Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

Due to the increasing popularity of Ruby on Rails, Engine Yard is gaining popularity as a host for RoR apps. This growth has gotten the attention of Benchmark Capital, who has invested $3.5 million in the hosting site.

Engine Yard provides 24/7 service for your RoR apps at a cost of over $300 a month. While some find this a bit pricey, Engine Yard basically acts as a full-time system administrator, which is very helpful for smaller operations. Their high ratio of employees to clients and their service reputation is very good.

Scalability is often a complaint about Ruby on Rails, but Engine Yard claims to respond quickly to traffic spikes and add slices as businesses grow.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ initial attempt to get into the search market is not impressing very many people in the tech community. As the early reviews flood in, one common thread in each of the reviews is that, at this point, it’s awful.

Wikia Search had hoped to combine social networking and user voting aspects to add a more human touch to the search process, somewhat like Mahalo, but as Stan Schroeder of Mashable puts it, “[Mahalo] simply blows Wikia Search away. Besides offering much better search results, and actually delivering on the “human” element of search, it has a lot more options, a better integrated social component, hell, it even looks better.”
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In a move that raises questions about the direction Google Search is going in, pages are not only being indexed faster, but are appearing near the top of Google’s search results in very little time also, leading to search results that are more up-to-date.

It seems that Google is giving a higher rating to newer posts with the right keywords, putting them at the top of the heap almost immediately. One of my complaints about Google has always been that when you search for something time-sensitive, you end up getting old, outdated results at the top.
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Remember the early days of the WWW? There were a handful of browsers. I remember starting with Mosaic, but ended up moving on to Netscape Navigator. Most early web users did.

In 1998, AOL purchased Netscape Communications for $4.2 billion, what was at that point a major moment in the web explosion.

Netscape also prompted the creation and free inclusion of Internet Explorer into Windows, which led to an anti-trust suit that Microsoft eventually had to settle.
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I see more and more sites setting up blogs to take advantage of the search benefits. Many of these site owners still act as though there is some sort of mystery behind the blogging benefits, but it’s actually quite simple; you are adding relevant content to your site on a regular basis through a CMS that is very well optimized and syndicated. This means you have more content about your subject, which will help with long-tail search terms, and you are releasing your content through the Web which should hopefully increase the back links to your site. Continue Reading