Internet & Search
Google Search Suggestions: Men are More Worried about Manhood than IQ
Analysing query logs is really amusing some times. This is a screenshot from Google’s Search Suggestions for queries which start with the word “average”.
Here are a few extrapolation from these suggestions:
1) Men are more worried about the length of their penis than their IQ.
2) Height is more important for men, weight for women.
3) Salary is [...]
Want your URL Shortener? Buy a Domain and Use Bit.ly, like Techcrunch and New York Times
With the diffusion of Twitter and other social sharing communities there is a lot of buzz over URLs shortening. Every major company wants to have its own URLs shortening domain: Google (goo.gl), TechCrunch (tcrn.ch), New York Times (nyti.ms), FourSquare (4sq.com), Fox News (fxn.ws), Delicious (icio.us), Bing (fa.il), …
Did they all really setup some highly reliable [...]
Top Shared Domains on Twitter, February 2010
Almost every magazine, tech blog, and news site (even CNN Money!) announced this week that Twitter receives more than 50 Million of tweets per day.
Great, but how many of those are junk or spam? Twitter does not care because (good or bad) every tweet translates in growth for them, but I am trying to answer [...]
Why Twitter Clients still lack Classification, Clustering and Ranking?
On Facebook the average user has about 130 friends and I believe that the average user of Twitter follows a similar number of people.
Considering one or two Tweets per day from each, plus 10 or more from accounts like CNN or ABC, it’s reasonable to think that you would have to look at 250 messages [...]
Average Query Length on Major Search Engines, February 2010
With the increase on popularity of Internet access, people use the Web for almost everything. Web search engines are used as recipe books, calculators, encyclopedias, howto’s, DYI references, and so on.
In the last years users became better at formulating their queries and it is kind of funny to think that at the beginning they were [...]
Facebook’s Email could really Take Down Gmail Supremacy
According to some statistics from Google, people spend 4x more times surfing the Internet than driving their car. However, when asked what a browser is, they had no clue. The first Internet users were hackers which spent most of their time on terminals, chatting through IRC, using Pine for their emails and a few newsgroup. [...]
Most Used URLs Shortener on Twitter, January 2010
URLs shorteners are definitively a hot business right now: Twitter made them popular restricting the tweets to only 140 characters, and while developing a URLs shortener is pretty simple, the amount and quality of data that they can collect (e.g., number of time a URL has been clicked on) is amazing.
It is easy to imagine [...]
Free Wifi and Toolbars are Used to Monitor the Pages you Visit
If your browser sports a toolbar (e.g., from Yahoo, Google, MyWebSearch, …), you are using Google’s Chrome browser or the free WiFi that they offer in Airports an planes, somebody is gathering data on the pages you visit, how long you stay on them, and what else you do online.
This is the sometimes shocking truth [...]
Search Results: 65% of Users’ Attention goes on First Three
According to a 2004 eye/click tracking study (Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search) done at Cornell University on Google results page, users spend about 50% of the time on the page reading the snippet of the first and second results, and 14% to read the third one.
Here is the percentage of time spent [...]
PubSubHubbub: a 1987 idea with HTTP/XML and Peer-to-Peer Sprinkled on It
If you read tech blogs like ReadWriteWeb or TechCrunch you probably have heard of PubSubHubbub, a distributed publishing method recently announced by the Google’s folks: PubSubHubbub.
Tech bloggers are going crazy about it and wrote thousands of posts without really knowing what it is and who will benefit from it. It is one of the buzzwords [...]
