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Google shuts down ad-hoc online consulting service.
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Tycho:  I uploaded the comic early, as many of you noticed.  I entered the wrong number in the update field.  You may also have noticed that the spelling in these posts has really gone to hell.  So, that's numbers and letters.  I hope to one day discover a set of pictograms with which I can manage some baseline fucking proficiency.
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Joshua Eichorn is back today with the answers to the questions as posed by the readers of his blog previously.   Your AJAX answers from my AJAX questions post are below, I hope everyone finds them helpful.   The questions answered include:  How can I find out whether a connection is broken? Why would you want to use HTML_AJAX when there are far better tools for the job, pure javascript solutions such as prototype or jquery? What is the best way to 'degrade' a website when Javascript/XMLHttpRequest support is disabled? When utilizing an AJAX API such as Google Maps, how do you execute embedded Javascript commands in a page generated on-the-fly?    ...as well as a few more. Where appropriate, he also includes code to help illustrate his point.
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GMail changed many things for me. I started using webmail again. Redirected most of my pop mail ids to GMail for easy accessibility from any computer.
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I&#8217;m not sure if the Google Ajax Search widgets are new or not, as Google has been developing web publisher widgets based upon Google API&#8217;s for a while, but the implementation of such Google Ajax Widgets is getting easier and easier. In the same tradition of Google AdSense&#8217;s Related Links, content supplied by various Google Search [...]
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By Garry Bushell  A BIG thank-you to Virgin for closing my email account without warning. All the nice reviews I'd written of Jo Brand and Louis Walsh were lost forever. Any company able to supply a better internet service, please feel free to get in touch.
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It seems  PubSub.com is offering a bounty  on an HTTP Delta implementation of RFC 3229.  This seems in response to the current meme  of RSS and Atom syndication bloat.   First off this is certainly *very* generous of them.  I'd like to see this happen more.  Good for you guys!  I myself  have thought that HTTP Deltas were a viable solution but I was wrong.  Of course most people aren't familiar with HTTP deltas.  Eseentially what an HTTP delta enables is a client/server differential protocol that can exchange a patch from the server to the client.  The client is then patched and it will then have the updated version without having to transfer the *entire* document again.  For example say you ...
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Clash of the Titans - When Search Engines Collide  Billions of pages going to trillions. Most of the information available online is replicated again and again, then twisted, corrupted and re-entered. When one search question retrieves one million answers, the system fails -- results have little or no value.  Now that the ...
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Over at Search Engine Watch Forums, a member asks about Ask.com&#8217;s Sponsored Listings and the quality of traffic coming from them. Seems that results are ranging based upon quality of the keywords chosen and campaign targeting, here are some of the responses in the mix: We get decent results from Ask. However, it takes some work. You [...]
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By Patrick May and Brandon Bailey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 2--They're running out of answers.   And they're running out of ocean.   While the U.S.
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Found in the search marketing forums: What Does it Take to Get to the Top?; How Does Punctuation Effect SEO?; PPC Issue with Google Analytics; and more.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. users in the U.S. lost access to Google Web sites on Tuesday in a connectivity issue that lit up the blogosphere but whose causes remain unclear. An undetermined number of Google users that connect to the Internet via a specific service provider "experienced problems accessing Google and other services for a short period of time" on Tuesday, a Google spokesman said via e-mail. "Google engineers helped troubleshoot the problem and provided diagnostic information to the ISP. We believe the issue has since been resolved by the ISP," the spokesman wrote. Postings in discussion groups and blogs seems to indicate the problem hit the northeastern part of the U.S. the hardest, specifically Boston, and that the ISP in question is Comcast Corp. The Google spokesman didn't specify which ISP caused the problem and a Comcast spokeswoman reached by phone could not confirm that her company had experienced a connectivity problem. (Grant Gross in Washington DC contributed with the story.)
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Found in the search marketing forums: Why PR Doesn't Count Anymore; Which Comes First - Content or Design?; If Google Died Tomorrow; and more.
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People who think their instant messages disappear after being sent should think again.
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Found in the search marketing forums: In-House SEM Ineffective? Give Me a Break; Realistic Expectations; Questions on PPC Copywriting; and more.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 10--You go to Google and get your search results -- then what?   How do you know whether the sites Google returns can be trusted? You can't. It's you against the world.
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A persistent problem with the Web API is the Return-to-Sender issue. JavaScript is capable of alleviating it, but it's not always enabled by software vendors. By Jacques Surveyor. 1014