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How To Optimize Your Web Site Meta Tags: Optimize Your Title, Description and Keywords Meta Tags
$4.95
Don't waste your money on this book. You can get more information online with one click than by reading this book. Too basic and no substance. It takes 30 seconds to read. I wasted my money. What a joke!

Internet Research Scout
$59.95
Internet Research Scout is the best way to do online research and save information from the Internet. Capture HTML snippets from web-pages (including images) and organize them so that you can find them easily on your computer's hard drive. You can use Internet Research Scout from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Mozilla browsers directly and save web content with the click of a mouse. You can create bibliographies in different styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian). Create digests and other types of reports. Internet Research Scout can edit, print or send the captured snipped via e-mail or integrate with MS Word. Automatically extract meta-tags: keywords, description, author information, contacts, copyright information and more. Internet Research Scout records the name and the URL of a website, so you can find it later. You can save your work in the form of snippets, bibliographies and reports in PDF, HTML, MHTML and plain text formats. use Internet Research Scout to maximize your efficiency and save hours of your valuable time.

Variations in use of meta tag descriptions by Web pages in different languages [An article from: Information Processing and Management]
$5.95
This digital document is a journal article from Information Processing and Management, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Sets of top-ranking pages in 20 languages returned by the Google search engine were downloaded and analyzed for presence of meta tag descriptions and lengths of descriptions. Results showed significant differences in proportion of pages with descriptions and in lengths of descriptions depending on language; specifically, pages in major Western European languages showed higher proportions with descriptions, while pages in Chinese showed the lowest proportions. Descriptions were mostly in the languages of the pages, though English descriptions were provided on some non-English pages. With few exceptions, coding schemes adopted for diacritics and non-Roman characters were standard.

Groovy in Action
$49.99
I started my career with "dynamic languages" (we called them scripting languages then). I enjoy getting things done quickly with scripting languages, the power it gives you and the freedom to concentrate on the problem domain and not fight with the platform. With all the new languages that are available on the JVM alone, I'm having a lot of fun getting back to my roots. To this point I've mostly stuck to Ruby (JRuby) as I really like the syntax of the Ruby language. I've been aware of Groovy for quite some time... hearing Scott Davis and Andy Glover singing it's praises. But have just not given it enough attention... until recently.

I've been reading the Groovy in Action book from Manning. What a great title to get started with. When I get a tech book, I want to make sure it will pass the test of time... meaning: I don't want to read through it and then have to sell it or throw it away immediately due to it's uselessness. This book has a key component to it that makes it worth the money... the logical flow and organization of the book makes it perfect to work as a reference manual later on. If you are like me, you don't exactly remember EVERYTHING you read... reference abilities are VERY important to me.

With features like "FOR THE GEEKS", the layout stays interesting (as interesting as a technical book can be anyway... :) ) I also appreciate the effort taken not to go too far into Grails. Grails is very important to the Groovy language, but not everything. It's touched on in the back of the book, but just enough to give you an idea of it's potential benefit to your arsenal.