Yahoo! searchers suggest fix to buggy new feature
Yahoo! engineers had to start fixing a bug in a new live search feature, just a day after announcing the addition.
Yahoo! Search's Kevin Lee introduced the new Search Suggest function, which offers suggestions on search terms as a user types.
How much traffic does my competitor get?
Even if you had a spy in the heart of your competitor's e-commerce team, you might struggle to answer this question.
It's far from impossible that your competitors are neither appropriately recording their web traffic nor confident in which metrics to analyse.
Nielsen/NetRatings drops page views metric
Web traffic measurement agency Nielsen/NetRatings will reportedly scrap the "page views" metric in response to the growing challenge posed by dynamic websites.
Ajax websites and web-based videos mean content can be loaded with no web page reloading, so the firm will begin instead reporting the length of time users spend at audited sites.
CNN.com to revamp news site
CNN is planning to relaunch its main news site in July with a major redesign and a number of Web 2.0 features, extending the site's choice of video and user-generated content.
Google shifts in to offline web gear
Google is attempting to bridge the divide between online and offline working by releasing new software that syncronises the two.
At its Developer Day in Sydney today, the company announced Google Gears, an open-source technology platform that allows programmers to build websites that continue to function even without connectivity.
RobotReplay, TapeFailure join visual metrics new-wave
Web 2.0 developers have launched the latest in a growing line of visual usability and metrics tools.
Nitobi has rolled out RobotReplay and TapeFailure has also released its product; both allow website owners to play back video recordings of visitors' browsing sessions.
Interview with Jakob Nielsen
In this interview, usability guru Jakob Nielsen takes aim at RSS, Flash and the design failings of the consumer electronics industry.
He calls Google's non-search products a "hotch-potch of weird stuff". He digs into sex and segmentation. And he also reveals his day rate...
New ad measuring guidelines for Ajax
The association representing online advertisers in the US has moved to address the problem that leaves hits on modern, Ajax-based pages unable to be tracked.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released a new set of guidelines for measuring rich web applications.
comScore metrics re-jigged to acknowledge AJAX
Web stats auditor comScore has introduced a new 'visits' metric to augment its 'page views' tracking after conceding its previous system unfairly represented Yahoo!
Yahoo! protested in December after comScore data placed it behind MySpace for pages viewed. Yahoo!'s increasing use of AJAX means users create fewer page views because tasks can be completed without reloading pages.
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
