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About Aquaris
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Internet Explorer has been around since Windows 95. and I have been using the Net since then. so I think I can help

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been on some other question/answer site and am considered good enough to be in the top 10's

 
   

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Microsoft Internet Explorer - Web searching


Expert: Aquaris - 10/5/2004

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Hi

Do you know a solution to these 2 problems? Overcoming them would help a lot of people find what they need in web searches.

PROBLEM 1

Mostly links change color to purple when they are visited in search engines.
I used to think that the links were purple because they were stored in the history. However, I have several URL's in my history, but the links are no longer purple, even though the exact URL's are the same. Do you know why this is?

Is there a way, or is there any software that would maintain the links in the color they change to after visiting them for an indefinite period? For example, it would be good if those links that change from blue to purple remained purple indefinitely.

PROBLEM 2

I would like to get a team of people to do a search for something that would take one person too much time. The problem is different members of the team would go to the same websites, and contact the same people, asking the same questions. This would waste time and annoy people.

A solution could be if each member of the team emailed the other members a list of the URL's they have visited, perhaps in a history file. Each member would combine the URL lists to form a "total URL list". It would be good if each member of the team had software to color the links on their webpages a different color if they are in the "total URL list". Then, the blue links would indicate sites nobody in the team have been to, and purple links would indicates sites that have been visited by someone in the team. I am not sure if there is a way to install and combine the history folders of the different members of the team.

Do you know an easy way to do this or any software that could help?

I have written to google.com and asked them if there was a way to search so the search would only bring up URL's with a certain letter. But they said they did not have this feature yet. The project could involve one person doing a search on all the URL's beginning with "A" and another person would do all the URL's beginning with "B". Others would do other letters. This would save overlap or two people in the team searching on the same URL addresses. It would also save similar emails being sent to the same webmasters asking the same thing, if people in the team were writing letters.

Do you have any suggestions on the easiest way to do this?


Also I value your opinion on my below sites and am wondering if you want to swap links

I have many websites linked to http://www.advantagein.com/overview.htm .
There may be more different topics than you are aware of. They contain something for everyone and suppressed information that is rarely seen. I am trying to form a network that can help people like you. What do you think of them?

Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.


Answer
Hmmmmmmm.....

Interesting...


You see the  Link behaviour...is normally embeded in the

web page you are visiting....that is ....defined in the

webpage...itself....the reason we sometime see....visited

links retain their  different color while we visit them

again...and some time  do not retain their different color

when we visit them...seems to be due to the Browser's

internal cache...and History .....If it retains those

web pages which were visited earlier..then the Links visited

should in theory...retain the color change...but if the

browsers cache is cleared...then It may loose ..this color

change ....of the visited link...

But again...Its the Web page itself...which should have

defined the color change...or should have conformed to the

default W3 standard for web page design...

....People with  acceability Option...Use these feature...

But  I am .afrain  I am ....Not well versed with any such

Utilities...which enable that...

Just a few suggestions....Maybe they help or maybe they do

not...But ..anyway...


Tools--->> internet Options...

then click the Advanced Tab....

scroll down to the browsing section...


and choose  ...the Underline Links option...if its not

already selected...Also have a look at various other

setting  there...May be some setting...changes...the

browser's behaviour like you want it to be..


....The other options is  to  get hold of a  programmer..

and ask him to write a pluggin ....for such ....for your

browser...Maybe He could write  any such...


beside....I have heard ...there are these Bookmark

Utilities....which are highly configureable...

you can have a look at various...of them...from

www.download.com  or  www.tucows.com  then

serach for Bookmark utilites....Browse  around..Maybe

you find something....that Helps you..


I am sorry  If its not much....since programming is not

my field...But any way...I hope it helps...




or techniques...which  ...could  

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