Computer Tricks and Secrets

When it comes to web pages available on the Internet, three key dates are crucial to understanding their timeline and relevancy: Publication Date : This is when the article or web page is first uploaded to a public website. Both humans and search engines can access and find the page from this date. Indexed Date : This date marks when search engine spiders first discover the web page. Given Google’s efficiency in crawling fresh content, this date often coincides with the publication date. Cache Date : This is the most recent date when Googlebot re-crawled the web page. Search engines frequently re-crawl pages every few days or weeks, or even multiple times a day for news sites, to check for content updates. How to Find the Publishing Date of Web Pages For news articles, the publishing date is typically included. However, if the date is not specified or seems incorrect, you can use a simple Google hack to determine when a web page was last published: Steps to Find the Publication Date St...

Facebook, like YouTube, now allows to you easily embed videos on web pages outside Facebook. That means if you come across an interesting video on Facebook, you can easily put it on your blog without having to direct your audience to the Facebook website. There are two important points to consider though. One, you should only embed videos that are public. Facebook does provide the embed code for private videos that are shared with you or your network but your audience won’t be able to play these videos on your website. The other issue is that Facebook still uses the Adobe Flash player to embed videos when your website is viewed on a desktop. It automatically switches to the HTML5 format on mobile devices but if someone is viewing your website from a desktop or laptop, they would need the Shockwave Flash plugin enabled to view your embedded videos. Add Facebook Videos to your Website First, let’s find a video on Facebook using Graph Search. Go to the search box and type a search query l...