As a MBA student I need to use Google through out the day for simple stuff, but I’ve never quite grasped the power of this tool. So, I did some homework on this tool, and copy pasting some tips from article that David Pogue published in NY Times. (Pogue is a column writer for NY Times’ weekly Circuits e-magazine.) Enjoy!
1. Download and install the Google toolbar. Not only does it put the Google search box into your browser full-time, but it also blocks pop-up ads and fills in forms for you.
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How many times have people said that your website is too slow?
Over last few months I have been facing this same problem. I browsed the web for answers, even went ahead and bought many books on Website Optimization. All of them more or less targeted the same issue of caching static contents using additional third party tools which improvises upon browser caching thus getting better performance and all that sort of stuff.
Analyzing the Website Performance
There were enough options to start that made me crazy as to which one to go ahead with, I wanted things to be under my control rather than adding complexities. For this I needed information as to what actually is traveling between my web server and web browser. I added loggers in my code to note the timestamps at server, even timed by database queries.
“Noarchive” meta tag is used when you want to prevent or remove cached pages in a search engine. This meta tag is known to work for all major search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com. It is also known that “noarchive” meta tag does NOT affect your search engine rankings or indexing, but only determines whether or not search engines will cache the crawled content.
The “noarchive” metatag can be used when a website publisher charges a fee for access to its content, and thus want to prevent content theft, but still would like the content to be indexed and ranked by search engines. Also it’s useful when the content changes frequently, and it’s not desirable to keep the outdated stale content cached by search engines for human access.
To prevent all search engines from showing a “Cached” link for your site, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
To allow other search engines to show a “Cached” link, preventing only Google from displaying one, use the following tag:
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
Note: This tag only removes the “Cached” link for the page. Google will continue to index the page and display a snippet.
WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?
Here’s a list various names that you have known
but possible haven’t understood what’s the meaning
Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the
house of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches
to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’
server — thus, the name Apache
Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months
late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple
Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.
CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.
Google - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information
the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’,
a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders,
Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to
an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web
from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with
the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in
‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the
programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to
as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.
HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company
‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they
had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
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