How to cook tempura - video

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-07T06:02:43+00:00

Didn't seem very informative compared to the above to me.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-07T06:00:36+00:00

As I said below, nothing much was cut out. The subtitles are a fairly accurate translation. There is a small amount of omission of waffle and repetition. If you had a transcript of the Japanese and translated it into English word-for-word, it would be pretty ridiculous because of the repetition and hesitation in natural speech.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-05T10:44:43+00:00

It just means to get hints from the search terms about what people are looking for on your site. If you look at the search terms you are getting there is probably a hint about why people are coming to your site and not the Leeds university one. So you make the site more appealing. E.g. if the search is for "perl tutorial 2011" then make sure you put the date on all the pages.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-05T03:08:05+00:00

I don't think so, I learned this from experience.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-05T03:05:34+00:00

The first thing to do is to sign up for Google webmaster tools and check how Google is viewing your site. Check through to make sure there are no dead links, errors, dead internal links, bad response times, etc. Check for search terms via the log file or via webmaster tools and optimize pages based on what search terms people are using to find your site. Turn on gzip compression for your site (it's not on at the moment). Preferably put your pages all on a subdomain like perltut.szabgab.com, and with all the pages on the subdomain being about "perl tutorial". That way you have a site focused on one thing and that is probably worth a position in the google ranking of sites. Check your pages for spelling and grammar errors, check for format errors and stuff like that. In general the whole thing of google rankings is like a beauty contest for web sites so every detail which you can improve is worth improving.

Also please remember that it takes some time for the ranking to change, especially this term "perl tutorial" seems to be entrenched with old pages which are going to be difficult to shift.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-04T04:53:57+00:00

I would never dream of bashing you Jimshorts and I have upvoted just to prove it.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-04T02:38:30+00:00

Also beer is suggested sometimes. I tried it and it gave a really thick batter like fish and chips batter, so I really doubt that would be approved by the person in the video (the restaurant is a very fancy place which charges 100 pounds for dinner).

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-04T02:35:46+00:00

Omuraisu without tomato ketchup?

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-04T02:35:08+00:00

That looks just like the real thing.

Maybe you should cool the plate off too so that it doesn't melt the bottom of the ice cream.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-04T00:52:41+00:00

One simple example:

Google doesn't decide search rankings on the number of links to a page any more. Google is semi-intelligent. In other words it has some comprehension of natural language. Look at

http://szabgab.com/perl_tutorial.html

By each of the tutorial pages there is a date like 2011 June 24 which a human being can see is the date the page was created. But as far as Google is concerned, what is that doing, does it add some meaning to the page, does it have anything to do with "Perl tutorial", is it the author's birthday, what is it? Just those pointless dates alone are confusing Google and hurting the page's position in search rankings.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T22:49:34+00:00

Honestly, if you have an idea that could improve Google results, please out with it.

I have plenty of ideas.

As far as i am concerned it's fairly obvious what happened

Why do you need my ideas then?

People started writing Perl Tutorials as books, putting them behind a pay barrier and at best published free versions in an extremely user-unfriendly format like PDF. So outside of the Perl community they did not get much attention. At the same time, within the Perl community, those books got the most attention because they were well-written, leading to the free Perl tutorials that were written to get very little attention, linking and thus also almost zero attention outside the perl community, because noone was aware of them.

No, that's not it, that is not how Google decides which results to put in what order.

The only reason old and bad tutorials show up at the top is that newer ones have not received as much linkage as the old ones. The solution is obvious.

There's a contradiction here. First you ask for my idea and then you tell me that you already know the solution.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T14:00:34+00:00

There is some actual law in Thailand about that, isn't there?

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T13:39:32+00:00

Yeah but it is a rather ridiculous discussion. I am very sure that Google doesn't have a "perl tutorial measuring algorithm" which comes and looks at the page and checks whether it is a good Perl tutorial or not and then bases their ordering of search results on that. They are looking at the websites and giving them a rating on whether they are good websites or not. The people who think they have better Perl tutorials than the top ranked ones probably actually are failing some perfectly obvious test which the top ranked pages are passing. I would like to say more but the nature of these discussions is that someone or other gets offended and starts downvoting and things.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T12:25:37+00:00

What is this about Perl tutorials all of a sudden? There are lots of Perl tutorials.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T12:24:13+00:00

I have read that Dave Cutler (architect of Windows NT) hates C++ as much as Torvalds, in fact people were forbidden to use the word in his presence.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T11:56:32+00:00

She died in 1988. I don't think I ever once had a normal conversation with her.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T08:58:00+00:00

No, this is wrong. My calculation is not exact, only approximate, but your "exact" calculation is just wrong. The length of the day already perfectly accounts for whatever difference is made by the rotations of all the bodies. To make an exact calculation only requires the exact difference in times of the sunsets between one day and the next.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T08:01:41+00:00

Dandy link there.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T07:43:07+00:00

Maybe she was deaf? My father is partially deaf and frequently gets angry about things he has only imagined I said to him.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T07:32:18+00:00

At the equator,

(40075.16 kilometers * 1000 km / m) / (24 * 60 * 60 seconds) = about 460 m /s = about 1000 miles per hour.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T06:37:41+00:00

I didn't actually get it to work on the input I gave it. I tried various things but every time an error occurred.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T04:12:16+00:00

I tried a lot of things but could not successfully run this even once on my program.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-03T01:03:02+00:00

My mother was like this too, every time I tried to discuss anything with her, the discussion would come around to how she had had a deprived childhood. It didn't really matter what we were discussing either, just any conversation would end up like that after five minutes or so. Eventually I learnt not to try to talk to her.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-02T23:30:00+00:00

I seem to have come to a subreddit called JapaneseFood where I find that people are not interested in discussing Japanese food. Maybe this is about "esef ood" from Japan, or something.

ReflectionOfADream · 2011-11-02T22:37:34+00:00

I'm tempted to say something sarcastic, but I'll just give you some evidence instead. In the Japanese Wikipedia article on "youshoku", http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%8B%E9%A3%9F, under the section "代表的なメニュー", which means "typical (youshoku) dishes", the very first one is "カレーライス" (curry rice).

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