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Spoiler: Someone assumed to have shady intentions (like self-promotion or ripping people off) decides to create a new thread in a community of self-proclaimed experts, otherwise known as a forum). Instead of ignoring this person, members of the forum expose the creator of the thread and save the day. The thread creator proceeds to helplessly defend their thread and their intentions. The forum community decides that the creator of the thread is overreacting to their accusations. The forum community tells the creator of the thread to calm down so that the forum community can expose the problem in a more polite way. Sometimes a person decides to toss in few complements to soften up their criticisms. Nice of them to do so after forgetting to do their research before replying the first time. The Lesson: Don't try to promote your business in forums directly. If you insist on using forums, do it like the everyone else who knows how to fit in. You must become a member and build your reputation by replying to people. You should always reply to the people who you can easily beat because that will build your reputation faster than getting into long debates with intelligent people. After all, you might lose the debate and not only waste time but be publicly humiliated. Also, if you find anyone who is guilty of self-promotion you should definitely put them in their place as it is a quick way to build yourself up. Cliques are fun! If only you could join one without selling your soul to the idol of conformity at the cost of creativity.
Sure, the two companies recently announced a major deal. And yes, that deal does include something about Google helping to promote AOL. But does that mean Google will give AOL preferential treatment in their generic search results? No! How do I know this? The Google Blog tells me so. In their creative response to anonymous misconceptions Google explains that their goal is to catalog all of the worlds information and serve that information with integrity to their users. For all of you who need help reading text that isn’t there, Google left out the fact that sense they decided to partner with AOL they most likely think that is at least a little AOL useful. Google also failed to mention the order in which they will catalog all of the world’s information. I wonder if Google will decide to catalog AOL’s content faster and rank it higher because they believe it to be valuable? After all, they wouldn't be contradicting anything they said on their blog. For more anti-Google thoughts, go visit a website written by my role model: www.google-watch.org. For more anti-AOL thoughts..... you don’t really need my help finding them do you?
Burien, Wash. - December 22nd, 2005 -- FyberSearch has decided to go against the grain by drastically changing the style of it's search results. The vertical search tabs and other important links along the far left side of the search results. The actual results are located in the middle column with the advertisements continuing to be displayed along the left. One of the major benefits to this new design is the search results is the added space on the left column leaves a lot of room for future vertical search tools FyberSearch will be releasing. Another improvement is that the search results are directly under the search box allowing for easier navigation and cleaner look. An example can be found at http://www.fybersearch.com/search.php?q=internet. "I was trying to come up with a way to improve the style of the search results. While browsing our website I realized that almost every page had the menu bar located on the far left, the content placed in the center and a spot for the advertisements on the right. This appears to be the way quite a few sites are designed and is a style that Internet users have grown accustomed to." Says Nathan Enns, Founder & President of FyberSearch. "Why is it that close to every search engine I have ever used decided to design their search results in exactly the same way? After testing the new FyberSearch result pages I realized that navigating the search results is easier when it matches the way I am already used to navigating the web." About FyberSearch: FyberSearch is a search engine technology company founded by Nathan Enns in November 2003. FyberSearch’s mission is "To make the entire web useful to each individual by providing them with the control they need to receive the results they desire." FyberSearch develops new and unique search technology to assist people in finding information on the web. As of this writing FyberSearch has 13 advanced features and 5 distinct search engines. Nathan Enns, Founder and President Company: FyberSearch LLC URL: http://www.fybersearch.com Email: president@fybersearch.com Phone: 206-856-0101 ###
But FyberSearch isn't big enough to have ideas that big search engines can use!
Want to have some real fun? Try searching for Google.
Do you not trust Google or are you too cheap to pay for one of their professional researchers? Time for you to switch to Yahoo Answers and let random people who still probably know more than you do answer your question. What are people using Yahoo Answers for? Here is a short list of intelligent questions people ask at Yahoo Answers: 1. Why didnt he say anything when he knew I am online too?even when I said hello first?is he bored with me? 2. wut kinda girls are the most attractive...i am thinking about which girl i should like? 3. hi. is GOD man or woman? 4. How can I get my girlfriend to loose weight? Do people really think that smart people will take the time to get a Yahoo account and answer their question? Well, sense it is the holiday season I will answer the above questions. However, I will not be posting them at Yahoo because it would take longer to login than figure out the answers. 1. Get a PHD in psychology. Then you should have enough information to know he is probably both bored with you and busy with something else. After all, no one leaves their messenger running while they are away from their computer. Everyone changes their status to away first. 2. The hot girls are most attractive and the ugly girls are less attractive. Obviously we should ignore the fact that the definitions of ugly, hot and attractive be subjective. 3. If God is a man or a woman then God is a human and therefore, not God. 4. Get a new girlfriend or make her feel worse than she already does. When I browsed through Yahoo Answers I kept finding questions that made me want to stop writing this. Then I read the answers and wished there were some way to get Yahoo to take this service offline. I wonder if the people who ask the questions know when the answer to their question is incorrect?
However, the fact that I can relate to them is not the reason I like reading those threads. I am not exactly sure which is more fun: being happy that I have gotten over several problems they will soon face or getting a kick out of the sarcastic, cruel and/or ignorant replies. Take, for example, this thread about a new search engine called www.categorysearches.com. The irony of this thread is just awesome. On the one hand, you have a new search engine that could obviously (and easily) be improved. On the other hand you have a bunch of completely useless replies, some of which are insulting. It just so happens that his search engine went down and after reading through a few comments alerting him of this fact, I read this: "Sweet search engine. I searched for `google` and i got 0 results. Hotmail 0 thong 0 I like it becuse it brings up unexpected results. When you search normally you expect a list of sites but it just brings up a block of yahoo ads. Like it,,, Its like `the alternative` search engine. Silly P**** ;)" Obviously the guy trying to develop his own search engine is silly. Its not like something as complex as a search engine could go down at unexpected and inconvenient times. I wonder if not thinking well, spelling incorrectly AND insulting the owner of the search engine will magically make the programming error go away? I didn’t see a single comment in that thread that told the guy what he could do to make his search engine better. So, even though I am fully aware he will probably never see this post, I am going to give him a list of things he could do to improve it: 1. Remove the old lady from the logo. 2. Don’t announce your search engine to people using the phrase “trick or treat” sense as you can see it leaves you wide open. 3. Don’t pretend that a better host will make your search engine perfect. I tried it and it just doesn’t work. You need more of computers all interconnected extremely well no matter how many you have. 4. Write a web crawler that can catalog a list of submitted URLs because relying on people to accurately describe their website and not try to cheat is way too much to ask. 5. Style the search results like people are used to seeing search results. Right now I feel like I am looking at a MySQL database via PhpMyAdmin... 6. Make your site more obvious than the advertisements on it. 7. Make the titles of your website shorter because your search engine has cataloged them. 8. Reword the sentence at the bottom of the front page because it is confusing. 9. Most importantly, don’t let ignorant people stop you from doing what you want. If you aren’t that great at certain things people will focus on them to feel better about themselves. If you are perfect people will bend reality, play with language and destroy logic to make sure there is at least one flaw. The lesson: don’t take people seriously, they are probably lying or genuinely believe they are telling you the truth but are incorrect anyway. Even if they are correct, their advice probably doesn’t apply to you sense there are always differences in each persons perspective and situation.
Yes! Now everyone who just installed FyberSearch plugins can get rid of them by upgrading to Firefox 1.5. Firefox developers are obviously more thoughtful than the people who developed Internet Explorer. You would think that a browser famous for appealing to the people who spend all day using a computer would be able to save your plugins when you upgrade. I guess it is easier to take market share away form Internet Explorer than write a program able to save two plugin files located in a folder labeled "plugins".
There! I did my best to pretend that it was news, to pretend that his reasons are mysterious/unfounded and to pretend that his website might suffer from a loss in traffic. Should I have acted emotional about this issue as well? I would fit in with the people expressing their feelings of sadness, anger and depression as a response to his announcement. In case you have no clue what I am talking about, go read every comment in this thread at WebmasterWorld. By the way, you will have to create an account before you can read anything. I love it when forums make me login first because I feel like I am get to be part of their community.
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