The Top Searches of 2002
(Based on Danny Sulivan’s newsletter)
2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - A look back at what people searched on at Google, over the past year.
Dragonball: Web’s Most Wanted 2002 - What people searched on at Lycos in 2002. Note that in a week or so, you’ll have to go to the archives and [...]
Some Resources on Open-Source Discussion Forums
Sourceforge.net FuseBox-based Open Forum
This page is an example of doing recursive joins for a forum:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q120899-1.shtml
with a follow-up here:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q121799-1.shtml
Another post about threaded discussion forums database design:
http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1353
with a follow-up here:
http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1602
Some good SQL sites to check out:
http://www.dbmsmag.com/index.shtml
http://www.codebits.com/ntm/
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/07/12/aboutSQL.html
http://www.sqlteam.com/Default.asp
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/
http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers/database/
http://www.databasejournal.com/
http://www.sqlmag.com/
IT Haiku
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku Poetry has strict construction rules–each poem has only 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, [...]
Today’s catch:
Internet Search Engines Database
How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated
Syndicate Your Page (courtesy of Vinay)
Free online Validators for:
HTML
CSS
RSS Feeds
Accessibility Guidelines
A few interesting articles on Google and website optimization for search engines:
Google’s PageRank
WebWorkshop
The life of a web page in Google
Cre8asiteforums
Jakob Nielsen’s AlertBox:
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2002
And the news of the day:
Yahoo! to Acquire Inktomi
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