Tag: google
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Instant Previews on Google – will reduce traffic but improve bounce-rates
This post quickly explains what Google Instant Preview is and how web designers should make the most of this new feature. Instant Preview shows a small screen grab of a website when clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the search result title (see below).
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Trust or privacy?
This is a follow-up post to the Top 10 Google Streetview Pros and Cons post. A lot of the arguments on the internet still focus on privacy issues. However, how do web users consider their own web security?
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Useful web considerations: Bing vs Google, YouTube and accessibility, Top 100 internet sites
This is a very brief post about a few web related things that are worthy of note recently. Bing is coming! Batten down the hatches, Google I have to say I’ve been very impressed with Bing’s advertising campaign which effectively brands itself as a ‘decision engine’ rather than a search engine, but more noteworthy for…
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How I lost all my images on Google Image search: the perils of default settings
Although I like to consider myself quite well versed in the art of SEO and visibility on the web, I did have a ‘slap-forehead-moment’ a few weeks back. I’d recently reinstalled Drupal (which this site runs on) to the latest version. However, what I failed to remember was that I’d created my own robots.txt and .htaccess…
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There is a different Google out there – trust me
Whilst most UK Googlers don’t yet see much of a difference, in the US Google has made a few minor alterations to it’s interface. Most of the time when you go to http://www.google.com whilst in the UK, you will be automatically redirected to http://www.google.co.uk – however you can get to the .com version using browser…
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Googlemail down (again) – The curse of GMail
OK, so this is a hurried post relating to the current Googlemail outage (something to do with cows and wind?), however consider the following points: