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July 19

Under Android, can you force a text message to be sent as MMS instead of SMS ?

Either 7.1.1 or 8.0.0. I would like the option to send text as multi-media, and thus come out of my data bucket rather than my text bucket. It seemed to happen accidentally for a while under 8.0.0, but now they are back to being sent as SMS. Obviously I can add something which requires MMS, like a pic, but I just want to send text. SinisterLefty (talk) 02:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How about adding a one-pixel-picture, like some tracking methods do. Most receipiants would probably not recognize it. Only danger: that someone mistakes this as an attempt to track. Steue (talk) 10:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You can try looking for an SMS/MMS app that has this as an option. Sorry can't recommend any because the generic app fulfills my needs so far. 93.136.39.191 (talk) 22:56, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On my 8.0.0 Android phone, turning mobile data off seems to force texts to be SMS, with mobile data on they are MMS. This would solve my problem, except that turning mobile data on and off obviously affects other things, too. SinisterLefty (talk) 03:03, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

youtube subscriptions

I use gmail and the notifications(by email) for the youtube videos which I subscribed do not shown in my gmail inbox from yesterday. What may be the reason? How can I enable them shown in my gmail inbox when the videos are uploaded? I use samsung galaxy tab 3v also at times. Thank you.2402:4000:2381:5E6:E4C0:2BFD:56E9:2B33 (talk) 08:03, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/channels and click the bell on the right so that it goes solid, then you should be notified. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:24, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why do I get search results from Websites in Greek writing?

I entered a search term in English (in my favourite search engine), but the URL which was offered lead to a website written in Greek. This happened several times and is a waste of my time. Why is this? I mean: when I wanted a website written in Greek, I would already write my search term in Greek. Steue (talk) 09:39, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Steue: You best ask at that searching site. :) My guess: the pages found have the terms you used in their <meta name="keywords" content="..."/> or <meta name="description" content="..."/> elements inside the HTML's <head> .... </head> elements. --CiaPan (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Steue: There's another feature of some searching machines: they index pages also with terms which are used at other pages to link to them. For example, one can prepare a page article.html at some site with this HTML code inside: <a href="http://..../well-known-politician-homepage.html">saviour of the nation</a>. It would make a link that looks like saviour of the nation and leads to the well-known politician home page. When the searching machine scans that article, the 'saviour of the nation' term will be associated with the politician's homepage. Of course a single incident wouldn't weigh much, but if you do it multiple times at multiple sites, an indexing algorithm may increase the value of this association and at some point the 'saviour of the nation' query will return the politician's web page among the search results. (This is one of (most primitive) ways to 'position' a page in searching machines. You may find some links on this and related topics at Search engine optimization.) So, it is well possible the terms you used do not even exist in the Greek pages you find now, but they might be there some time ago, or are just used as links to those pages – and now the pages are found as reasonable answers for your query. --CiaPan (talk) 11:02, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. As for your first answer: That was my guess too. Problem: As most websites do, on their contact page they insist on the user naming his email address, but I have none.

I tried changing the search language, but this search engine (MetaGer.de) has a bug which hits when I restrict the search to one language. Steue (talk) 11:13, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]