Techniques for Gaining Consumer Trust
When speaking of website optimization practices, it is often associated with SEO and the goal of achieving high search rankings. While this certainly is important to a site’s overall visibility, gaining and retaining user trust should also be a primary focus of any company looking to bolster its virtual presence.
Google Continues to Push Toolbar Usage
Google’s Toolbar is a commonly utilized browser add-on for both Internet Explorer and Firefox users. With its search box, ad blocking, page rank features, and ability to track user behavior — its no wonder the company continues to aggressively market the tool in its search results
ComScore To Introduce New Metrics In 2007
In an effort to further improve the accuracy of measuring the rankings of the busiest websites comScore has announced they are planning on unveiling a new set of metrics for 2007. They believe that the number of page views does not reflect how much a site is used or valued by users.
Amazon Has Record Holiday Sales
Amazon.com had a record-breaking holiday season. Their 12th season surpassed all previous sales records according to the company. The busiest day of the holiday season was December 11. On that day customer orders were over 4 million.
Firefox Making Sparks In The UK
Firefox the open source browser from Mozilla is gaining ground on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the UK according to the latest findings from Nielsen//NetRatings. They have increased their market share by 768 percent since September 2004. Firefox is the browser of choice for 12 percent of the UK.
RSS Usage Survey Results
Back in September, Microsoft conducted a survey, asking people how they use their RSS readers.
Forecast 2007: Destination Google?
2006 marked a year of acquisitions for Google, with JotSpot and YouTube chief among the list of properties absorbed by the undisputed champion of search. So what does 2007 hold in store for the company?
Why the U.S. Will Remain Dominant in Tech
I was just reading the Global Voices Online blog (excellent blog, rarely is about tech, but brings lots of news and opinions from around the world) and saw this post about an Iranian blogger who is tired of having her blog “filtered” by its government.
Cruising Through Google Notebooks
The useful little application called Google Notebook allows people to take notes from web pages they visit and have those notes published online; these Notebooks can be set to private, but many are left public and make for a fascinating trip through the minds of Google users.
GoboLinux – A Breath of Fresh Air?
My very first reaction to GoboLinux was negative. The underlying idea of taming the Unix/Linux file system hierarchy with symbolic links isn’t new: heck, SCO did that way back with their 3.2v4.0 release, and for exactly the same reasons (see the Software Storage Objects- SSO section at this link).