If the user interface ain’t broken, don’t fix it… but fixing, Google did, and recently released a new YouTube player that is breaking some of the “learned” interface. Below you can see an example of a new style YouTube player:
Navigational Searches Common, Confusing
Why do people type full URLs into search bars? And why is this practice noticeably less common at Google than at other search engines? It’s hard to say, really, but Compete’s Jeremy Crane has some thoughts and stats on the matter.
Confusing Search Engine Bots?
There are two primary factors to getting a page ranked – discovery and relevancy. By and large, search engines are clever creatures, but the very best webmasters will always send out the right signals to gently guide the search engines, and in return receive great rankings for their content.
Search engines discover content using their bots (or ‘crawlers’), and determine relevancy (and by extension ranking) using advanced algorithms.
Windows Vista Confusing Wireless Routers
Steve Riley explains about how the auto-performance-tuning feature in Windows Vista’s networking stack can cause problems connecting to some wireless networks.
Mac Opens Windows To Confusing New World
Not too long ago, it was considered sacrilege for a journalist to choose a PC over a Macintosh – it was like telling veteran reporters (the guys that served in Nam) that The New York Times was a bunch of liberal alarmist gobbledy-gook, which, of course, it is. And that’s just fine with them, just like their time tested Macs.
Toolup.com Peer Review – Fix Confusing Elements
I have been reading DevPro for a while and saw some of these page reviews, and thought I’d like to get my sites in there for review at some stage, but decided I’d better do some reviews .. tit for tat and all that.