Murdoch Would Bolster WSJ’s Digital Presence
The letter has it all - bold print, bullet points, and italics. It’s 1,200 words long. And it’s signed by billionaire Rupert…
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The letter has it all - bold print, bullet points, and italics. It’s 1,200 words long. And it’s signed by billionaire Rupert…
There are a lot of niche search engines out there; considering how effective Google and Yahoo are, one could easily say that there are too many. This has led me to become a bit suspicious when new ones pop up, but Pipl - a search engine for finding people - is gaining traction.
Rising video search engine Blinkx will be funneling its media index into the half-humanized ChaCha search results. If you've forgotten about ChaCha (and most of us have, really), this is the engine on which searchers can enlist the aid of a live on-call human for assistance.
What do you do when your Web site falls in Google's page rankings for reasons due to a shift in their algorithm known as the "Google Shuffle"?
It takes a village to raise a child, but what does it take to run an online community? Well, there’s the money, the site, and the keyboard, but in less tangible terms, a human touch is also recommended (if not required).
Overall, using text is more preferrable, than using graphics (images, pictures, Flash and so on) on a website, because it is easier to understand and remember - and also accessible to the people and the search engines. But there are some cases, when using graphics is the right thing to do. When to use graphics As mentioned in the earlier article, graphics should only be…