Source: pandia.com

Quintura is a visual search engine technology that makes use of Yahoo’s index. It presents search results in an interface that is truly different. Your search term is at the center of a ’search cloud’ surrounded by related terms that can help you narrow your query. Now this interface is available in i special version for kids.

Quintura for kids has a pretty, playful start page: A winter landscape where the trees have holiday lights on and someone has made a snow man with top hat and a carrot nose We like it!

When you arrive, a cloud of suggested search terms is already hovering over the search box: Christmas, school, sports and more. Just pointing your mouse at one of the terms changes the picture — your chosen term gets a search cloud of its own and search results pop up below. If you like what you see, you click the word and the search is performed. If not, just point your mouse at another word and keep on searching.

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By: Nathan Weinberg | Source: webpronews.com

Philipp posts about Wouter Schut, who decided that if Google was going to do such a poor job responding to users who send them emails about bugs and suggestions, he was going to create a public bug tracking database himself.

While no doubt Google has an internal bug tracking system that mere mortals will never get to see, I think it is safe to assume that it:

• Is decentralized and divided up by project, with zero collaborative abilities, just like almost everything Google does, or
• It is gigantic, filled with so many bugs (from all the many things Google does) that it is becoming a giant pain, or
• Google is infallible. There are no bugs.

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By: Adam McFarland | Source: sitepronews.com

When a business owner decides to bring their business to the web, generally the last thing that they think about is search engine optimization. They assume that whomever they hire to do their web design will put up a site and then submit it to the search engines and the traffic will magically pour in. Unfortunately it takes more than that to drive search engine traffic to your site, and even more unfortunately most developers don’t program with SEO in mind, nor do they educate the client about the process involved in gaining traffic from search engines.

Whether it’s carelessness or a lack of knowledge, or a combination of the two, this often leads to a client that several months down the road doesn’t understand why their site doesn’t get any traffic and isn’t helping their business. A good designer will not only program with SEO in mind, but will also educate the client about the basic principles of SEO, whether they are the one who executes it or not.

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