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This should come to you as no surprise... Google has added a new Google Webmaster Tools report for showing webmasters mobile usability issues that they pick up...

There are some great answers in the Quora thread How do you prevent scope creep in agile projects when usability testing? From Todd Zaki Warfel’s answer:

Usability testing doesn’t have to be a formal 3 month engagement. There are plenty of resources out there for doing rapid testing, which can easily be worked into a typical 3-6 week sprint cycle. We do it all the time. Take a week out of the sprint to plan, test, compile recommendations and get to work implementing them. Or as Jeff...

When I was in law school, I was a teaching assistant for an environmental law professor. One of the tasks he had me working upon was a review and analysis of electronic databases that could be used to assess natural resource damages when some...

Recently I wrote about Google’s Enriched Results Patent, where Google looked at query terms searched for, and for some of them the search engine returned special “enriched” search results that showed off things such as financial information when the...

Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this.

Bing announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that into the search box, and Bing will tell you:



More interesting is that you can combine emoji with words. Don’t want to type out “donut?” Use that character along with others to find the best local...

Remember we reported that during all the Penguin and Panda madness, Google said they will be pushing out a DMCA Algorithm update...

Google announced they made a change to their Webmaster Guidelines specifically telling webmasters, what they've been saying for years, but more strongly the past few months. Do not block us from crawling your CSS or JavaScript!
Google's Pierre Far wrote, "Disallowing crawling of Javascript or CSS files in your siteâs robots.txt directly harms how well our algorithms render and index your content and can result in suboptimal rankings."

Google was granted a patent last week that looks like it might have been among one of the earliest patents filed by the company. It involves showing television programs (News Programs to be more exact), and showing web pages that might be relevant...

I recently revisited a web site that I worked on almost a decade ago, and one of my favorite pages on the site no longer exists, but its spirit and inspiration remains. The site was Baltimore.org, at the time for the Baltimore Area Convention and...