Anguel's Techie Blog

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Everybody uses YouTube. It is one of the most popular sites. But is it really good? I am not a real YouTube expert but I think there is a lot of room for improvement: Videos sometimes freeze while loading or simply load too slowly. When I want to play multiple videos and switch to full screen YouTube turns off full-screen for the next video in the queue. Whenever I use YouTube I feel lost on the site. I don't know where to click next. I think that the search engine is not the best and the search results are not always the most relevant. When (or if) I have finally found an interesting video it often turns out that it is a part of a series of videos that go together. I have real problems to figure out how to play the whole series in the correct order or even to find the other videos (some people post a lot of videos). I don't know if this is my problem, a problem of the users that have added the videos or rather a problem of the YouTube site but I hate the site interface....

So why Blogger? Although I classify myself as a rather experienced computer user I must admit that I have had no experience with blogging before. So I looked at some comparisons first (primarily on YouTube) and came to the conclusion that the choice will be between Blogger and WordPress. Looks like WordPress is very powerful but to use all the power one should go with the install version from wordpress.org and one would have to put it on his own server. Because I have to manage and update other websites and do not have much time I did not want that, so I decided to use something that is ready to go and constantly updated so I can just blog and not care about installations, databases, updates and so on. On the other hand the free version from wordpress.com seems to have some limitations... Well and then there is Blogger. By Google. This looks like SEO (search engine optimization) out of the box. And I also like the other Google products I use. As any other product they are not per...