Dear Readers,
"Google Hacks" coauthor, Tara Calishain, has been thinking about the future of search engines.
Will pay-for-inclusion (revenue generating) models begin to dominate the scene? Will foreign governments flex their muscles even more and demand that certain types of information not be gathered? And how are we going to index all that dynamically generated content that's hidden away in online collections?
In a series of articles for O'Reilly Network, Tara explores these issues. We've just published the first installment, "Eight Search Engine C Changes," where she surveys the current search engine landscape, identifies the dominant questions, and shines a light into the mysterious caverns of online spelunking.
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In future articles she'll further investigate these caverns, drawing upon her experience and her crystal ball, to help you maneuver the search engine maze. If you're a fan of her "Google Hacks" book, or are fascinated by these technologies in general, I think you're going to enjoy what Tara has to say.
Until next week,
Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Technical Editor
derrick@oreilly.com
Eight Search Engine C Changes
Tara Calishain, coauthor of Google Hacks, offers her first
installment in a multi-part series on the latest developments
for search engines and online data collections. In this article,
Tara ponders the future direction search engines may take. How
might pay-for-inclusion programs and other revenue generators,
for example, change the way we search?
Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain distribution is a suite of Unix
utilities that work with the Domain Name System. While the nslookup
and dig utilities are a part of the BIND distribution, the named
DNS server is what people most often refer to as BIND. The DNS
server portion is what we will be focusing on here.
XML Transactions for Web Services, Part 1
This first article in three part series describing transactional
web services introduces the service oriented architecture,
federation of web services, and the need for coordination and
transactions.
.NET Streams Explained
One of the common challenges facing beginning .NET programmers is
the large number of classes in the .NET Class Library. Looking for
the correct class to use for file handling can be confusing. There
are many classes in the System.IO namespace, each looking not much
different from the others. Wei-Meng Lee explains the differences
between the Stream classes.
Video Playback and Encoding with MPlayer and MEncode
No consumer Linux box is complete without the ability to play
digital video files. Until recently, this was difficult -- the
codecs weren't freely available or distributable. MPlayer seeks
to change this. KIVILCIM Hindistan introduces MPlayer and
demonstrates some of its features.
Stay on Top of the Latest Technology with News Feeds from O'Reilly
Learn how to set up and use RSS feeds to customize the information
you want delivered to your desktop or web application. This article
introduces you to RSS newsreaders, technology feeds available from
O'Reilly, and resources to help you set up your own RSS feeds.
Custom PMD Rules
The real fun of automated code analysis is writing your own rules.
In his third article on the PMD project, Tom Copeland shows two
approaches to detecting error patterns: writing custom Java code
and simple XPath expressions.
Synopsis 6
Damian Conway and Allison Randal bring you a handy summary of the
Perl 6 subroutine and type system, as described in last month's
Apocalypse.
Practical XQuery: Processing RSS
In the first article of our new XQuery column, Ivelin Ivanov shows
how XQuery makes light work of rendering multiple RSS files into a
single HTML page.
Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
You have a digital camera and have recorded the typical shots of
family and friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next
batch of digital images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey,
what type of camera do you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera.
A Custom JSP Tag Library for Dynamic Menus
Customizing your web site based on user preferences can be
difficult. You can go full-bore with JavaScript, or rely on some
sort of plugin language or applet. Prabu Arumugam demonstrates
another option for JSP users--a tag library that can render
dynamic, hierarchical menus defined in XML or a relational
database.
Virtual Hosts, mod_rendezvous_apple, and Apache on Mac OS X
In this article, Joe Maller shows you a three-step workaround for
serving locally-named virtual hosts to Rendezvous clients.
Cheap IP Takeover
Rob Flickenger offers a scheme for monitoring the health of a server
that lets another server take it over if it fails, using ping, bash,
and a simple network utility. Just another sample of the hacks you'll find in Rob's hot-selling O'Reilly book, Linux Server Hacks.
Apache Web Serving with Jaguar, Part 2
Mac OS X Hacks coauthor Kevin Hemenway continues updating his
original Apache Web Serving series of articles for Jaguar. In
this installment, Part 2, he explores the world of CGI access.
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