One problem with the conception of a wired world is that many places on this Earth don’t have electricity to support a computer. With the concept of a wireless world one would not need a wire to a device but would still need electricity. It now appears even that hurdle is almost gone. Here’s an interesting article on AMD’s efforts to bring the net to developing countries, including a $100 laptop that has a handcrank as an option to power it up.

Human ingenuity! Read on.

A big Texas Howdy to Meridian Business Centers as The Info Group begins their SEO campaign. Meridian Business Centers is a lessor of executive office suites in Dallas, Irving and Grapevine.

During the course of every initial discussion about search engine optimization we have with new clients or potential clients is the subject of expectations. Usually the question is simple, when can I expect to see my site show up? The answer is a bit more complicated.

Several factors go into how a search engine will react to a site that has been properly optimized. One of the major factors, especially as it relates to Google, is how old the site is. New sites can take 6 to 9 months to show up for their main keywords in Google, why? The accepted reason in the SEO field is what’s called the Google “Sandbox”. Without getting into a discussion about the Sandbox Theory, simply put, this is a filter put in place to help prevent spamming. So what’s a site owner to do if his site won’t be in Google for 6-9 months? Well first, don’t panic! There is another little engine called Yahoo and a couple of others called MSN & Ask Jeeves that you can get in. In fact we’ve seen sites get listed and ranked in MSN in as little as 72 hours. If you could obtain significant traffic, front page rankings and sales without a significant listing in Google would you take it? Yes, I thought so.

So when can you expect your site to show up? To begin obtaining good rankings in most of the engines a new site that has been properly optimized should start “showing up” within 2-4 weeks. For established sites it should be much quicker but again all of this is dependent on numerous factors and certainly is site specific.

Podcasting is a relatively new term but sure seems to be creeping into the mainstream fast and as businesses begin to catch on to the idea podcasting could easily change the way we market products and services. If you’re new to this whole RSS/Blog/Podcast world, it would be worth your while to learn about it because the new operating system from Microsoft promises to have RSS features built in and newer versions of the popular browsers are already making it easy to subscribe to your favorite blog or podcast.

P.S. You can add our blog via the RSS link in the highlight box below … and yes, we’ll be podcasting soon.

DFW Consulting Group Inc are mechanical, electrical, and plumbing consultants providing quality engineering, on time, for a reasonable price, with superior customer service, and a vision for the overall project requirements.

We welcome them and look forward to a successful launch of their new website in early 2006!