Recently people have started noticing something odd. They have to click on a flash file, java applet, or any other interactive component before using it. What causes this? Thanks to a patent troll by Eolas Technologies, Microsoft has chosen to make a change to their Internet Exporer interface for all content that requires an applet, object, or embed tag.
A Ridiculous Patent
I’m not going to go into the specifics, but Eolas filed the patent in 1998 and basically claims to have invented the process of using interactive content on the internet. The W3C has even gotten involved, claiming that documents published over a decade ago qualify as prior art against this ridiculous patent.
Eolas wants 521 million dollars from Microsoft to license the priviledge of allowing IE 6 to work the way it has worked since 2001. Oh, and they don’t care about licensing to the browsers with smaller market share (Mozilla, Opera, et al).
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Our index page targetted keywords and text layout were changed; thus we had to see how we did on the search engines. Here are some shocking results.
Yahoo!:
#3 for keyword “Singapore Web Designer” (+1)
#3 for keyword “Singapore Web Design Company” (+1)
#12 for keyword “Singapore Web Design” (+2)
MSN:
#6 for keyword “Singapore Web Designer” (-3)
#6 for keyword “Singapore Web Design Company” (-3)
#11 for keyword “Singapore Web Design” (-5)
Verdict:
Surprisingly, things are going well at Yahoo!, but they are updating their data centres, thus we cant afford to smile yet.
Terrible at MSN. Our text changes moved us 3 places down, this got to be a result of our keywords.
Still the same at Google, we are not strong yet and have to produce more unique content. Our press releases are at the top 10 of Google but our website have dissapeared from the top 20.
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Dearest friends, partners and precious clients, all of us at Sg Web Designer wishes you a “Happy & Prosperous Chinese New Year”.
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