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Google vs Yahoo

Google is clearly the better search engine overall - I've never had a problem with it. That was until I decided to syndicate some of its news feeds. Google has taken it upon themselves to provide their newsfeeds in html format. And its not even good HTML. Each item is packed with tables, and font tags where it would be simpler to just provide these news snippets as plain text. There is more than enough allowance in the RSS 2.0 specifications to allow for images to be placed outside the description, yet they fall down on this part. You'll find images placed besides news articles that are sometimes hardly relevant.

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2 comments April 27th, 2006

AJAX is evil

One of the talks whilst I was at the UK PHP Conference was on AJAX, and its downfalls. The talk was done by Harry Fuecks, someone whose opinion is respected within the online community. I've always been a bit wary of 'new' technologies when they surface, and the mad rush to implement them as they are 'cool'. Ajax is not exceptionally new. Internet Explorer was the first browser to implement the XMLHttpRequest protocol as an ActiveX object, way back in IE 5 circa 1999. However, its only been the recent use by certain big sites such a Google and Amazon that have made it more mainstream in the rush to implement it.

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Continue Reading 10 comments February 11th, 2006

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