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Jul

Cuil: Why Scrolling Divs? Why Columns?

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Search, Website Development

So….. some ex-Google engineers have launched their own search engine: Cuil (pronounced “Cool”).
They claim that its index is 3 times the size of Google’s. Great!
They say it focuses on on-page content for relevancy. Great!
I would love to see a good solid competitor for Google. I would love to see a search engine that focuses more [...]

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Tags: Cuil, design, Search, usability

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12

Mar

Newspapers Still Don’t Get It

Posted by Sonjay  Published in Life Online, Website Development

Daily newspapers have been fighting decreasing readership and falling subscriptions for at least a couple of decades now. More and more, newspapers are putting their content online.
For that I salute them.
But the web is now about 15 years old, and I wonder why so many newspapers still don’t manage to get some of the basic [...]

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Tags: newspapers, usability

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