November 20th, 2009
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Google Chrome OS
About a half year ago, Google announced its new operating system project called Chrome OS. Today, prior to the release of this new operating system to netbook users, they’ve released an open source OS code named Chromium OS. It is a project that “aims to provide fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.” According to Matt Cutts blog’s recent post, the boot time of the newest OS reach at about 7 seconds only. Woah, that was fast right!?
Now, if you want to have a copy of the operating system at its early stage, you can go to http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os for the source code and instruction on how to implement it. Remember, the said Chromium OS are intended for netbook computers and requires you to have a Linux OS (like Ubuntu) to build it.
By the way, here is the video from Google Chrome’s official Youtube Channel. It contains stuff that discuss about what inspires the development of Chrome OS.
November 18th, 2009
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BlueHost
As I have mentioned on my previous post, I moved my site to BlueHost but some of my sites still remains with the old hosting, HostGator. Based on what I have found out the other day regarding how the hosting handle the sudden increase in traffic, BlueHost just passed to what I have expected. I compared two of my sites that made some traffic and Bleuken.com who gained at about 68,286 unique visitors in November 14 (Nov. 15 in the Philippines) didn’t suffer any 500/501 internal error server compared to my other Hostgator hosted site who gained only 42,504 unique visitors and made some 500 and/or 404 error.
I am really impressed with BlueHost’s capability to handle some unexpected traffic increase and really satisfied on its performance. I will continue to check on my hosting and just let you know if what I will find or experience something that is worth to mention. So if you might be looking for a good hosting for your website then I think BlueHost can be the right for you.
By the way for those who have experienced good or bad about BlueHost, feel free to leave your comments here and share your thoughts about this.
November 16th, 2009
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Speed Matters!
Here’s an interesting posts by Search Engine Land where it stated that Google are planning to introduce a new ranking factor and that is the loading speed. This mean that will consider fast loading websites to rank well on their search result pages. Matt Cutts said that this ranking factor might be implemented or take into consideration by the giant search engine by 2010.
Previously, he announced that the newest ranking algorithm codenamed “Caffeine” will be live on one of their data centers after the holidays. This mean by January 2010 and onwards they will start to push the changes to all of their data centers and expect for Caffeine to be on browsers worldwide. Fast search results rendering is expected from this change.
The following video shows the interview of Mike McDonald (WebProNews) with Matt Cutts mentioning about this topic:
November 14th, 2009
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Google Caffeine
That is right guys, Google announces the end of the sandbox to move to the release of the next search engine algorithm of the biggest search engine ever existed on the world wide web. According to Matt Cutts (from his blog) that they will move from the developer preview to going live using one data center.
Here is what he said from his blog:
I know that webmasters can get anxious around this time of year, so I wanted to reassure site owners that the full Caffeine roll out will happen after the holidays. Caffeine will go live at one data center so that we can continue to collect data and improve the technology, but I don’t expect Caffeine to go live at additional data centers until after the holidays are over. Most searchers wouldn’t immediately notice any changes with Caffeine, but going slowly not only gives us time to collect feedback and improve, but will also minimize the stress on webmasters during the holidays.
- Matt Cutts’ blog
Search engine optimizers and specialists get ready for this and be ready for the change on indexing structure and ranking of the sites.
November 11th, 2009
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Custom 404 Tips
There are some cases that visitors or even you misspelled URLs from your site when they try to visit a specific page on your website. Sometimes they use from other site that point to non-existing page or posts from your blogs or website. This happens when you delete a page or rename the permalink or URL of a page. This usually results to a 404 error response from your server or a “Error Not Found” page which is a blank page with a large text: “Error 404 – Not Found.” It will be like a dead end for your readers.
Now, for better user experience, you could customize the 404 page that will be involved for responding to this kind of situation. If you are using Wordpress as your CMS for your site, the 404 page is usually part of the theme of the site which you can easily customize by editing it on the theme editor found on the dashboard. The filename is usually 404.php or 404.html for non-Wordpress sites.
You can use the following Javascript from Google to the page to provide a search functionality and page suggestions plus URL fixer for the 404 page: (don’t forget to replace the GOOG_FIXURL_SITE value with the URL of your own site).
