News stories from October 2008
59 News Stories
Stories 41 - 50
- Spectacles vendors 'have short-sighted accessibility strategies'
- 09 October 2008
- Retailers of spectacles and other vision products are surprisingly lax when it comes to website accessibility, a new study has suggested.Website analysis carried out by Sitemorse for Retail Bulletin p...
- Category: Web Design,
- New version of Opera released
- 09 October 2008
- Opera 9.6 has been released this week with a wealth of new updates.The browser now offers faster page-loading times, a low-bandwidth email mode and better synchronisation of notes, browser history, bo...
- Category: Web Design,
- Outbound linking 'good for credibility'
- 08 October 2008
- Engaging in outbound linking can be beneficial for web users and raise the credibility of the site in question, Google has said.Good linking practices can enable readers to obtain further information ...
- Category: Web Design,
- Facebook gets Live Search capabilities
- 08 October 2008
- Social networking site Facebook has added Live Search website and internet search for its US users.Members can now search the Facebook website and the internet directly from Facebook pages without lea...
- Category: Search Engines,
- E-commerce comes to YouTube
- 08 October 2008
- Google's video-sharing site YouTube has launched a new scheme to allow users to buy media products related to the clips that they watch.'Click to buy' links will be added to video watch pages belongin...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Google looks at importance of link architecture
- 07 October 2008
- A good internal link architecture can make a significant difference to website usability and search engine visibility, according to Google.Posting on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, Maile ...
- Category: Web Design,
- Internet ad sector 'bucking economic slowdown'
- 07 October 2008
- The UK internet advertising industry appears to be seeing growth contrary to that in other sectors as the credit crunch continues to bite, a new report has indicated.Spending on online advertising rea...
- Category: Internet Marketing,
- New design for semantic engine Hakia
- 07 October 2008
- A new design has been rolled out for semantic search engine Hakia.The engine differentiates itself from the likes of Google and Yahoo! by paying close attention to the meaning behind users' queries.It...
- Category: Search Engines,
- Ad agreement postponed by Google, Yahoo!
- 06 October 2008
- An advertising agreement that will see Google ads appear next to Yahoo! search listings has been delayed, it has emerged.The deal was originally believed to begin early this month but will instead sta...
- Category: Search Engines,
- US presidential hopefuls turn to social media
- 06 October 2008
- Social media is being harnessed to a significant extent by both of the candidates for the upcoming US presidential elections.Democratic representative Barack Obama and Republican John McCain each have...
- Category: Web 2.0,
