Recently, User Centric, a consulting firm that focuses on improving users’ experience, conducted an eye tracking study to compare the amount and distribution of attention spent on Bing and Google search results pages. Participants in the study included 24 “experienced users” of both Google and Bing, all between 18 and 54 years old. Each performed
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Google purchased BeatThatQuote.com, a United Kingdom price comparison site, for nearly 38 million pounds. In discussing the sale, John Paleomylites, Beat That Quote managing director was quoted as saying: ?We think this deal is a tremendous opportunity for our company to develop new and innovative options for personal finance in the UK. Our team is
Adobe released Wallaby, a tool that was first previewed last fall at Adobe’s Max 2010 developer conference. Wallaby is the code name for an experimental Flash-to-HTML 5 converter available via Adobe Labs (the site with featured Adobe’s beta technology). Wallaby, is a tool that allows to convert Flash output (FLA files) to HTML5 via a
Seemingly everyone, including web developers, designers and users, are hailing the decline of Internet Explorer 6 ? and that includes Microsoft, the company that released it over 10 years ago. At the website Microsoft launched recently to track the browser’s use, or lack of, the company wrote: “This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer
One way to do that is by downloading a copy of all messages in Gmail to an email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Pegasus Mail, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, and Apple Inc.’s Mail. 1. First Sign in to your Gmail account. 2. Click Settings at the top right of your Gmail page, then open the Forwarding and
The best way to redirect your website to the new address is by using redirection 301. It is the most efficient and Search Engine friendly method for website redirection. It easy to implement and it should preserve search engine rankings for your website. The code 301 we can interpreted as “moved permanently.” Below the code
Late last week, Google announced it had made a major change to its algorithm so as to improve the rankings of high-quality web sites in its search results. This change was made in an effort to also reduce the visibility of low-quality sites. Although Google did not say so directly, the change might appear to
The semantic Web is getting more and more attention, partially because of Google, which is using rich snippets to identify related information and position it consequently on the SERPs. Accurate use of rich snippets improves websites’ visibility in a search engine. This week Google is introducing a recipe search engine which will wildly use rich
Following President Obama’s statement that he wants to encourage American businesses to invest more money in innovation, venture capitalist John Doerr hosted a meeting in California Thursday with technology’s major players, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, Apple’s chief executive Steve Jobs, despite media reports that his health had taken a
According to Hitwise, Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, now has close to 30 percent of the search engine market and is gaining on Google. In January alone, Bing’s share increased by 6 percent. To what can this increase be attributed? Is Bing the better search engine? According to Hitwise Google’s “success rate” ? the percentage of
