Kevin Purcell
Well-known member
Oh, I have a fast network connection at home and decent machines too. I just dislike Flash sites (a lot!). They appeal to graphic deigners who want control of the precise look (and so they can do silly "interactive" things). But they mostly hide infomation away from Google and general make looking for a particular piece of info more of a challenge (flash always loads more slowly then puts a nice steady load on the CPU ... I filter it out in my browser and only a few sites use it).
And to prove my point ... a google site specific search returns a handful of hits: one at the root of the site ("Needs Flash Player") and 4 PDFs. Not even a site map to work around the Flash site.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:meoptasportsoptics.com&btnG=Search
Finally they chose a dumb, dumb domain name.
They do already own Meopta.com (and should focus their presence there, IMHO).
www.meoptasportsoptics.com
Most of the time, in English the term is "sport optics". It doesn't actually make a huge amount of sense does it with sport in the singular being the "bigger" noun but it's the one used by pretty much all of the bin makers. But Meopta decided to use "sports optics" (the plural) so if one types the obvious URL one doesn't find the server. They also failed to buy the other obvious typo URL to point to their site.
So if you want to see the products and don't want to use Flash download the PDF catalog (which I'm fine with!).
http://www.meoptasportsoptics.com/Meopta2009NatureCatalog.pdf
Rant over. But it doesn't help Meopta's US (net) presence especially if you are trying to find out info about their bins. They all seem like newbie mistakes too.
And to prove my point ... a google site specific search returns a handful of hits: one at the root of the site ("Needs Flash Player") and 4 PDFs. Not even a site map to work around the Flash site.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:meoptasportsoptics.com&btnG=Search
Finally they chose a dumb, dumb domain name.
They do already own Meopta.com (and should focus their presence there, IMHO).
www.meoptasportsoptics.com
Most of the time, in English the term is "sport optics". It doesn't actually make a huge amount of sense does it with sport in the singular being the "bigger" noun but it's the one used by pretty much all of the bin makers. But Meopta decided to use "sports optics" (the plural) so if one types the obvious URL one doesn't find the server. They also failed to buy the other obvious typo URL to point to their site.
So if you want to see the products and don't want to use Flash download the PDF catalog (which I'm fine with!).
http://www.meoptasportsoptics.com/Meopta2009NatureCatalog.pdf
Rant over. But it doesn't help Meopta's US (net) presence especially if you are trying to find out info about their bins. They all seem like newbie mistakes too.
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