1. Web design is 95% typography
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...colour help readability. Famous examples of unornamental websites that treat text as interface are: Google, eBay, Craigslist, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, reddit, Delicious. Being a hard to dispute ne...

2. Google to launch operating system
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Is the launch of Google Chrome Operating System a move to strike at the heart of Microsoft's software empire? In July, Google announced that it is developing an operating system (OS) for

3. New visual search on Bing
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

...ntroduces "visual search" to its Bing search engine in a clear attempt to differentiate it from Google.   Bing's search interface Microsoft recently introduced a n...

4. 2.8a Online content sharing services
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

...ion. Other examples of content sharing services include: embedding customised, interactive Google maps or multimedia players. aggregating RSS feeds from other Web sources. ...

5. 2.8b Using YouTube to store and share FAO videos
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

Policy About YouTube YouTube is a video sharing Web site where users can upload, view and share short videos or multimedia presentations. Unregistered users can view most videos on the sit

6. The Future of Social Networking
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

... rich social profiles identifying those individuals that influence others and those that respond.  Google already tracks who you email the most. Experiments in social media advertising w...

7. Google Latitude
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Latitude is a location-aware service that is based on Google Maps. Contacts can chose to share their location information by accepting invitations from each other. Their location is the

8. Collaborative tools and Web 2.0
(NEWS/NEWS FROM FAO)

...ng SlideShare to store, display or embed presentations Embedding customized, interactive Google Maps or multimedia players Aggregating RSS feeds from other Web source...

9. Google Chrome
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

 Google have come up with a new Web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. Called Chrome, it combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology that Google claims will make th

10. Customized search from Google
(NEWS/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS)

Google has unveiled a tool that allows users to personalize internet searches with their own notes and changes. On 20 Nov 2008 Google launched SearchWiki which allows users to delete search r

11. 2.8 Social Media Policy
(WEBGUIDE/WEB PUBLICATION BASICS)

... This is called a "mashup". For example, the site Earthquakes in the Last Week takes maps from Google Maps and merges it with earthquake data from the US Government's Geological Survey (USG...

12. 9.4 Evaluation of Web sites
(WEBGUIDE/MAINTENANCE)

...ronment that resembles real life, while allowing participants to think out loud. Link popularity Google and other tools on the Web can give an indication of how many other sites are linking t...

13. 6.10 Providing access to search
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...itize sites to include or exclude); or Collaborative editing of the search engine scope; Use Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE). This is a full-text search engine that connects to Google'...

14. 4.4b Why embed metadata in Web pages?
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

... other areas, especially in static pages with stable content. With external search engines such as Google, not including any meta tags is not detrimental, but it will reduce the ...

15. 4.3d How to optimize content for search engines
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...f the page. However, you do not want to artificially stuff keywords here. More is not better. For example Google might expect a keyword density in the entire body text area of maybe 1.5 - 2 percent fo...

16. 4.2 FAO content repositories
(WEBGUIDE/CONTENT COLLECTION)

...the CDR means that they can be quickly picked up by internal FAO search engines and external ones such as Google. For information on the processing of other types of documents and on how to get docume...

17. 3.2 What and (who) is the site for and what is it about?
(WEBGUIDE/PLANNING)

...e (a themed collection of links), what advantage does the proposed site have over a search engine such as Google? Keep a record of your findings, notes and minutes of brainstorming meetings. ...

18. 6.2e HTML metadata tag
(WEBGUIDE/CONSTRUCTION)

...meta tags for spamming (like repeating keywords to give a page a higher ranking) some search engines like Google have stopped using them entirely.   ...