
Best of the Web – August
September 4th, 2009 admin

August was a month filled with excellent articles from around the Net. We can always rely on major companies to provide some interesting fodder for developers; Yahoo! started suggesting Firefox users try IE8 and Google unveiled a faster, sleeker search engine.
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Google has released a test version of its main search engine that the company claims is faster and more accurate than its current search page. Unlike some previous experiments and changes that tweaked the user interface for Google Search, this release is focused on the backend, with changes that are designed to improve results. According to a...

Google has carried out it’s threat to shut down the Google.cn search engine following its censorship dispute with the Chinese Government. All users are now redirected to the Hong Kong-based Google.com.hk . Although Hong Kong is part of China, it retains a level of independence and its search engine delivers uncensored results. Google’s...

Effective searching is a powerful skill. Think about how often you jump over to Google to look something up during your day. If you understand the nuances of a search engine, you have the ability to find what you’re looking for quickly, and potentially find information you may not have specifically thought about but adds value to your query....

Yahoo has announced that two of it’s search engine-powered web services will be officially closed on 31 August 2009: Term Extraction — a service that provides a list of significant words or phrases extracted from a larger document, and Contextual Web Search — a service which allows you to search the Internet for web pages using...

Despite Yahoo’s recent profitability problems, the company has continued to invest in several innovative and technically-stunning projects. These include: SearchMonkey : a system that allows site owners to publish structured data that provides more useful and visually appealing results within the Yahoo search engine
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If you want to know what a chorus of angry Firefox users sounds like, just make them think you’re taking away their browser add-ons. A blog post from Mozilla’s Mike Connor , one of the company’s key browser developers, made waves Saturday and Sunday in the Firefox world for suggesting that scenario. While Connor didn’t explicitly...

Tracking and studying searches on your site is a valuable part of site analytics , but many site owners underestimate the benefit of it. Website search analytics can provide advantageous insights into what people are looking for on your site and also what your site looks like in search engine results. In this guide, we’ll go over the fundamentals...

On May 18, 2010, in a note on the Associated Content blog, Luke Beatty — AC founder — announced the community was acquired by Yahoo!. Associated Content was founded in 2005 by Luke Beatty and publishes and distributes more than 50,000 original articles, audio and video contents every month provided by its contributors. With this move, Yahoo plans...

Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter have been profitable for companies using the services and those running them. Although everyone would prefer their site to appear prominently in natural search engine results, SEO is not an exact science. It can be cheaper, easier and quicker to pay for adverts in the sponsored listings....

September was yet another exciting month for web developers. New Javascript libraries, major acquisitions, and monster open source projects were some of the things that happened as Summer died out. And that’s not including the usual plethora of excellent tips and articles published from top-notch web development sites. Read on for some of...
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