Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative is getting a lot of exposure since its launch in early October. Let’s see what it is, how it works, and how you can publish your own AMP HTML pages.

In this age of speed, a page that takes more than a few seconds to load is losing its appeal, and this is especially important on mobile phones. The AMP project serves to mitigate this problem. The articles published in this format will be highlighted by Google in its search results from the beginning of next year.

Would you like to know more about it? I invite you to read the full version of this article I have published on SitePoint’s website: Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages.

Semantic Web Technologies (MOOC)

This course presents the fundamentals of Semantic Web technologies, i.e. how to represent knowledge and how to access and benefit from semantic data on the Web. It is lectured in English by Dr. Harald Sack, a senior researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Potsdam, and is available on the openHPI platform.

Of content and links

The fallow

At the 4^th International Conference about Electronic Document (CIDE, Toulouse, 2001), we have presented, Thomas Polacsek and I, the concept of hypartextual fallow (pdf, in French), a new way to create links between documents.

Writing for both visitors and search engines

When you write on the web, two audiences with slightly different needs have to be targeted: your site visitors and search engines.

What may look like a mere evidence at first sight, as search engines are supposed to put forward the pages which content is primarily targeted to their visitors, above all since the awakening of the Panda, then the Pinguin (and soon the Zebra too?), meets a real need.

Who will be the next Google animal star?

After having named its two last filters Panda and Pinguin, what will be the next web actors charming (or despised) animal?

Both share a big sympathy element: the Panda for its slowness and its black-circled eyes that make an adorable cuddy toy, and the Pinguin for… Happy Feet (how a waddling animal could be antipathique?). And both have low-key colors: black and white is the new rainbow.

Who is still competing in the animal kingdom for the next version of the filter?

DuckDuckGo, put a duck in your search engine

The search engine DuckDuckGo has been around for a few years already, but it has reached not long ago the million queries per day.

Let's see what makes this Duck an interesting alternative to Google or Bing.

Kurrently, social search engine

If the big search engines try to put their hand in the social search cookie jar, it is still quite difficult to keep an eye on what is said and what is done on social networks.

Meet Volunia, a new search engine

Launched yesterday (on February 7) in its test phase, Volunia, the new search engine which is a true hybrid of social network and search engine, brings some fresh air and innovative concepts in the world of on-line search.

Seet & Meek, or a Power User experience feedback in a connected mode.

Poetic SEO

Global thought of a local action, website promotion is an everlasting working process, each time thought again, never the same but always similar, with no fixed recipe but with adapted advices, a pinch of this, two drops of that, let it stew until it gets the consistence of a gravy, with no duration set beforehand.