Archive for October, 2005
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
SEO Tips From Google Staffers
Rob Sullivan sent me his latest article the other day. It’s an interesting write-up of the answers Google employees gave to questions put to them on a recent conference call.
Much of it you may already feel you “know,” but it’s always valuable to learn exactly what those with the facts say about your suspicions, and there’re some useful comments from Rob as well.
The Good and the Bad of SEO From Googles Mouth!
I recently had the opportunity to ask questions of some Google staffers. There were some questions I felt I needed to get verification on, so when I had the opportunity via a conference call I took it.
In this article I highlight some of the points made during the call so you know what Google thinks.
You know its bad when you take time from your holidays to come into work to attend a conference call. But that’s what I did a few weeks ago. You see I had to because I was going to have the opportunity to ask some Google employees specific questions on things that I’d been pretty sure about, but wanted to hear it right from the horses mouth.
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Thursday, October 6th, 2005
Free Web-Based Office Applications
As I mentioned at the end of my previous post, [Google & Sun Microsystems Cross-Promotional Partnership->], there are now several web-based competitors to Microsoft Office applications.
One I’ve been hearing quite lot about recently is ThinkFree Online.
ThinkFree Office is a platform independent suite of Microsoft Office compatible-applications in Java, similar to Sun’s OpenOffice.
The software is designed to look, feel and behave like Microsoft Office, but unlike OpenOffice, it’s not free. It’s much cheaper than Microsoft Office though, and can be hosted on intranets, where the software is launched from the server to the user’s desktop via a web browser.
With ThinkFree Online, ThinkFree have taken this idea a step further and now offer a free web-based version of ThinkFree Office.
According to the site, users are able to access:
- Write, ThinkFree’s word processing application, which uses Microsoft Word’s .doc file format. Write has most of Word’s features, and even retains the user interface that Word users are comfortable with.
- Show, a powerful application for creating presentations that is highly compatible with Microsoft Powerpoint. Powerpoint users will feel right at home with Show’s robust feature set, which includes graphical tools, dozens of animations and transitions, and of course use of the .ppt file format.
