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[sandor]

Fast Search & Transfer™ (FAST), a leading developer of search and real-time filter technologies, today announced that Macromedia Flash™ content and applications can now be searched by users of its highly-acclaimed search technology showcase site AlltheWeb.com™ (www.alltheweb.com), and by FAST’s worldwide portal partners who utilize FAST Web Search™ index to provide highly relevant search results to over 100 million users per month.

http://www.fast.no/press/press_display.asp?pr_rel=152

[sandor]

i wish there was a company / agency in jamaica that provided surveys and stats like this:

http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/1457991

Study: 20% of U.S. Feels Web Is 'Essential'
In a big vote of confidence for the troubled Internet media sector, 20 percent of Americans feel that the Internet is the "most essential" medium in their lives, according to new data by radio audience researcher Arbitron (Quote, Company Info) and media metrics firm Edison Media Research.

[Chris]

I think that STATIN would be the best organisation for a survey like this. Of course with only 2% of the 2.6M pop. having "direct access" (according to Paulwell), then the survey results would probably be trivially small :(

[melbarr]

Is the population still 2.6Mil? Does STATIN have a website?

Although I could understand if the population isn't moving cause there are so many J'cans in the US... and elsewhere in the world...

[Chris]

Is the population still 2.6Mil? Does STATIN have a website?

Their website address is http://www.statinja.com/

[sandor]

statin is "supposed" to do that ... but check out their site ... if you find anything other than population, gnp, gdp and other financial numbers, please show me the link

maybe a private company like the Stone Poll will do such surveys and announce the findings one of these days. actually, thats the sort of info. that should be readily available every year when they have that computer society conference

[sandor]

the jlp's relaunched their web site - this article talks about people logging on just to ring the bell in the mornings .. hmmm ::)
article: http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20020918/news/news3.html

[CKnight]

showa

[Chris]

maybe a private company like the Stone Poll will do such surveys and announce the findings one of these days. actually, thats the sort of info. that should be readily available every year when they have that computer society conference


or maybe a computer science/info. systems dept. at one of the Universities :-[

[Vermanucci]

:-X Am i the only on that sees supm wrong here?

http://www.thejlp.com
http://www.pnpjamaica.com
http://www.uppjamaica.com/first.html
http://ndmjamaica.net


:o Comments please ???

[Chris]

:-X Am i the only on that sees supm wrong here?

http://www.thejlp.com
http://www.pnpjamaica.com
http://www.uppjamaica.com/first.html
http://ndmjamaica.net

:o Comments please ???


Oh.. do you mean that domains with .com = commercial, for-profit organisation wheras the domains for non-commercial, non-profit organisations tend to have a .org suffix ??? ? Maybe nothing is wrong here and you're simply disillusioned ;D

[Vermanucci]

.Com, .ORG, .GOV - think

Plus - does anyone see the difference invested in design and layout?


- Government talking about technology - the Internet - etc - has anyone seen any online campaigning? ???

[Chris]

Verm, I think I'm missing your point ??? Then again I may not have your discriminating eye when it comes to web sites ;) Other than the domain suffixes, I'm drawing blank.

[CKnight]

I wonder if the webmasters for pnp and jlp get duty free consession? ;D

[sandor]

for those interested in search engine traffic to their web sites, some big news broke yesterday. yahoo not only kept google as the source of its secondary results (back up results if no matches are in the yahoo listings), but google is now the main source of yahoo's results when you do a search.

seems to negate the need to pay $300 to get listed in yahoo and highlights the need to get your site ranking well at google.

article:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/02/10-yahoo.html

[sandor]

FAST Search Engine Now Indexes MS Word Documents
FAST is now including documents in the popular Microsoft Word format within its web search results. Each Word document is labeled (MS Word) next to the title on a search results page. Users can also restrict search to only Word documents by using the using the pull-down menu in the 'results restriction' section of AlltheWeb's advanced searching page, located at
http://www.urlwire.com/news/121802.html