Friday, November 13, 1998

Important: Frontier security hole closed. It concerns all Frontier 5.1 or greater installations operating as web servers.

Wired: The Globe smacks it out of the park. They're former Mac developers. I once had breakfast with them at Bucks!

ScriptMeridian: Regex 2.0b10.

Wired: InfoSeek to pioneer in XML search engines. This is interesting, but they're missing a big opportunity. If there was an XML-based standard for webmasters to tell search engines what pages had changed, the crawlers could skip visiting pages that hadn't changed, resulting in more timely hits for search engine users, and broader coverage of the web. The first search engine to implement this will become the technology leader in search engines.

Check out siteChanges.xml. It's updated every night at midnight, listing, in XML, all the pages that changed on the server in the last 24 hours. It's cumulative, so you can visit us once a week to get current. Could you write a script to produce a similar file for your website? Once one search engine supports this, a lot of webmasters will support it too. After all, we all want better visibility on search engines, right? Let's work together!

Fat Pages Site: suites.siteChanges.