Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Preventing Comment Spam
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, which Google don’t like, and they have been testing a new tag that blocks it.
NoFollow Attribute
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Google hopes that the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute and they’re pleased that a number of blog software makers have already done it.
NoFollow Example Link
Modified link should look like following:
Visit my <a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
More Details
Here are some useful links of some useful resources.
Search Engines
http://www.google.com
http://www.mamma.com
http://www.askjeeves.com
http://search.yahoo.com/web
http://search.msn.com
http://www.fireball.de
http://www.Aesop.com
http://www.EntireWeb.com
http://www.InfoTiger.com
http://www.Subjex.net
http://www.ScrubTheWeb.com
http://www.WebSquash.com
http://www.SearchEngine.com
http://www.SearchIt.com
http://www.SurfSafely.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.mylivesearch.com
Image Stock and Image Search Engines
http://www.thinkstock.com
http://www.imagebank.com
http://verseguru.com/?desktops
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.indexstock.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://openphoto.net
http://www.comstock.com
http://www.shutterpoint.com
http://www.hebus.com
Web Banners Inspiration
http://www.bannersmall.com
Flash Learning
http://www.were-here.com/homepage/default.asp
http://www.actionscript.org
http://www.flashdevils.com
http://www.ultrashock.com
http://www.flashkit.com
Webdesign Standards
http://www.w3.org
http://maxdesign.com.au/presentation/checklist.htm (Web Standards Checklist)
http://www.w3.org/2002/03/tutorials
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
http://www.cssbeauty.com/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ (css2 guide)
Color Scheme Help
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html
http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/ilu_1.asp
http://www.colorschemer.com/download.php
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
http://www.colormatch.dk/ good tool
http://www.myth.com/color/snake.html Color meanings
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And there they authenticated from human whether I was a human or any alien and then next session and I got my search results. What exactly was my search query? It was php screen resolution checking script.
I wonder whether search requests should be authenticated or not? Might any senior developer has answer? What do you think?
Everyone related to computer somehow sometimes feels need to search photos/images, specially designers do more…
I design a lot. I need to get inspiration. Sometimes I search for royalty-free good quality images to use in my work. I have a list of some good search engines which are specific for image related search. I thought someone might find it useful.
http://www.thinkstock.com
http://www.imagebank.com
http://verseguru.com/?desktops
http://www.deviantart.com
http://www.istockphoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu
http://www.indexstock.com
http://www.imageafter.com
http://openphoto.net
http://www.comstock.com
http://www.shutterpoint.com
http://www.hebus.com
I visit these for quality image search. You know how you fulfill your needs for images (get images from CD; get these from Google or anywhere else). Share resources for top fine quality image search with me.
To avoid accidental clicks Google has made some changes in format of AdSense Ad Units now.
Previously, visitors could click on the background and full text of an ad, but now they can click only on the title and URL of a text ad. No longer valid are clicks on the background and clicks on the text that is not the title or URL in the ad.
In an advertiser point of view, this is good! but many publishers think it will decrease a lot of adsense earnings by decrease in click-through rate. But I think this preventive measure will put quality in advertisement for advertisers.
The reasoning given by AdSense for change in their text ad formats is to help reduce accidental clicks, increase value for advertisers and improve advertiser campaign value. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an ad. This change will enhance the user’s overall experience with your websites.
I think it makes sense and is a good step. No good webmaster even wants user to accidently click ad and go away. Instead a good webmaster or blogger wants to give more valued content and information. The only purpose of ads is not to earn but also give users other valuable resource to explore, in the case they want it. It is all on user’s choice.
However this important format change in AdSense text ad must be in mind of publisher, advertiser and user as well.
