Yahoo and the New Index

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Yahoo Announces New Index

Yahoo Announces New Index 04/03/2005 04:02 PM
Yahoo took a tip from Danny Sullivan and announced on their blog when they would be updating their search index. The answer, as you can see at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000095.html , was...

Yahoo! Buzz Index

Yahoo! Buzz Index 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
Yahoo! Buzz Index has RSS feeds....

Yahoo Releasing New Index Tonight

Yahoo Releasing New Index Tonight 04/02/2005 04:39 AM
Addict3d.org Apr 2 2005 8:17AM GMT

Yahoo! Search Index Update

Yahoo! Search Index Update 06/24/2005 07:41 PM
"This is our second weather report. We will be making changes to the index..." "...so you should be seeing more of your pages in the index as well as some fluctuations in the rankings of results from previous searches."

Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot
on Its Index

Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot
on Its Index 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Yahoo said that it would start charging companies that want to ensure that their Web sites are included in its Web index.

Second Weather Report: Yahoo! Launching
New Search Index Tonight

Second Weather Report: Yahoo! Launching
New Search Index Tonight 06/24/2005 03:05 PM

Google expands Web index as Yahoo begins
to cut ties with longtime partner

Google expands Web index as Yahoo begins
to cut ties with longtime partner 02/18/2004 01:00 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Feb 18 2004 5:08AM GMT

Z-Index

Z-Index 09/15/2004 05:47 AM

Over on webst andards.org I found a link to a guide to z-index according to the CSS2.1 specification. Click here to see this guide.

I mention it because it accuses both the Gecko and KHTML engines of violating the CSS spec, but in reality the author simply does not understand how auto z-index works in CSS2.1.

Stacking contexts are established in three ways in modern browsers:

(1) The root element gets a context.
(2) Elements with opacity < 1.0 establish a stacking context (and a z-index of auto is changed to 0).
(3) A positioned element with a z-index other than auto establishes a stacking context.

In other words, being positioned (absolute/fixed/relative) does not mean you establish a stacking context! You must also have a non-auto z-index.

The normal flow contents of positioned elements with auto z-index are sorted in an enclosing stacking context as though they had z-index 0. Document order breaks ties. This is specified in section 9.9.1 of the CSS2.1 specification.

... a stacking level for positioned descendants with 'z-index: auto', and any descendant stacking contexts with 'z-index: 0'...

So in this example you have 4 blocks, two of them relatively positioned and two absolutely positioned.

The two relative positioned blocks each contain absolute positioned descendants. Because the two RP blocks have the same z-index (auto), they are sorted in document order. RP1 is therefore below RP2. AP1, the absolute positioned block inside RP1, has a z-index of 1. This guarantees it will be above both RP1 and RP2, since it is sorted in the root element's stacking context at a z-index of 1. RP1 and RP2 render just above the normal flow (z-index 0) level of the root stacking context, and therefore will always be below AP1 if it has a positive z-index defined.

Therefore the assertion that AP1 should render below RP2 is false, and Mozilla and Safari have the correct rendering.

In this example, Safari 1.2 on Panther does violate the spec regarding the positioning of AP2. AP2 should render above RP1 and RP2 in the example but below AP1. Internal Safaris actually render this correctly (we fixed this bug a long time ago actually), so future releases of Safari will be correct.

In the next example, both Mozilla and Safari have the correct rendering. The claim that only IE gets it right is false. IE gets it wrong. The RP blocks have a z-index of auto, and so they are below all of the absolute positioned blocks with positive z-indices in the root's stacking context.

The following quote should additionally make this clear. It's also from the CSS2.1 spec, section 9.9.1.

The root element forms the root stacking context. Other stacking contexts are generated by any positioned element (including relatively positioned elements) having a computed value of 'z-index' other than 'auto'.

In other words, when a block has auto z-index, it does not act as a stacking context for other positioned descendants.

So in the next example, Mozilla and Safari are once more correct. Because RP1 now establishes a stacking context, AP1 is sorted only within RP1's stacking context. RP1 is then sorted with AP2 in the root's stacking context. RP1 has a z-index of 11 and AP2 has a z-index of 20, so RP1 is below AP2. RP1 and AP2 are both above RP2 of course because RP2 has an auto z-index, and therefore is just above normal flow content in the root stacking context (at the 0 z-index level).

I hope this helps clarify how z-index works in modern browsers. As usual, track back if you have questions.

SVN-Log-Index-0.30

SVN-Log-Index-0.30 06/14/2004 10:08 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.21

SVN-Log-Index-0.21 05/28/2004 12:33 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.22

SVN-Log-Index-0.22 05/30/2004 12:22 AM

SVN-Log-Index-0.1

SVN-Log-Index-0.1 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

index

index 06/16/2004 06:16 PM
Tokyo Plastic is freakin WOW! .. Clearly the work of a nutter .. Incredibly cool flash thing .. Sweeter than candy .. Amazing Flash site .. Tokyoplastic.com .. .. .. TokyoPlastic .. voorbeeld .. index

tokyoplastic.com
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Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet

Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet 07/28/2004 01:27 PM
So we're running to actively managed funds now? Not so fast, my friend.

Index Mundi

Index Mundi 07/13/2004 05:09 AM
Index Mundi
http://www.indexmundi.com/

Index Mundi, home of the Internet's most complete country profiles. This excellent site derives it's information from the latest version of the CIA World Factbook. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

String-Index-0.02

String-Index-0.02 05/14/2004 06:13 PM

Giving away the index

Giving away the index 06/05/2005 11:35 PM

My final year project is due in two weeks, and I'm going to be running on silent for most of them. I have, however, upgraded to Tiger and playing with Spotlight has given me plenty to think about.

Giving away the index

The great benefit of having an electronic version of a book you own in dead-tree format to hand is that you can search it. Publishers generally don't hand out free digital copies because, well, they want you to buy the books, not freely distribute electronic copies.

The thing is, you don't need a digital copy of a book to be able to search it; you just need a full-text index of it (if you don't understand what this means, go and read Tim Bray's series O n Search). An index isn't enough to reconstruct the book, but it is enough to answer questions like "on what pages of Eric Meyer on CSS are float layouts discussed?"

Imagine if technical publishers made binary full-text index files of their titles available for download, for free in some kind of open standard format. Readers could query them using Spotlight or similar technologies, and gain the ability to search the titles they own all without needing to rely on centralised, artificially limited services such as Amazon's Search Inside the Book.

O'Reilly, I'm looking at you.

Full-text phishing

On a darker note, one thing about Spotlight that has given me pause is the immense ease with which it can uncover passwords saved amongst my email. Lost password reminders, new account details, invitations to sign up for services - they're all hidden away in my mail archive. Spotlight makes it trivial to dig them back up again, and offers the APIs for applications to do so as well. Combine this with a piece of spyware / some trojan horse and you've got the ultimate vector for phishing attacks.

This problem isn't limited to Macs either; Google and MSN's Desktop Search engines could be used for much the same purpose, and full-text search is bound to end up built in to Windows sooner or later. For the moment, the safest thing to do is either delete those pesky emails or move them to a folder that is excluded from Spotlight's index. Somehow I doubt many people will think to take such precautions.

And with that off my chest, it's time to get back to my dissertation.

Site Index 2.00

Site Index 2.00 02/12/2004 10:04 AM
A simple script that generates multi-page HTML site index for your domains.

Index Translationum

Index Translationum 10/29/2003 09:11 AM
Index Translationum
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.ph p@URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than one 1,300.000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every quarter. In publishing this list, UNESCO provides the general public with an incomparable global tool by means of continous international cooperation.

more company index

more company index 09/19/2004 06:08 AM
Scientific American Sep 19 2004 10:15AM GMT

"http://www.ali.gov.uk/htm/index.htm"

"http://www.ali.gov.uk/htm/index.htm" 12/16/2003 03:14 AM

operation usa index

operation usa index 12/28/2004 06:54 PM
Operation USA

opusa.org
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Index.html

Index.html 04/14/2005 04:23 AM
severe British woman with a penchant for knee-high leather boots .. Sonya Fitzpatrick Animal Communicator The Pet Psychic on Animal .. Anyone can have a web site .. Sonya

sonyafitzpatrick.com
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String-Index-0.01

String-Index-0.01 04/12/2004 04:50 PM

Telecomms Index

Telecomms Index 07/29/2004 07:01 PM
Sam's Telecomms Index.

EDGAR Index

EDGAR Index 05/05/2004 06:56 AM
EDGAR Index
http://www.edgarindex.com/

SEC filing directory and RSS notification service ... EDGAR Index Free Directory offers free listings and notification of SEC Filings in several categories: IPOs, Quarterly and Annual Reports, and Insider Trading Filings. Users can subscribe to free RSS feeds for each category. SEC Filings contain a wealth of information about the financial and organizational well-being of an organization. Their free directory/blog is available by clicking here. This will be added to Competiti ve Intelligence Resources 2004 Internet Miniguide and Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.02

Plucene-SearchEngine-Index-RSS-0.02 08/19/2004 10:13 AM

Wisconsin Name Index Gets New Names

Wisconsin Name Index Gets New Names 01/02/2004 09:29 AM
The Wisconsin Name Index, last mentioned in March 2003, has added over 12,000 leads to Wisconsin political figures, bringing the total name count in the index to over 125,000 people....

Semantic Behavior Index

Semantic Behavior Index 06/20/2004 11:16 AM
Jon Udell speculates on what our OS would do if Google wrote it instead of Microsoft: On the Google PC, you wouldn’t need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant messages. It would just happen. The voracious spider wouldn’t stop there, though. The next piece of low-hanging fruit would be the Web pages you visit. These too would be stored, indexed, and made searchable. More ambitiously, the spider would record all your screen activity along with the underlying event streams. ... Interesting idea! And couldn't we implement enough of this to test its usefulness pretty...

Gizmodo Buzz Index: Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD

Gizmodo Buzz Index: Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD 09/23/2004 09:01 AM

Gizmodo Buzz Index: The most accurate graphs since cavemen first scratched pie charts into the walls of French caves. The upcoming high-definition format war is heating up, with Sony and company backing the Blu-Ray format (Sony confirmed yesterday - to no one's surprise - that the Playstation 3 would in fact use Blu-Ray discs), while NEC and Toshiba (and Microsoft?) is pushing the competeting HD-DVD standard. There's not a clear winner yet - the standards are just dipping a toe in the market at the moment - but for now, it looks like Blu-Ray is winning the GBI by a large margin. HD-DVD really needs a major product backing it now. How about Xbox 2?

Related
HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray, The Saga Continues [Gizmodo]
Blu-Ray Archives [Gizmodo]
HD-DVD Archives [Gizmodo]

Update: Reader Damian Roskill makes a good point that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are planning to use Microsoft's hi-def codec, so Big M is (rightly) hedging its bets at the moments. In a way, that makes the format choice of the Xbox 2 even more interesting.

Google to index libraries

Google to index libraries 12/17/2004 06:37 PM

In yeste rday's link dump, I inexplicitly buried a link to the big news about Google's plan to index the books at The Libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and The New York Public Library. Wow!

In the meantime, Microsoft released a toolbar suite. Uhmmm, wow?

Note to Microsoft: I like your OS, but you're falling waaay yy behind.

BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI)

BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI) 01/28/2004 10:15 AM
BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI)
http://www.buytelco.net/bbi.asp

When during the week is the demand for broadband services highest? Which states have the highest and lowest demand? How does demand breakdown among demographic groups? The BuyTelco Broadband Index (BBI) answers these questions and more with its monthly roundup of connectivity trends for high-speed Internet including DSL, cable, and satellite across the USA. In the month of December 2003 we find that demand is highest at the beginning of the week, with demand peaking on Tuesday. On a state-by-state basis, we find highest demand for broadband in Utah, and lowest demand in Alaska.

CC search index breakdown

CC search index breakdown 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

Folks love a license distribution breakdown, so here's another, this from the current index of 1.2 million pages (larger crawls forthcoming) used by the Creative Commons search engine:

	Allows commercial use	Allows derivative works	Allows both
Audio	32	78	32
Image	19	48	16
Interactive	31	65	27
Text	28	69	23
Video	13	65	12
All	27	70	23

All numbers in the above table are percentages: 32 percent of pages marked as containing audio content use licenses that allow commercial use, 78 percent allow derivatives, and 32 percent allow both. In the case of audio works, almost nobody has chosen to allow commercial use without also allowing derivatives.

It appears that people licensing audio have chosen to offer more liberal terms than average while those licensing still and moving images have chosen less liberal terms than average.

WebTorrent.Com Index Script

WebTorrent.Com Index Script 04/08/2005 06:02 PM
WTcom 0.2.3 alpha Released

ABCNEWS.com : Nightline Index

ABCNEWS.com : Nightline Index 04/30/2004 02:46 PM
the Nightline web site .. Nightline’s .. on-demand webcast .. Nightline .. Nightline .. episode .. ignores

abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline
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HTML-Widgets-Index-0.6

HTML-Widgets-Index-0.6 02/05/2005 09:54 PM

mozdev.org - greasemonkey: index

mozdev.org - greasemonkey: index 03/22/2005 03:18 PM
mozdev.org - greasemonkey: index .. Greasemonkey

greasemonkey.mozdev.org
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The Case Against Index Funds

The Case Against Index Funds 07/20/2004 08:01 AM
Nathan Slaughter busts the myths and tells the truth about investing in index funds.

Google expands Web index

Google expands Web index 02/18/2004 09:18 AM
IHT Feb 18 2004 1:26PM GMT
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