will decide if it will survive or not.
Personally, I think google, by publishing too much information about their Page Rank formula ruined there own search engine. Right now, for a lot of keywords, yahoo has much better results than google. I am not saying that they don't use incoming links as a part of their formula but the beauty of it, is that you can not know for sure.
I am still wondering if seo is here to stay.
The world of search can be very dynamic and it could result costing a lot of money for a business to keep up a good position and still not be satisfied with the results (which is a given since the formula will always try to counter new bad tactics). Besides, the only difficult thing about seo is to get lots of links. With the importance of inbound links declining there will be no need (as far as i can see) to hire an seo company.
Having good content an updating regularly are two things that any self respected business will keep doing if they want to stay in business anyway.
You can clearly see the amazing effect it had on his career. Just like the slashdot effect...
Just wait, in a couple of years he is going to say that he was understood upside down.
Who ?
The guy that got next-gen old address and turned it into a casino affilate site...
generaly speaking 90% of the services google currently offers are in some sort of beta phase.
The thing is that most of them worked quite perfectly right after launch. This seems to be the first one that has some serious bugs.
I guess that in the last couple of years the meaning of the term 'beta' has changed to a point where people still expect perfect functionality from a beta phase product. Or maybe just the level of the actual non beta products has deteriorated.
And this is where we return to the good and old BBS methods of yore. At least this way you know that you are rewarded for that uploading.
Even if the A380 is a huge succes, boeing could not afford to start developing its own version.
Simply, by the time it will be ready for commercial use the price of fuel (and as a result flight fares) will be so high, no airline would buy a jet that will be absolete in a couple of years.
If boeing wants to take care of their future (and ours) they should start putting some big efforts and piles of cash on developing a non oil dependant solution.
Before contract with BBC 1%
After contract with BBC 99%
I just can't see any other use for this player.
Thank god for real alternative
My thanks to the British people for paying for the wonderful thing that is the BBC. I think i'll take BBC radio 4 with me to a deserted island.
Maybe they should put a paypal donate link on their homepage. I'll do anything to keep enjoying this forever.
I'll tell you why:
Woman are for Venus
MAN are from Mars.
If the girls want to see Venus let THEM explore it...
"... Didn't some Israeli govt dept recently switch to Linux precisely because of poor support for R to L scripts in Windows? I remember reading something about that, but I don't have it in front of me"
No. The only consideration for the Israeli goverment in this case was price. Actually no other software company invests as much efforts as microsoft in developing hebrew support for it's products.
Even at it's current level Mozilla does not support hebrew in the level that internet explorer does (even though it's improving every day).
BTW the Israeli goverment is sponsering a group which is migrating open office into hebrew with an intent to give it away free to every israeli who wishes to use it.
I don't think it's perfect.
It's perfect if you are only interested in headlines and major happenings in the news.
Since articles are ordered by their popularity and placement on their respective news sites, you only get to see what's happening now.
What I like about newspapers are those offbeat stories that are not considered major news. For example: a story that takes an inward view of the hunger in Ethiopia wouldn't make it to the nytimes front page since it is not major news. We all know that their is hunger in Ethiopia, it is not something that has just now been discovered and so not considered as "Breaking News". If i am browsing google news the chance that will run into this article are very slim.
This can also happen with articles regarding literature, arts, history and many other subjects, which for me are marks the boarder between Reporting and Educating.
That why google news is not perfect, for me. Maybe this was not the intention of google news programmers that is why i don't put the fault on them. Google news is still a powerful and informative tool but not perfect.
I think i am controlled by a geek, all he wants me to do is read /. all day long.
One of the main reasons why PC games are less popular is that they are very easy to pirate. While consoles use their own media format (gamecube) or DVD (ps2,xbox), games that are shipped on regualr cd's are easier to pirate.
In order to run a pirated game on a console you'll have to limit your self to a chopped version of the game either because DVD downloads are very big or because of the lack of a DVD burner. Gamecube piracy is even less common than the other two consloes because it uses a special format speciefically designed for that console. It is currently rumored that sony and ms will also use a unique media format for their next gen consoles as well.
Besides, in order to run a pirated console game you need to buy a third party Mod Chip that will cancel your warranty the second it is installed on your console.
Even though i see piracy as the main reason for weakness of PC gaming at retail their are of course other easier to point reason:
- Consoles are cheaper than a mainstream PC
- PC's have to be upgraded regularly in order to
achieve optimal performance.
- Console games are run right out of the box - no
configuration needed.
- Console games are less buggy. Many PC games
require numerous patched until they are finally
working the way they are meant to be.
Personally i am sorry to see this decline in PC game sales. As much as like console gaming, some genres will never work on a console , not to mention the user created content that is only available on a PC.
FAQS are made by people who love the game they are writing about and are doing it for free. I think that is reason enough not to ever buy another game guide again. Besides that: they suck. What i like best about FAQS is the fact the you are sometimes able to find reference for little tidbits that you would never have noticed if you did'nt read about it.
I also think that gamefaqs has created a wonderful community of game lovers who love to discuss games. Take a look at the board for FFVII and you will be amazed to see that this game is still popular (very popular) 6 years after it had been released.
The only reason for buying a game guide could be the art, the problem is not too many guides have a good enough selction. One thing that guides can evolve too is a medium for publishing background information on the game your playing. They are already doing it in japan (surprise !). The best example could be the xenogears perfect works book which is highly sought after around the xenogears fan community. BTW their is now a faq writer on gamefaqs trying to translate this thing.
I might have missed your metaphor for the lameness of the plot of xenogears, but i still find it as the most ambitious and successfull in trying to the deliver a plot that is a little bit more clever and engaging than the average video games.
How the hell do they manage to read these magazines after taking quick pictures in "don't get caught" mode with these crappy cameras ?
Looking at this guy's username, his taste should match most of /. readers.