Google search results influenced by browser

by jiyanwei • July 25, 2007

This is a little strange – I was doing some research on television content migrating onto the Web and ended up running the same query – for ‘arrested development’ on Mozilla and Internet Explorer, and found that the MSNBC site hosting the video content ranked higher in a Google search run on IE than on […]


10 things I think about widgets

by jiyanwei • July 25, 2007

I’ve been toying with different ways of analogizing and thinking about widgets and have come up with the following: Widgets are legoizing(made-up word) the World Wide Web. Widgets turn the Web from a plain old toy robot into Voltron. Widgets heterogenize (I think this is a made-up word) the Web. Widgets compartmentalize the Web. Widgets are […]