Yesterday, a new client found my site through a webmaster forum, and ordered my basic web usability and design analysis. What I found when doing the analysis was inspiration for this post, and a “oh man, they need to fix that” scenario. The site is Nibbo.com, and don’t let their current home page fool you. Give it a test search, and when the results page kicks in decide how much you like it then.

How did Nibbo inspire this post? It had an easy fix that could be applied to many sites, and I thought I would share that fix along with a few others. Continue reading »

 

Way back when, when stagecoaches ruled the highways, and the internet was not owned by Google, Yahoo ran the world of search engines. Alta Vista gave it a good whirl as a competitor, but then the mighty Google came by smacking all of them to an extremely downgraded second place at best. Where was Microsoft in all of this?

July 22nd: I recently created a poll about this, and would love your vote on what search engine you think is better: Which Gives Better Search Results, Google or Bing?

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