Reply to: Never ending support after contract finished!!

[MrMarkyMark]

Nope, just like it's a fact that the world is indeed flat, there is only ever one page of search results. Whole search engine optimisation industry built because of that fact.

Well of course, that why I mentioned search terms, i.e. amending or enhancing the original brings different search results.

[Hobosapien]

Sounds like your descriptive search terms are poor

Nope, just like it's a fact that the world is indeed flat, there is only ever one page of search results. Whole search engine optimisation industry built because of that fact.

[Hobosapien]

Not to mention the curiously named hotbot.

AskJeeves naughty sister with the hot bot.

Not to be confused with 'goatse'. DO NOT GOOGLE IT IF YOU DON'T KNOW, NSFW.

Though to bring this back on topic, that may be a good image to send to any pests expecting free consultancy. That or a rickroll.

[MrMarkyMark]

Or it can't be found as it's not on the first page of results so therefore doesn't exist.

Sounds like your descriptive search terms are poor

[Hobosapien]

Always amuses me when someone says they do not know something, which then takes 10 seconds to find

Or it can't be found as it's not on the first page of results so therefore doesn't exist.

[MrMarkyMark]

Not refusing, just making efficient use of time available (I am supposed to be doing some work for the client ).

So rather than trawl through the google results, I appreciate people doing the pre-filtering as WTFH has done further up.

One day someone will index the internet properly so there is a defacto set of links in best, 2nd best,.., order on any given subject, and not ordered by the motivations of the search engine (to sell ads or drive traffic to their preferred choices). Not sure how the order would be decided, maybe public vote where one person has one vote on such matters.

Which is fine if someone does it for you, or you are so good you know all the answers.

Always amuses me when someone says they do not know something, which then takes 10 seconds to find

[Hobosapien]

Gotta always love IT people that refuse to use Google

Not refusing, just making efficient use of time available (I am supposed to be doing some work for the client ).

So rather than trawl through the google results, I appreciate people doing the pre-filtering as WTFH has done further up.

One day someone will index the internet properly so there is a defacto set of links in best, 2nd best,.., order on any given subject, and not ordered by the motivations of the search engine (to sell ads or drive traffic to their preferred choices). Not sure how the order would be decided, maybe public vote where one person has one vote on such matters.

[Eirikur]

Then there is Bing....

I said good old times

[SueEllen]

who remembers the good old times of webcrawler, alta vista, Lycos etc and even Yahoo?

Yahoo is still around.

Then there is Bing....

[Scruff]

who remembers the good old times of webcrawler, alta vista, Lycos etc and even Yahoo?

Astalavista.box.sk was my favourite...

[Eirikur]

who remembers the good old times of webcrawler, alta vista, Lycos etc and even Yahoo?

[MrMarkyMark]

Well he is a member of the 'search and you shall follow' Google cult. Some prefer to walk their own path even if it leads nowhere useful.

Gotta always love IT people that refuse to use Google

[suityou01]

That's logical; who's had yours, your posts have made sense.

I have been out of sorts recently. I shall follow MFs example and do the Couch to Posting bollox challenge.

[tomtomagain]

The issue is - they keep emailing me every week asking me to support or fix different things - but I think they are expecting me to do this for free... as in their mind it "should have worked".

Try this little experiment to help answer your question:

Go to your local garage. Ask them to fix your car for free. Go to your local builder, ask him to fix something he did for you last year for free.

Ask your accountant to do stuff for you .... for free.

Do you have a cleaner? If so, ask them to do some extra cleaning for free.

Ask any of your permie mates whether they work for their old employers for free.

In short, nobody works for free. So why should you? No commercial organisation supplies it's products for free. So why should yours?

More importantly. You should not feel guilty about saying "No" to them. You really need to get over your squeamishness about asking them for money.

[Mordac]

I've decided to take up training. Going to set myself the Couch to 5K challenge.

In my case, I'm going for the Couch to Kitchen challenge.

Don't stretch yourself too far, that kitchen is almost 12 paces away...