After two weeks exploring Botswana, my family and I returned to South Africa on a hot and dusty late morning via the Bray border crossing, one of the least utilized in the country. Getting to Bray required a jarring 70 kilometer drive along a dirt...
In an article entitled, "How Lotus changed the business world," Hiawatha Bray of The Boston Globe observed last week, "the company provided day-care services to workers with children, and became one of the first major US firms to offer benefits to...
Sun's Tim Bray has strong ties to the Waterloo area and the Univ of Waterloo. Of course, Bray is also one of the original developers/editors of XML. With so much attention on Google's new video service and the Google Pack today, little attention...
Tim Bray writes. How the wheel turns. Back in the 1990s, portals gave away free home pages and with them came a huge amount of search engine spam. Today, portals like Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL give away free blog space -- and lo and behold, we...
Tim Bray touches on Robert wanting the Semantic Web here. Search. In short, Robert wants better query refinement. Well, we've had in the past and maybe will get again in the future. Below, I'll walk you through how exactly what Robert wants came...
On Search: Sorting Result Lists: Consider this a classic post, from Tim Bray on why it doesn't matter how many pages you think the search engine is sorting through, it's not really happening like that.
Danny's post about Tim Bray's cherry tomato test served as a reminder to me that we've never linked to an interesting interview with Tim that was published in the February issue of ACM Queue and recently made available to non-subscribers.
Tim Bray tests whether Google, Yahoo and MSN image search services can find images that make use of keywords only within the the ALT and TITLE attributes of an image tag. Google is the only one that can.
A Conversation with Tim Bray. To see the images, simply do a search for a location on Google Maps. You can enter a U.S.or Canadian street address, or click the link above the search form to perform a local search or request driving directions.
On Search: Sorting Result Lists: Consider this a classic post, from Tim Bray on why it doesn't matter how many pages you think the search engine is sorting through, it's not really happening like that.
PixMisGoogled from Tim Bray provides an example of how Google Images "ignores" the alternatve text that's often associated with image files. Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies Set For Stockholm, Chicago + Search Engine Watch...
PixMisGoogled from Tim Bray provides an example of how Google Images "ignores" the alternatve text that's often associated with image files. Search Engine Strategies Set For Stockholm, Chicago + Search Engine Watch Articles + Best Of The Search...
Tim Bray provides an example of how Google Images "ignores" the alternatve text that's often associated with image files. PixMisGoogled Sourc: Ongoing
A Conversation about Web Communication with XML Pioneer, Tim Bray.java.sun.com Jul 14 2004 0:27AM GMT Perhaps the way to a solution is to ask what's the problem? To me, the problem for the entire SEM [search engine marketing” industry is that...
A Conversation about Web Communication with XML Pioneer, Tim Bray.java.sun.com Jul 14 2004 0:27AM GMT By default, words typed into the Internet Explorer address bar trigger an MSN search, just as if the words were entered into an MSN search box.
Sun hires XML creator Bray. The new program, ContextTarget, is currently the only available sponsored links product built solely for content targeting, rather than being driven by keyword matching. Contextual ads appear on web pages based on the...
Sun hires XML creator Bray. Google's approach to local search involves using yellow page and business directory information from third party providers, and integrating it with information about individual businesses from Google's main web page index.
Sun hires XML creator Bray. An amusing tool searches Google and shows you what website owners think about the name or topic you enter. Google is well-known for trying to understand the web's "opinion" about web pages, using this information in part...
Search engine pioneer Tim Bray is one of those people, and he has written an absolutely fabulous series of essays that should be essential reading for anyone wanting a thorough understanding of the technology.
Search engine pioneer Tim Bray is one of those people, and he has written an absolutely fabulous series of essays that should be essential reading for anyone wanting a thorough understanding of the technology.
