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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MDG Delivers WS4D/eCommerce 3.6.4 for OS 9 and WS4D/Commerce 4.0r13 for OS X; adds Froogle and other Search Engine Features Cary, IL November 2, 2004 -- MDG Computer Services, Inc, a leading developer of web and eCommerce tools for Macintosh and Windows, announced today that it shipped new versions of Web Server 4D and WS4D/eCommerce, its a single application that includes a full featured web server, shopping carts, storefronts, credit authorization, virtual domains, and database publishing. What's New With Version 3.6.4 & 4.0r13? This release of WS4D adds some important features that allow your sites to be easily seen and published by the major search engines. Froogle Auto Publish Google is by far the leading search engine available today. Over the past two years, Google has been indexing items found and adding them to a section called Froogle. It may be possible that some of your products already appear in Froogle. MDG has added an option feature ($50) that allows all your storefronts to automatically publish products to Froogle every night. This allows your products to show in Froogle above all other items that Froogle found. Google Auto Publish Your virtual domains have the option to automatically be added to Google. Google will be notified every night of the virtual domains hosted on your server. A checkbox enables or disables for each hosted virtual domain. Robots.txt Auto Creation Having a robots.txt file at your main sit en and in your directories tells the search engine crawlers, that it is OK to index your site. WS4D now creates this on the fly. If there is a folder that you do not want crawlers to see, you can still manually create one. Search Engine and Redirects One of the best features of WS4D/eCommerce has been the server cookie feature. This feature allows people to shop at your WS4D/eCommerce store even if cookies are disabled at the browser. Search engines have become smarter lately, and they started indexing pages with Server cookies in the URL. This means, that anyone clicking on a link to your store (or database) from a search engine that happens to have a server cookie, will share the same shopping cart. A new feature added, does not send server cookies to search engines. This allows search engines to index your site and people clicking on a link from the search engine will get their own server cookie. Server Cookies Already Indexed Also, for sites and products that are already indexed with a server cookie, WS4D will automatically redirect these links to get a new cookie and this will prevent users from sharing shopping carts and allow existing links at search engines to still work. Availability If you are currently running WS4D 3.6 or 3.6.1 the upgrade to 3.6.4 is free. If you are currently running WS4D 4.0x, the upgrade to 4.0r13 is free. Both upgrades are available today. For those users running an older version, or wish to upgrade from OS 9 to OS X, you can place your orders at http://www.mdgcs.com MDG has been shipping Web Sever 4D since November, 1995. Web Server 4D combines the power of a relational database along with a full-featured web server in single high performance single application. WS4D/eCommerce adds shopping carts, credit card authorization, order and customer tracking. WS4D/Email-Search allows any mailing list to be searchable from the web. MDG can be contacted at 1343 Mulberry Lane, Cary, IL 60013, USA; Phone: 847-791-0914, Fax 847-841-4735; [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
