Comments on: “Apping for Dummies” is back! http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apping-for-dummies-is-back Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33955 Diwaker Gupta Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:28:51 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33955 *@kage*: you mean overhaul the design of the article, or this website? :-) Yes, a PDF version is on the way (actually a version is still available at http://floatingsun.net/data/articles/apping.pdf but probably outdated and not autogenerated anymore).

]]> By: Karthick http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33951 Karthick Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:16:53 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33951 Ok how about a design overhaul to that? and can you host a pdf/doc version too so that it would be easy to send out to people, you could put your copyright, but for people traveling around, the net’s not really very accessible.

Yes, I am talking about India.

]]> By: Siddharth http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33654 Siddharth Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:31:14 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33654 .. so maybe ‘G’ has some super cluster of machines & most efficient algorithms for crawling, Nevertheless , the thing that hurts the competition most is :Say I have to search for ‘_X_’ , I would typically fire my query on both ‘G’ &’Y !’ , for once if I find that the results on ‘G’ are more relevant/useful than ‘Y !’ …. next time I wouldn’t care to search on ‘Y !’ at all [perhaps going to wikipedia for specifics ] . I have been a huge Y! fan, but not sure, if it could take on G w.r.t search, what is your take on this.

]]> By: Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33585 Diwaker Gupta Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:30:41 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33585 *@sidhharth*: indeed it is. I was hoping Yahoo! is at least as fast, but unfortunately it isn’t :-( The blog post that mentions the article does show up on the first results page, but the article itself is nowhere to be seen. Now if only they had something like Google Sitemaps. I’m fairly certain that it wasn’t the case that Google’s crawler just happened to be crawling my site then — I think the crawl must have been triggered due to the Google Sitemap update that is sent every time new content appears.

*UPDATE*: Actually I take that back. My sitemap plugin pings _all_ major search engines including Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo all use the same Sitemap protocol, so it is certainly not a Google specific advantage. Sigh, I keep wishing that Y! will kick G’s ass some where some day but continue to be disappointed. :-(

]]> By: Siddharth http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33571 Siddharth Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:17:15 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/13/apping-for-dummies-is-back/#comment-33571 its now the first link for ‘apping for dummies’ on google :-)
google _is_ fast ! :-)

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