Wolfram Alpha – Re-Inventing the Command Line
The hype has passed, and it’s clear that Wolfram Alpha isn’t the new Google killer as initially anticipated. But what is this new computational knowledge engine, and how shall we use it? It seems to me that we have been given some sort of a command line tool for a comprehensive information database. The search [...]
“Gulltaggen” – The long neck and spreading ideas online
Gulltaggen claims “Norway’s premier event for digital marketing” (presentations by Seth Godin and Chris Anderson to mention a few) and it was held on the 28th and 29th of April. There’s also a steady stream of #gulltaggen tweets. We’ll give a quick recap on two talks: building successful websites through understanding what users want to [...]
Topic Pages – Content re-use and news site usability (part 1)
Topics pages is a concept of combining site content with background information on a subject, seen on larger news sites like TimesOnline.co.uk and NYTimes.com, but equally important for other content driven sites like blogs or search portals like Kosmix. Focus could be on the people, the organizations involved, events in time, geographical regions or any [...]
More About The User Experience Evolution
I would like to round up my last two posts on Google’s user experience innovations and experiements with search suggestions with a few comments on other quite recent search engine result page (SERP) innovation. Pagelinks Sitelinks are short-cuts to specific pages within a site, and they have been around for a while. In Google they [...]
Google’s New Search Suggestions May Kill Your Website
It has been reported that Google is experimenting with ads, links and answers presented in the Google Suggests list, directly as you type. Not everyone will take part in these experiments, so let me show you what it may look like. Normally, when you start typing into the search box at google.com (international site), you [...]
