Ajax has been around for years. People have used it to create amazing products, and people have also regularly slammed it.
One of the reasons ‘The Ajax Buzz’ is discounted is the SEO team. Their point is completely valid that Ajax does not show up in the search engines, so you lose out on a lot of search engine steam for your website. And they are doing their job well, which is to inform people about what would or would not work with Ajax.
It is the job of developers to help come around that problem. It’s not like Ajax is an insignificant development, and is not commercially used. Heck, even google uses it so much. So I can’t understand why hasn’t any search engine come up with crawlers which can handle ajax as well.
Come to think about it, the first engine which starts such a thing, would definitely take up a big chunk of the market.
They say that the fight for search is over, but I think that on the Internet, fights for market share are never over. The last company before google which took the world by storm was Microsoft. 10 years ago, it was taken for granted that Microsoft has everything it needs, but look at the scenario now. Linux and Apple are eating away it’s share.
The same could happen to Google. For history does repeat itself.
From a technical aspect, I’m sure there are a lot of difficulties involved. Maybe I don’t even have a clue about how huge the problem is, but on simple terms, it is about crawlers doing programatically what people do with the mouse.
With the coming of Tibet(I hope it comes soon), Ajax would move on to the next level. And with it we would require some search engine to handle it, because people will need to search inside the XmlHttp requests.
Any ideas about why isn’t anything like this coming out, or if any cool startup is already working on it?
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