Comments on: Cleartype on A Clearly Biased Web

By: Microsoft Cleartype - Metamend’s Search Engine Optimization Blog

Microsoft Cleartype - Metamend’s Search Engine Optimization Blog — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:57:26 +0000

[...] Here’s the oddity – I only came across it because I was randomly surfing through bookmarks, and happened to visit SEO Black Hat. We don’t use any Black Hat methods in our optimization strategies, but we do keep up on what’s going on. Ignorance is not bliss. I flipped through the last couple of weeks worth of postings, and there it was. [...]

By: QuadsZilla

QuadsZilla — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 20:15:35 +0000

The first day I used it, my eyes were completely bloodshot. It just took some getting used to. But now, I don’t know how I worked without it.

By: Wow, Cleartype at Max’ Webmaster / SEO Blog

Wow, Cleartype at Max’ Webmaster / SEO Blog — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:05:16 +0000

[...] Über SEO Black Hat bin ich auf eine Sache gestoßen, die mir sehr zusagt. [...]

By: scottj

scottj — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:01:58 +0000

Cleartype, by the way, is just sub-pixel anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing is a technique that’s been around for a long time, and OS X has been doing this for quite some time as well. So, in effect, Apple and Microsoft are using the tech, but still it’s not something that everybody is blabbing about. Microsoft’s implementation is far from perfect, and Apple has their share of problems, too. But personally, I can’t stand to look at a display without it turned on.

By: graywolf

graywolf — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:23:42 +0000

nice tip

astroturfing … sweet …

By: dabomb

dabomb — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:42:00 +0000

wow
things look, diffrent and a bitnicer but now even ugly fonts look good and i want to put them up on my site, lol ..and thats why i gota disable it

By: anty

anty — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:49:45 +0000

Thanks for the link. It really makes a difference, but now, with cleartype turned on it looks different. Maybe I have to get used to the new appeareance, but I have the feeling that I can read the text better without Cleartype.

Microsoft has forgotten to develop their online performance. They have money and much unused potential, as you already have hinted.

By: richardevanslee

richardevanslee — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:49:19 +0000

Before I started reading about he arcane art of SEO I probably spent most of my time on Windows related websites. There sure seemed to be plenty of them.

Cleartype is one of the first things I enable after turning off all the fancy effects.

Now that you bring this up I guess I’ll have to look around and see if the useful sites for Windows users are still about and just buried in Google.