Learning from Mistakes
Following the abuse of Google query searches through hyperlink on Google's Holiday Logos, specifically the one on 1st January that opened the result page for query string "January 1 tcp/ip", Google has stopped putting hyperlink there.
The logo put for 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick had no links this time. This is what is called Learning from Mistakes
HTML 5 – What it could mean for Google and Browsers
Just got to read on Google Blogoscoped about the appearance of HTML5 working draft. After XHTML coming in light and XHTML 2.0 WD in development, the appearance of next version of HTML is indeed a surprise.
Previous versions of HTML has always been a subject of part implementation and properitery exensions by different browsers be it Internet Explorer or the Netscape. This version could be another attempt to include extensions by Google (favouring FireFox) and Apple (for Safari), though under W3C to justify and standardize them.
What HTML 5 could mean for Google
Google search results depends a lot on links to determine the importance of the linked page. To cope up with the problem of links arising out of unmoderated forums and blogs, google proposed Rel="NoFollow" that was followed by almost all blog and forum softwares and by a large number of social networking sites. With HTML 5 this is going to be a Standard. Further HTML 5 also tries to properly categorize the contents of the search pages by proposing more values for Rel attribute as under :
Rel="Search" : Google has developed various algorithm to remove duplicate contents, but Search pages which are just another form of duplicate content is still hard to track as their content being a collection of exerpts from various pages. If this options is exercised Google will filter a lot of duplicate content beforehand.
Rel="Tag" : The same as above applies for this also... a collection of duplicate contents.
Rel="Archives" : Same.. collection of duplicate content based on dates, months, year, authors etc.
Rel="Feed" : Same again, the duplicate contents!... though not useful for the search engine, would be of value for a feed reader!
Further Rel="Bookmark", Rel="Contact", Rel="License" etc. would be instrumental in filtering/categorising cached pages.
A few elements have been proposed in this draft to divide the body text, the most important being the <article> element and the <nav> element. If I were Google, I could easily parse an HTML 5 page to find out which links should carry more weight (you guessed right! those within article element!!) and which links to consider for placing in search results as SiteLinks! (from those within nav element)
What HTML means for Browsers
I am tired of guessing! Can you help with guesses here!!
(Don't be surprised if the FireFox and Safari are the first brosers to implement the HTML 5 standards, if it becomes one.)
Wordpress.com Blogs can now be Heard too!
Noticed almost a week late but better late than never, Wordpress.com Blogs can now be Heard too! Yes Wordpress now allows you to play audio files hosted elsewhere using a flash based player. Read more about it at Songs and Movies on WordPress.com
All you need to do is to add code similar to that below
[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3]
and you get a player that initially looks as that below
Want to hear that! Press the Play icon and the player expands playing the audio file.
Those are just the images above and the sample audio file with live player can be played below
| [audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3 bgcolor="transparent"] |
The next new addition to wordpress.com is the increase in the free storage space from 50MB to 3GB! So without worrying about space exhausting you can add as many Images, Docs, Presentations as you like. Did I miss something? MP3, MPG.... No I didn't! the free 3GB space doesnot allow you to upload these file extensions but you can upgrade by paying $20 to get extra 5GB space and freedom to upload audio and video files.
So it's time that your reader hear, not just read.
Windows Live Writer, Error during Install?
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