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by noibl 16y ago
OK, I understand what you mean now. :)
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by noibl 16y ago
My point was that the algorithmic conclusion 'oh well, let's just print it anyway, since it's from Google' is pretty weighty on its own.
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by noibl 16y ago
They're talking about their top-ranking result being used. Are you suggesting that Google place garbage as the top-ranking Bieber result for visitors who use the toolbar?
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by noibl 16y ago
Where are you getting point 2 from? In many cases where they have no other data, they clearly weight Google's single data point high enough to create a whole SERP around it. The claim that 'this is just one input among many' implies that so
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by noibl 16y ago
A common counter-argument seems to be 'But this effect only happens when there are no other sources of relevance data'. Well... 'over the next few months we noticed that URLs from Google search results would later appear in Bing wit
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by noibl 16y ago
This is the classic case of saying 'I'm all for it as long as you can get everyone else onboard' when you believe that their chances of doing so are nil. If they managed to do it, your position would then be dictated by events anyway. Askin
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by noibl 16y ago
document.ready fires before window.load
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by noibl 16y ago
I wish people would stop downvoting comments because they don't agree with them. This contributes. I want to see things like this and the sibling comments to mine, even if they're wrong. Stop breaking the conversation with mindless downvote
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by noibl 16y ago
Yeah: In a nicely Pharaonic touch, one of the six ducts going into the ground here is the sole property of President Hosni Mubarak, or (presumably) whoever succeeds him as head of state. It is hard to envision why a head of sta
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by noibl 16y ago
The reason is that Oracle inherited the stewardship of so many important projects when they bought Sun. After the purchase they have not said 'OK guys, new management; we don't do the open source thing; so long.' Rather they put the knife i
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by noibl 16y ago
The closest analogue I can think of is Undrln: http://www.undrln.com but it doesn't get anywhere near as much traffic as it did a couple of years ago, unfortunately.
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by noibl 16y ago
So far my internal requests for more information have been ignored. So who are you to be writing posts about it then? Maybe you need an anonymous tipster within TC to deliver the scoop.
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by noibl 16y ago
The idea of hard coding a URI, like is done for robots.txt is a bad idea. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. -- http://bitworking.org/news/No_Fishing Fair comment here[1] about the specific case of robots
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by noibl 16y ago
Aw, spare a thought for the left-handers.
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by noibl 16y ago
See Paul Irish's comment: http://adamcecc.blogspot.com/2011/01/javascript.html?showCom...
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by noibl 16y ago
The CSS-based techniques both work in IE6, which is pretty amazing. And you can combine them. But don't use inline styling. Bury the rules in the cascade with some parent class so they can't be easily filtered.
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by noibl 16y ago
I'm guessing this is in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2128263 1: One of Google's major weaknesses is the concentration of its revenue around a few large websites. Having the most popular advertising network on the web (A
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by noibl 16y ago
Another reason is that it's written by a guy who has studied this company for years, interviewed Schmidt eleven times and links to his own Google book in the body of the article. Freelance tech journalism, this ain't.
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by noibl 16y ago
One misconception that we’ve seen in the last few weeks is the idea that Google doesn’t take as strong action on spammy content in our index if those sites are serving Google ads. That's not quite what I've been reading. I believe the mor
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by noibl 16y ago
> The reason YouTube encodes different versions is mostly for bandwidth No. For example, to support iPhone prior to v4, they have to encode using the Baseline profile because that's all those devices support. The less complex h264 profi
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by noibl 16y ago
> They could have simply not bought WebM, saved $100 million, and they would not have the storage problem. Is it not the case that even using just h264, Youtube currently has to store several encodings using different codec profiles in
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by noibl 16y ago
> The only operative difference between the two codecs is that WebM is free. by moving many features of the codec into postprocessing, the video format becomes scalable; a decoder can do “less work” while still playing back the file, a
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by noibl 16y ago
I hope the author of this 'email from a reader' gets a cut of the ad revenue from its publication in whole, or they'll have two reasons to feel bitter. TC--
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by noibl 16y ago
The problem is that it's a tug-of-war situation and in a tug-of-war, you win by passing a minimum threshold; there's no such thing as a runaway victory. Rather than leading to a kind of informational meritocracy, what you're talking about l
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by noibl 16y ago
While technically feasible, this would rule out a large number of high quality content sites which are currently ad-supported. For example, specialist community forums often carry ads just to cover costs. You need to allow for a different f
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by noibl 16y ago
In a lot of the comments around this lately, people have been saying that this is something Google can fix, or needs to fix. I would suggest that the content farms' success in gaming specifically Google's algorithm was an inevitability (wha
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by noibl 16y ago
Adobe and Macromedia are important partners in this segment. It also mentions a partnership with Canal+, which turns out to be from 2001. I think this page could use an update, and doesn't really shed much light on Opera's revenue.
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by noibl 16y ago
Interesting... an opt-out-per-site rather than opt-in-per-site version of Chrome Frame.
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by noibl 16y ago
Great info, thanks. Before seeing this I was having a tendency to think of Europe, North America and Oceania as somewhat homogeneous WRT browser market share. While it seems the UK (and also Ireland[1]) does follow the other two regions, th
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by noibl 16y ago
That's a pretty harsh judgement on the field of paleozoology, there.

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