Google has reiterated the importance of speed in its search rankings just as it has announced a 30% boost in response times for its Chrome web browser portal.
Google, in fact, suggests that speed is the most important factor of all in determining search engine results making it therefore vital for online businesses to ensure they [...]
Google has launched its remarkable Street View service of British cities to a mixed reaction.
Supporters of the technology marvel at its cleverness and talk about how the service can revolutionise how people research cities to visit and houses to buy. Opponents argue it invades individual privacy and is a potential security hazard. And then there [...]
New research from Brand Republic has found that the British public are prepared to have their browsing monitored to facilitate a more personalised service from the search engine providers.
Apparently Google intends to monitor user habits in order to target ads and this has alarmed privacy advocates who believe such acts are too much of an [...]
Done your Christmas shopping yet? Planning to avoid the high street cram this coming weekend by shopping online? Well you are not the only one.
More and more of us are doing our holiday gift buying online as the convenience and cheap prices are increasingly making the e-street more attractive than the high street.
In fact, according [...]
Browser usage statistics for 2006, provided by Net Applications show that Mozilla has once again decreased the margin between IE and Firefox. Two years ago Microsoft was providing the web interface for 90 per cent of Internet users. Now more and more people are moving over to the world’s second favourite browser with Firefox [...]
Many Internet users and even some web developers are still choosing to ignore the fact that there are more browsers available than just Internet Explorer.
The Opera team has quietly built a name for itself and the new browser Opera 9 is now available to download. Savvy Internet users have given Firefox a go and the [...]
Working in IT is only marginally less stressful than working at CTU, a recent poll suggests. Well colour me surprised - bet if you did a similar poll of carribean beach-bar barmen they’d be moaning about the hazards of falling coconuts, and you’d probably find toy testers losing sleep over the incorrect rendering of Barbie’s [...]
When people watch me browsing they think I’m weird - even when I’m not on hatsofmeat.com - because my name is Chris and I am a selecting-things-on-the-screen addict.
When I’m reading something on the web I compulsively select and deselect text with the mouse. I’ll click and drag to highlight from the bottom of a paragraph, [...]