Firefox: What Can I Say About This Elixir...???

This is TOOO much, I just have to tell someone even though I'm afraid that most people are just going to say, "Really, heck that's old news....!".

I was working with Firefox and had maybe 3-4 browser windows open. I was just posting a comment to a blog when the cursor froze. I didn't think too much about it because this new PC I'm using has been doing that now and then. It's either the Anti-virus app or the new firewall I'm running, or maybe they are squabbling behind the scenes...

Anyway, I'm trying to get the cursor to move again and "WACK", Firefox crashes! All windows close.

Great, more wasted time and now I probably won't try to remember what I wrote or what site I was on...$(!@$(*&(*$&*!

So I re-start Firefox and it knows it crashed and wants to know if it can restore the session (which one?) for me. I saw this once before, but didn't use it. So I say yes figuring that I can at least get back to the same site again.

Damn if it didn't restore ALL the open windows, take me back to the same page on the site I was on, AND restored all of the comment I was writing!!! NO LIE!

So, I now feel very impressed with Firefox, even more than I was before.

(hris

The Death Of SEO

I just read most of "Personalization And The Death Of SEO" here:

http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1644/

What makes me mad is that articles like this just create FUD for users and service providers alike.

In short, while search should get better, search engine optimization or SEO will not die as long as content can be optimized so people can find it. In it's pure form, this means making sure the content matches closely what people are looking for, so that when they search for things, your site appears.

Even if Search Engines start to somehow understand what it is you are looking for without you asking them, some connection between what you want and what is on the site must take place. As long as we have search as we know it, we will have SEO as we know it. Personalization is not going to change it much, but only make the search more targeted so people have an easier time finding what they really want.

And there is a point at which it is not practical for search to be very personalized. There is just too much data to take into consideration.

Here, take a look at this GEM from 2004: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/000089.html. It's more of the same chaff.

(hris