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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by DanBC on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:24PM (#7274103)
Lots of people complain about W3Schools. Some of those people say the Mozilla pages are a bit clunky.

Seems like a nice passive income project - man pages for HTML / CSS aimed at beginners but with advanced information too.

I'm surprised it hasn't already been done. Perhaps it has and I just don't know the URL.

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by nostrademons on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:41PM (#7274193)
http://html5index.org/
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by patmcguire on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:20PM (#7275423)
You can't fight the SEO feedback cycle. W3 schools was linked to by some people, so it shows up on Google, so it gets linked to by more people...
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by kbenson on Friday February 21, 2014 @02:12AM (#7275799)
Some people? By internet standards, w3schools is ancient, and has been linked by many people over the years. Here[1], I present you their main page from close to 14 years ago. The copyright notice says 1999-2000, and I think I first visited it in 1999, but I could be mistaken. That's a long time for links to accrue.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20000815210025/http://www.w3schoo...

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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by dangayle on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:40AM (#7277757)
Also, look at the exact match keyword text links and their site structure. They were SEO'd before there was such a thing
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by glyxbaer on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:12AM (#7276065)
oh god, they used comic sans? No wonder every homepage in the early 2000s overused that font..
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Re:Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor by thousande on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:36AM (#7276630)
MDN search has an api,

http://paulrouget.com/e/mdnapi/

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