Archive for the ‘tech / internet’ Category

Search Engines

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Google seems much slower to pick up changes to my scarcely visited sites than yahoo, msn or altavista. Maybe this is because of its more intelligent alogrithms detecting that I’m not very important and it not checking my sites much, or maybe it is that google doesn’t bother trying that hard. I am also much lower down google’s rankings than I am on the other search engines. Could it be that google is getting complacent?

New mx5

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

This is looking like a good car, particularly like that they haven’t made it over complex or added too many unnecessary features. If you go to http://www.mazda.co.uk/mx5/ there is a flash mini site. When this was first made live it was full of mistakes, but it has been quickly updated and improved. I can still spot what I at least think is a mistake under features > handling. The first item is ‘consisten nimble feel’ I think they meant consistent. I tried to contact mazda about this and other mistakes, but couldn’t find a technical contact. e-mailing webmaster@mazda.co.uk gave me a bounce. On the subject of mistakes on major company websites, I’ve noticed quite a few recently, but they do seem to dissapear quite quickly. Its as if they do the proof reading after making it live!