People always want to follow the latest fashions, whether in fashion, sports, things like that. Websites have become a necessity for almost everyone. Businesses, people, even young adults have created personal websites with their goals, whether for profit or for entertainment.
Often we come across a website with a festive appearance. Almost every corner of the web page filled with ads, banners or additional applications as web accessories. Continue reading ‘Website Mouse Trap’ »
Yahoo!, the original search engine on the Web, continues to be unique among search engines and directories. Yahoo listings are maintained by humans rather than algorithms. Each site submitted for inclusion is accepted or rejected by a Yahoo editor who actually views and evaluates the Continue reading ‘Submitting Your Website (1)’ »
When people look for things of interest to them on the Internet, they go to search engines and directories. A directory is a listing of category subject headings with Website listed under the specific categories. You browse through (often called “drilling down”) the categories until you find what you are looking for. Search engines, on the other hand, have a form in which you input keywords, and pages of results are displayed. The results are lists of Websites that pertain to the Continue reading ‘Search engines attention and ranking’ »
In a previous lesson, we discussed that Yahoo! was the first to use human editors. The Open Directory Project, partially in response to the commercial direction Yahoo! has taken over the last few years, was also founded on the principal of using human editors to review submissions. However, the Open Directory Project (abbreviated “ODP” and also referred to as “dmoz”) is committed to never charging a fee for reviewing submissions. The economic reality in applying that principle means that ODP uses volunteers and can often be excruciatingly slow Continue reading ‘Open directory project’ »