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Martin Burns

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User since: April 26, 1999

Last login: March 30, 2010

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Altavista have launched a hard-core search facility called raging.com. No annoying ads. No categorisation. No 'build your own page'. No ISP offers. No shopping links. No message boards. Just search. The way it used to be.

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

Submitted by hackworth on May 5, 2000 - 12:02.

Looks to me like they are trying to copy Google. It's a decent attempt. It'd be nice if all search engines began adopting this approach. Less is better! hack

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Submitted by aardvark on May 5, 2000 - 19:55.

When I went to the page, I fully expected more stuff to appear on screen. I actually sat there for a moment waiting for the other shoe to drop. It occurred to me how much I've come to expect a search engine to be just clutter, to the point that I was confused by the lack of crap on the screen. If anything, I got a good laugh out of how my expectations are much different than they were 5 years ago.

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Submitted by olineham on May 8, 2000 - 06:39.

Expect it to change. There's not even a banner on the site - how can they possibly be making money? <cynical>Perhaps they will sell top rankings.&lt/cynical> It'll get cluttered. They always do. Just like inflation. Prices will rise. Search engines will add annoying "features."

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