Can Google keep a secret? Google’s Marissa Mayer argues that Google must keep its search secrets out of the hands of spammers. Conspiracy theorists disinclined to read any further, fire away about the NSA and Wi-Fi-gate. The actual topic of this discussion is more basic to Google’s core identity: should it be required to disclose [...]

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When designing a website, there are key user behaviours that should be taken into account. But in order to take them into account, it helps to know them. Below are 10 of the more interesting and less well-known user behaviours that regularly occur in user testing: People have banner blindness People don’t notice banners. It’s [...]

Microsoft has finally dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on its web browser settlement with the EU Competition Commission. Starting in March, users of Windows who have set IE as their default browser will receive a software update that will enable them to choose a different one. Posted by – ARStechnica.com. dtsv.dtse_post_1276_permalink = ‘http://www.costadesigns.com/blog/pc-users-you-now-have-a-choice/’; [...]

Posted by: Google Official Blog – Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn’t use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company called AliceCo and Bob runs BobCo. [...]