{"id":80,"date":"2008-12-07T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-12-07T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T03:10:03","slug":"the-growing-importance-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/the-growing-importance-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Importance of the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Google, the web and the world itself will never be the same again. As long as search engines exists, and as long as they&#8217;re still important the web will remain important. If search engines grow in importance, the web itself will also grow in importance, and from growing reliance on search engines I would venture to say that the importance of the web is also growing.<\/p>\n<p>The ways to advertise to consumers have grown. It grew from word of mouth to paper, then to radio, then to TV and movies, and finally the internet. I&#8217;m sure as the media evolves so will advertising methods.<\/p>\n<p>Now and days, before we go anywhere, watch anything, or buy anything, chances are, we&#8217;ll Google it. Heck, before we hire a person, we might even try to Google up that person&#8217;s name to see what the web has to say about him\/her. This is a sign that search engines are growing in importance which means that the content on the web is also growing in importance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the content of the web is what shows up in the search engine. The better your content, the better the effect it&#8217;ll have on the end-users who land on your site. There is a growing need for professional websites because consumers demand perfection in everything for a company; presentation, service, quality, cost, and etc. It&#8217;ll be unacceptable for a major multi-billion dollar company to have a cheap poorly constructed website. The web in a way has just as important as the storefronts and in some cases IS the storefront.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of search engines is constantly growing. The importance of what we put on the web is growing on a daily basis, our standards for it is growing as well.  As long as this trend continues, the web will continue to grow in importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Google, the web and the world itself will never be the same again. As long as search engines exists, and as long as they&#8217;re still important the web will remain important. If search engines grow in importance, the web itself will also grow in importance, and from growing reliance on search engines I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/the-growing-importance-of-the-web\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Growing Importance of the Web&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jacksonleung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}