Chris Dyson: If you are launching a new restaurant/bar then I would personally look at tapping into an existing online community such as Yelp Elite. For the record, my favorite failure is Topeka, Kansas changing it's name to Google, Kansas in an...
Yahoo announced its brand new look today – one that includes a Google-like navigation bar, and search results that appear higher on the page and seem to load faster. As the above image shows, Yahoo has ditched the tabs that were introduced in the...
For iOS users, the addition of the omnibox search function to the mobile browser lets users search for keywords in the longform URL bar instead of the traditional Google search box. Google has announced improved search and sharing features for its...
Appear on a page with Google PageRank that is gray bar or zero. You know it’s going to be a bad (day, week, month …), when Google sends you one of these: At best, your business won’t receive any organic search traffic from Google for weeks.
Just click the little camera in the Google image search bar and you can query an image link or a local file and it tells you all the places where your image has been found. Bing documentation gives the example of foo near:10 bar explaining it as...
This fall, Google began experimenting with moving the menu bar from the left frame to the top of the search results. The Menu Bar Migrates North This change was significant - not only because of the prominence Google is now giving results from...
Next, follow the steps outlined in Google Experiments (now part of your Google Analytics account under the Content menu). Randomization: Google Experiments was used to run the test and make sure that the traffic driven to these pages was randomly...
Little icons will appear on your address bar displaying all the pertinent details. Similar to Firefox’s Live Bookmarks, it displays headlines from your feeds in your bookmarks bar. Rank Checker is built right in to the tool bar.
Since the black Google+ bar debuted last year, there have been plenty of complaints about it. A new trick to eliminate the navigation bar from Google's home page has been discovered by Tecno-Net. Though Tecno-Net takes this to mean Google is...
Specific vertical search options – images, maps, videos, news, etc.appear in a horizontal menu between the search bar and organic search results, rather than on a left sidebar. A new Google Search UI has been spotted in the wild and features a...
As a trendy alternative, consider using a floating social share bar like Digg Digg, Get Social, or Slick Social. For social feeds like Facebook, Google+, or StumbleUpon, aggregators like Paper.li, and even your blog dashboard, thumbnail images play...
Google will revert to an updated version of the black navigation bar that began appearing just ahead of the launch of Google+. When the Google bar was redesigned in November, Google said the goal was to reduce clutter.
If you finally just started getting used to the Google+ Bar – that black bar of Google links you see while traversing Google properties – it's going away soon. In an effort to reclaim more screen real estate, Google is trading in the black...
One other notable change that should be popular among users is a locked navigation bar. Facebook has been testing this out all week, with different users reporting seeing the bar locked at the top of the screen while scrolling at different times.
In the past Yahoo linked to such vertical options above the search bar on the search results pages. On the left, you can sort by sources and time – though the sources filtering is pathetic, offering only 10 sources and as the above example for a...
Here’s what the results have looked like since the introduction of the Google+ bar. Google is testing yet another new look for its search results pages, this time adding more white space beneath the search box where the word “Search” appears in red...
When you ignore somebody, which can be done by clicking “Ignore” next to their name via a notification from the black Google+ bar, from the Notifications stream, or by highlighting their name from your Circles page, you will no longer see their...
To make sure you can see the proper tab, select it from the dropdown menu at the right of your tab bar. The new targeting feature for the Display Network, Google Interest Category Targeting, had been in beta since 2009.
If you have multiple calendars with different colors, the calendar color will remain for the title bar, while the rest of the block will remain the color you selected for the event. While the ability to color code your calendars has always been a...
A slew of new features are indeed in the offing, including Bing Map App Rating, Photosynth Panoramas, Map Overlays, Action Bar, Reverse Address Lookup, Right-Click menu, Full screen maps, Breadcrumb, and many more.
