User Interface

Google Adapting Android To Virtual Reality To Compete With Facebook

Facebook has been doing Virtual Reality for a little while now, ever since they bought up the Occulus Rift.  Now Google has decided to get join the fray, according to a report seen in the Wall Street Journal. When Facebook bought Occulus Rift, they said that Occulus and VR was going to be the new communication …

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Google Is Testing Green Star Reviews In The Search Results

It’s been a while since I heard about this little tidbit of news, but about six months ago, Google had begun testing color variations for the reviews stars you would seen in search results.  When you view the search results normally, you would see orange colored stars next to sites that used review rich snippets, but sometimes …

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Google Testing A Red Slow Label In The Search Results For Slower Sites

Back in 2010, decided to mix things up a little bit with their search algorithm by putting in an addition ranking factor that included page speed.  Since the release of this new addition, there has been a lot of reports and tools released by Google to help you improve your page speed for users as well …

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Google Mobile Search Descriptions Now Say If You’re Blocking Google

It was announced on Google+ by Google’s Zineb Ait Bahajji that Google’s mobile search results snippets are going to show a message to searchers if Google is not able to show the snippet because the webmaster is blocking their crawlers. This feature was first added to desktop search in August of 2012, and if a webmaster …

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Bing Found Testing Google’s Search Design Interface

It has been spotted by Ruben Gomez that Bing has been testing something new.  Bing seems to be testing a similar user interface to Google’s default search interface.  Before you cry foul and that Bing is the only one trying to copy off of Google’s successful UI, it looks like they’re simply following suit.  Yahoo was seen doing the …

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