When does tech become accepted normality? How new does something have to be to be considered ‘tech’? It’s a philosophical point, but also one that illustrates this ongoing concept that technology should be invisible, allowing it’s users to get on with whatever they were wanting to do. It is somewhat ironic, then, that the act
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No Comments » Proprietors of search, Yahoo, have produced a visual web search browser plug-in. ‘Axis’ is a product whose installation allows visual previews of websites upon searching the web, rather like Oolone. A small search bar at the bottom of your browser allows entry of your search term, which is followed by a series of screenshots appearing
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Recently Facebook filed their S-1, starting the wheels in motion on their journey to become a public company. There are inherent dangers in making the leap from a private to a public enterprise. When Google went public in 2004, one of their main concerns was that their competition would find out just how successful they
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“Visual appearance is one of the most effective variables for quickly differentiating one application from another” – Bob Baxley (Yahoo! Search) Google dipped their toe in the visual search water in 2011 by providing small previews of sites in their search results. If you know where (and have the time) to click on each result
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