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Haddox
Flying Hellfish
Title: Pirate
Joined: May 11 2006
Location: The High Seas
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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Why are they being removed?
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 "Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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I will investigate this a bit this coming Tuesday. I'll be away until then (visiting some friends in Boston).
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Haddox
Flying Hellfish
Title: Pirate
Joined: May 11 2006
Location: The High Seas
Posts: 174
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No idea. My guess is that Google is moving away from HTML, and towards more dynamic content. Unfortunately, this is bad for searchers.
Have you ever searched for information on an obscure NES game, only to have the first few results be sites like Gamespot and Mobygames, and when you click on the link, there's no meaningful information, other than a release date and "SCREENSHOT NOT AVAILABLE"? Because those sites use RSS Feeds on every page, it appears to search engines that they are constantly updated and therefore must have some sort of meaningful content on the information you searched for, even though they don't.
Meanwhile, the Revolution X page hasn't been updated in at least a year.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
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| Haddox wrote: |
| No idea. My guess is that Google is moving away from HTML, and towards more dynamic content. Unfortunately, this is bad for searchers. |
Well that sucks because I in the habit of opening a new tab and typing "g" into my address bar and just hitting the down arrow to pick "google.com" to do my searches.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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Haddox
Flying Hellfish
Title: Pirate
Joined: May 11 2006
Location: The High Seas
Posts: 174
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On Firefox, I use Google, because Google is linked to the search box and I'm too lazy to change it.
On IE, I use Yahoo.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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Well Yahoo is not all that bad. I can check my Yahoo e-mail account and check the news at the same time. but I still prefer Google.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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Haddox
Flying Hellfish
Title: Pirate
Joined: May 11 2006
Location: The High Seas
Posts: 174
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Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of Google. If it was an ice cream flavor, it'd be vanilla.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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| Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of Google. If it was an ice cream flavor, it'd be vanilla. |
Vanilla is according to some Barenaked Ladies song..."the finest of the flavors." 
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16127
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| IceWarm wrote: |
| Haddox wrote: |
| Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of Google. If it was an ice cream flavor, it'd be vanilla. |
Vanilla is according to some Barenaked Ladies song..."the finest of the flavors." |
vanilla is my favorite as well.
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4637
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| username wrote: |
| IceWarm wrote: |
| Haddox wrote: |
| Honestly, I don't understand the appeal of Google. If it was an ice cream flavor, it'd be vanilla. |
Vanilla is according to some Barenaked Ladies song..."the finest of the flavors." |
vanilla is my favorite as well. |
Seconded, especially when mixed with strawberry.
If Google were an ice cream flavor, it'd be pralines and dick.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Posts: 1319
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No, Google would be pistachio - not everyone knows how to fully enjoy the flavor.
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You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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| I now bestow upon you the title of Most Awesome Person. |
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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There are really only 3 major search engines:
1. Google
2. Microsoft
3. Yahoo
The reason why I like Google the best is because they present their results in a very easy to read format and the results are usually what I am looking for.
Microsoft's results are usually "good" but their output is displayed in such a way that it really sucks. I hate how it looks and have a hard time following it.
Yahoo vs Google... I guess it comes down to associated accounts for me. I use my gmail/google docs/youtube all the time. It makes sense to me that I just go to one very uncluttered webpage for all of it.
Also, as Google improves their search algorithms to avoid people breaking and fucking with page ranks, Yahoo just kinda lets spammers fly. Yes, this means that sometimes Sydlexia.com's Orange Party won't be the first website on Google's list, but it does insure that general word searches that aren't based on titles/meta data will direct to more correct places.
Lastly, Google's news page is fucking awesome.
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
Joined: Apr 05 2007
Location: Under Jolly Roger
Posts: 2718
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Google kicks ass.
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"Well I don`t judge most things by graphics, reality has amazing graphics, and I don`t like it, that`s why I play video games." Laminated Sky on Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker |
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24882
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I think I should submit sitemaps to Google for the main sections of the site: Jeebus, Haddox, Site News, the wiki, and of course, SL Proper. Only problem is that I don't know how to do it. Anyone know how to generate sitemaps?
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SoldierHawk
Moderator
Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 6108
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And cue GP's answer in five...four...three...two...
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Dr. Jeebus
Moderator
Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| Nekkoru wrote: |
| No, Google would be pistachio - not everyone knows how to fully enjoy the flavor. |
I hate arrogant bullshit like this. Were you listening to Modest Mouse while you typed this on your Linux machine?
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dr.jeebus.sydlexia.com - Updated sometimes, but on hiatus!
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The three greatest heels in history...Andy Kaufman, Triple H, and Dr. Jeebus |
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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What about AltaVista?
I searched for "Top 100 nes games" and Syd took the 1st and 2nd result!
ADD ON: Fuck.... I searched for "Knyte's VGM" in AltaVista and my mini-blog on Destructoid took 1st and 2nd, Syd's Forum took 3rd and 4th, some site called "www.omgili.com" took 5th. and My offical Knyte's VGM site took 6th.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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AltaVista was purchased by Overture, then Yahoo bought them.
Yahoo's search uses a part of the technology included in AltaVista's patents, but not all.
Either way, this is an archaic search engine that doesn't really count in 2009.
There are 4 engines that I am aware of right now that actually matter:
1. Google
2. Live (Microsoft)
3. Yahoo
4. Ask
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I acually have more luck finding things in Alta Vista lately than with Yahoo or Google. Archaic or not, it works. Like swords.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24882
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What about sitemaps? Let's get back to the important stuff...
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Hacker
Banned
Joined: Sep 13 2008
Posts: 3129
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There are sitemap creators out there
just google it
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
Joined: Apr 05 2007
Location: Under Jolly Roger
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| hacker wrote: |
There are sitemap creators out there
just google it |
I see wat u did thar
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| What about sitemaps? Let's get back to the important stuff... |
They are important, but you would really only use them to link the major branches of a website.
Each major branch should have their own link trees that can be crawled.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
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| Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
| Nekkoru wrote: |
| No, Google would be pistachio - not everyone knows how to fully enjoy the flavor. |
I hate arrogant bullshit like this. Were you listening to Modest Mouse while you typed this on your Linux machine? |
What do you have against Modest Mouse?! 
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