Flash based search? Which of the sites mentioned in the article use flash?
Secondly, ignore the 2.0 branding crap, it's a simple way for PR people to get the idea of "New and Improved" across.
Google is great and all, but something tells me that people aren't patient enough to sift through the results to find what they want. However, search engines like Swiki and Wink that allow users to contribute to the results can greatly increase the possibility of finding what you want.
This may be redundant, but here is your "zero proof". And if you don't want to read the article, here are some stats from the ESPN.com redisgn:
The Savings Add Up
Page reduction (est.): 50KB
Page views/day: 40,000,000
Projected bandwidth savings:
2 terabytes/day
61 terabytes/month
730 terabytes/year
I'm sure there are more examples, but the numbers should speak for themselves. Also, this is a very high profile case, it doesn't necessarily apply to everybody. I will say that moving towards XHTML, CSS, accesability standards, and W3C standards does make web design easier for me personally. These standards that are in place primarily to aid usability, search engine optimization and bandwidth savings are a nice side-effect.
Furthermore, why should one need to promote better standard compliance with lies? Designing with standards make it easier on multiple parties, like the handicapped, mobile device users, designers and developers, and even the search engines. This isn't some political campaign, nobody will benefit (ie: money) from lying about web standards.
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Flash based search? Which of the sites mentioned in the article use flash? Secondly, ignore the 2.0 branding crap, it's a simple way for PR people to get the idea of "New and Improved" across. Google is great and all, but something tells me that people aren't patient enough to sift through the results to find what they want. However, search engines like Swiki and Wink that allow users to contribute to the results can greatly increase the possibility of finding what you want.
The Savings Add Up
I'm sure there are more examples, but the numbers should speak for themselves. Also, this is a very high profile case, it doesn't necessarily apply to everybody. I will say that moving towards XHTML, CSS, accesability standards, and W3C standards does make web design easier for me personally. These standards that are in place primarily to aid usability, search engine optimization and bandwidth savings are a nice side-effect.
Furthermore, why should one need to promote better standard compliance with lies? Designing with standards make it easier on multiple parties, like the handicapped, mobile device users, designers and developers, and even the search engines. This isn't some political campaign, nobody will benefit (ie: money) from lying about web standards.