Posts written by Jonathan Gerome

US copyright law is very strict and the past 20 years have seen a good number of copyright lawsuits, several dozen in the 1990s alone. A recent copyright lawsuit has particularly caught our attention, however: GateHouse Media vs. The New York Times.

What is copyright?

The sole right reserved for an author or his/her representative to reproduce, publish, or sell his/her literary, artistic, or scientific work during a specified number of years. You can often tell that a work is protected by copyright law thanks to the frequently used © symbol following the year of the first publication and the name of the holder of the copyright. The symbol  invokes rights against third parties and is recommended to discourage third parties from illegally using a work. (more…)

Have you had enough of classic, simple search engines? Do classic lists of search results bore you?

In case you hadn’t realized, there are alternatives. New, so called 3D search engines are making their debut on the web.

In his excellent article, our colleague Aurélien told you about the 3D search engine Redzee. Today I will introduce you to Redzee’s current competitors: Searchcube, Tafiti, Tkaap/Galaxy and Spacetime.
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Is it true that dynamic URLs pose a problem for search engines? Should one, thus, choose static URLs over dynamic ones, or at least rewrite the latter in order to make them visible in search engines? These are issues that webmasters often consider when creating a website.

So, what exactly is the difference between a static and a dynamic URL?

This is an example of a static URL: http://www.mywebsite.com/category/product.html
In contrast, a dynamic URL could look something like this: http://www.mywebsite.com/category/product.php?lg=fr&id_product=2&detail=1
As you see, the static URL looks much “cleaner” because (more…)