Search Engines
Acute search?
UX Pond is a newly launched search engine dedicated to UX-related content.
Is the concept of closed or “acute” search a progressive approach or one that belongs in the past?
Before the world of the search engine, the approach to making content findable was to apply the directory model. This was the basis of search within portals [...]
The key to knowledge discovery
The web is full of knowledge. More so now than ever before. And it’s only going to get bigger.
That’s largely why, unsatisfied with the common search engine as a discovery tool, community driven bookmarking tools have become the preferred discovery tool for web users.
Sites such as Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Stumbleupon and more provide a [...]
Writing for the web training
Content is what drives the web. So, knowing how to write copy that stands out from the competition is a very useful skill to refine.
The 1 day workshop from Webcredible includes training on how to produce copy optimised for search engines as well as insight into how users consume content.
Webcredible is a user experience research [...]
Good Writing vs Good SEO
The battle between creating genuine, thoughtful content and optimising your site for search engines can leave publishers with a conflict that’s tough to resolve. Too often the quality of content is compromised by the voice in your head telling you to add more keywords, more “free”s and more “how to”s.
Do we have to choose?
An article entitled “Writing [...]
Is ‘natural search’ still natural?
Google’s latest amendment to the display of search results places a box of scrolling entries in prominent position of page 1. Google ‘climate change’ for example and you’ll find an example of the tool.
Scroll through the real time results and you’ll find Twitter-esque snippets, a high percentage of which originate from Twitter. This function undoubtedly [...]
