Does Ask.com Have a Chance Against Google?
A few days ago while watching tv, I saw a commercial for the search engine Ask.com. The commercial showed many features I had never seen from a search engine. I decided to use Ask the next 3 times when I would typically have used Google.
The first thing I noticed when I went to the Ask homepage is that it looked strikingly similar to Google:
- Clean layout
- Search box in the center of the page
- Links in upper right and bottom of the page
However, it did have more visual appeal than Google’s simple blue hyperlinks.
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eBook on Scholarship Search Secrets
Have you been contemplating about going back to school to get more education? Then you may want to check out the eBook on Scholarship Search Secrets. It is a 35 page electronic book (eBook) about how to use popular Internet technologies like Google web search and RSS to find scholarships.
You can download the eBook for free, but you do need to enter your registration information.
Here is some other useful information the site provides: Continue Reading “eBook on Scholarship Search Secrets”
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Increase newsletter signups with an Avatar
Do you have a website with a newsletter signup functionality and are trying to build your list? Well, according Anita Campbell, using a SitePal avatar, animated character, can help you do that.
Anita conducted a test and “the results of that test wildly exceeded my expectations. The avatar increased newsletter subscriptions by 144%”.
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Free Photoshop Plugins & Filters
Photoshop is a feature rich graphics editor program and comes with hundreds of Filters and Plug-ins that allow users to enhance their graphics with less work.
Design News has compiled and published a list of websites that offer FREE Photoshop Plugins & filters. Here are some of my favorites: Continue Reading “Free Photoshop Plugins & Filters”
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Cool Ways to Show Off Data
There’s so much activity on the web that it’s hard to know what information to focus on. The article Data Visualization: Modern Approaches in Smashing Magazine has done an outstanding job pulling together a list of sites that visualize data in innovative ways. The article showcases an array of screen caps so you can see just how diverse data visualization can be. Many of the sites in the article synthesize the collective activity of people online to help you digest what the community at large is up to. Others provide examples of how to display data in compelling new ways using visuals.
Sick of boring pie charts and bar graphs? Because user behavior is constantly changing the data, the image that’s generated is always new. Here are some examples to get your mind churning about how you can punch up the data on your site. These new approaches encourage users to spend more time exploring and consuming the information. Continue Reading “Cool Ways to Show Off Data”
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