I was pretty surprised to read that (apparently) Google did this without even a heads up to alternativeTo. Seems like it would have at least been polite, if nothing else ...
What it looks like when Google links to your website
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Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, and that is what I've seen from many Europeans. However, I think that must be a convention from before the universal adoption of the metric system by the EU, as the 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures (held in 2003) declared that the symbol for decimals should be "the point on the line or the comma on the line". i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual E…
> i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use. Regardless? Those (and mainly comma) is exactly what Europeans use. It's not like there is some other symbol besides those too in use for that purpose.
Yes, there is another convention.
(spaces)+(commas or periods) != (periods)+(commas)
What you are talking about is a European convention, not a metric convention. There is a difference.
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#53I'd like to hear how they were able to handle the dramatic increase in traffic over such a short period of time.
With out getting to specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must of prepared for Google Reader deadline
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#54Markus, what license is the content of AlternativeTo under? Have you considered one of the Creative Commons licenses like Stack Overflow?
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#55I'd like to hear how they were able to handle the dramatic increase in traffic over such a short period of time.
With out getting to specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must of prepared for Google Reader deadline
> Without getting too specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must have prepared for Google Reader's deadline
Assuming ESL; legitimately trying to be helpful :)
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system. English: Use commas for separating thousands, use periods for decimals. Metric: Use spaces for separating thousands, use periods OR commas for decimals. In this instance, the English approach is obviously the superior one, as spaces are more confusing to use as a delimiter than commas, and there should only be one way to…
I´m european and the natural way for me is period for thousands and commas for decimals, although I´m aware of the imperial way, with commas for thousands and periods for decimals. Another important difference is that in Europe we understand a billion as a million of millions (10^12), not a thousand of millions (10^9). For us, a 10^9 is a miliard. Luckily I´m also aware of the use of billions for 10^12 and whenever I…
US, UK and Russia use billion in this strange way
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#57Congrats! I love alternativeTo. It's my way to train parents and friends to find the best free alternatives to whatever ad-bloated software SEO'd their way to the top of Google last time they decided they needed to convert a movie or download music. This simple piece of advice (and a bookmark in their favorite browser) has greatly reduced the amount of PC rebuilding I've had to do for them over the years!
Thank you, that's so great to hear.
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#58hey alternativeTo team, congratulations! at this achievement, i hope you will put some effort (also) in improving the UX of the site so that users like me get keep visiting whenever we want an alternative. Some observations (at http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/ page): - Ads are covering a large part of the area - The list of alternatives are not prominently visible (need to scroll down) - UI is a bit c…
Thank you!
We're always trying to improve the site but the design for the desktop version of the site hasn't been worked very much on lately. We are aware that there is always room for improvement.
Ads: we need them. Sorry.
List of alternatives not prominently visible: The problem here is that we don't know exactly why a visitor is coming to an application page. It could be to find alternatives to the application or it could be that they are interested in the selected application because it was listed as n alternative to something they want to replace. I absolutely understand what you're talking about here and we have some plans already to make this better, but after we discussed your comment we came up with a even better solution that we hope we can do something about this fall.
UI is cluttered: We have plan to hide more stuff. There is a plan.
Thanks a lot for the great feedback! We appreciate it.
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, we'll be sure to think about how we can make this better. The button/link is actually pretty big for all apps that don't have any additional links (like to app stores). See AOL Reader as an example. Is that reasonable or would you prefer something else? http://alternativeto.net/software/aol-reader/
Keep it simple. I want a big, shiny button that links me to the content I want. When I click on one of the software, I don't read the blue box. I scroll down and then click on an alternative. Then "what the?! I'm on the same kind of page again!" I scroll down, click on alternative... and repeat this again and again. Oh! Now this page has a big green "download" button! Awesome! click it Oh. It's an ad. This was my rea…
Thank you for great feedback, very much appreciated! We will definitely try to make things very obvious when it comes to leaving our site for the final destination that should be an applications website or an app store.
I also answered some of these thoughts in my reply to imdhmd.
Re: What it looks like when Google links to your website
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, we'll be sure to think about how we can make this better. The button/link is actually pretty big for all apps that don't have any additional links (like to app stores). See AOL Reader as an example. Is that reasonable or would you prefer something else? http://alternativeto.net/software/aol-reader/
I really like your site, it's the place I go when I look for an alternative to a specific app/webapp. I'm going to assume that most of your users are like me and come through your site by a google search. Some feedback: - The main issue with your site is imho that it's trying to do two things at once. Next to giving alternatives to software, it also tries to be a categorized directory of applications. I would love fo…
Great feedback and ideas, thanks! I think I have answered much of it in my reply to imdhmd above.
I see the point you make about Questions. We'll consider this!