The Year 2008 of the Web
2008 was a massacre for many sites in term of traffic, including very important sites, see The Fall of the Giants. Because the rules have changed, Google has penalized paid links, removed from its index RSS feeds and pages made of only repeated phrases from other pages. Many directories and sites of aggregation of content or digg-likes were literally cleared from the landscape.
On the other hand Google expanded services for both webmasters (Insights, Trends, Moderator, Earth in pages, Gears, Android) and Net surfers (universal search with videos and images, Knol, custom search).
Roundtables with webmasters have given the answer to many questions, which was taken in our SEO section.
AdSense publishers have lost refferals and won advertising videos.
The year 2008 was also that of Web applications, with the appearance of the Chrome browser, many frameworks: Silverlight 2.0, JavaFX, and Adobe platform becoming open-source.
All that was found in articles published on Scriptol.com, the site of webmasters... In our specialized sections and in the news:
- Internet replaces newspaper.
- What is new in Wordpress 2.7?
- eFace: using XAML with Java.
- Chrome 1.0 released. First final version.
- Project 10^100.
- An open source CMS from Microsoft.
- Screenshots of Windows 7.
- Native applications in the browser.
- JavaFX 1.0, a new framework for Web applications.
- An experiment of HTML 5 browser.
- Some original websites
- Zoom images with Deep Zoom from Microsoft.
- The end of link exchange?
- How to skip the introduction of a Youtube video. Updated.
- Live Search API now available for all.
- The fall of the giants
- Google answers to webmasters.
- What is a black hole site?
- Analytics will add seven new features.
- The final version of Silverlight 2.0 available to download.
- Key data on web design.
- Internet is good for the brain.
- Insert a book in your pages.
- Mono 2.0 released.
- The FreshRank has its patent.
- Advantages and disadvantages of Chrome.
- The Google's datacenters.
- Google launches a new web service: Moderator.
- A calculator in the search box.
- Google Earth driving simulator.
New algorithms has been developped for the Web and the network, and new langages has been are implemented.
- PHP 6 and PHP 5.
- Algorithm to fake images and videos.
- The new XL algorithm.
- Algorithm playing the go game.
- Adsense in Analytics.
- Google's browser.
- Insights for Search: what is the World searching for?
- 1 trillion URLs parsed (not indexed), by Google.
- Knol is open to public.
- Google launches Lively.
- ICANN opens extensions.
- Firefox 3 released.
- An API to put Earth in your pages.
- Microsoft and Yahoo: to buy or not to buy (not clear yet).
- Google Website Optimizer for all.
- New Alexa ranking algorithm.
- Android for mobiles.
New scripts on the site:
Go to 2009. We should see the frameworks implemented in sophisticated offline Web applications. Other sectors such as mobile Web should be considered.The challenge for webmasters is now to provide both services and content to be indexed, and Scriptol.com will be here to provide useful information ...