Google vs Yahoo in Goole Books Ngram Viewer
Posted: Sun 12/19/2010 by ramiroIn a recent post by Perl guru and Google Books Engineering Manager Jon Orwant, the Google Books Ngram Viewer was announced. a tool for visualizing data in the Google Books corpus.
The Ngram Viewer searches more than 500 billion words from 5.2 million books in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish and lets you compare phrases from the datasets over time.
Google Listing Brands in SERPs
Posted: Tue 05/04/2010 by ramiroJust noticed that Google now suggests branded searches when searching for terms like laptop, as seen in the screenshot below the paid listing.
How to Decipher a Country Code Top-Level Domain
Posted: Wed 02/03/2010 by ramiroTo quickly find out which country a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) belongs to, go to google.ccTLD and see what it says. Works in many cases still including China.
Getting Viral with Dots
Posted: Sat 03/07/2009 by ramiroor how to tweet as a pantomime. TheMime shows how to get viral on Twitter with always posting nothing but three dots. TheMime certainly deserves his popularity on Twitter, as I haven't seen any other user with such a stunning consistency in high quality tweets.
The chart below created with TwitterCounter demonstrates that it clearly helps to be mentioned in tweets from Google and many others.
Linking the Logo to the Home Page with JavaScript
Posted: Thu 01/08/2009 by ramiroThe logo of a Web site is not only important for branding but also as a navigational element, that many users expect to link to the home page. According to usability guru Jakob Nielsen the first of Ten Good Deeds in Web Design you can do is link your logo to the home page except you are on the home page.
Mr. Nielsen conducted many usability studies and has written groundbreaking articles and books on Web usability. Good reason for me to trust him when it comes to this topic, especially when it sounds completely plausible.
