In this video Matt Cutts reveals that Google does not use keyword for ranking “even the least little bit”. It looks like so much spamming had been going on that keywords were effectively rendered useless for ranking sites and pages. There are two other use cases that spring to mind. Accessibility and composition. In the UK, the Royal National Institute for the Blind recommends the use of metadata, including keywords, to aid navigation. “Page information [...]

This is an interesting presentation by Jesse James Garrett about Aurora, a design concept for a web browser. Key ideas embodied in the browser include context awareness, natural interaction, continuity and multi-user applications. More information at http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/

In about two weeks time Google will start crawling, indexing, and displaying in search results any Google Apps documents that are published and linked to from a public web site. In about two weeks we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public website to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and [...]

It’s really useful when designers describe how their built their sites, especially when the site is for a small business. A beautiful example is the revised Blue Anjou site: Blue Anjou :: Home via kwout Dirk has a succinct description of how it was put together over on the Concrete 5 forums. I finally migrated our site from our ‘old CMS’ to C5. Using a modified version of the Superfish plug and the Image Slider. [...]

One of the most important factors in choosing a service provider is knowing you can leave.  These days we don’t want to be locked in to a supplier whose service levels have dropped through the floor, whose product features are lagging behind their competitors or who have piled on the bells and whistles until it the one simple job you need to do takes three times as long. Google’s launch of their data liberation site [...]