Can Digg Find Its Way in the Crowd?
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
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Google User Experience
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
Shopping Innovations
By Mary Bellis The Mall A shopping center, shopping mall, or shopping plaza, is the modern adaptation of the historical marketplace. The mall is a collection of independent retail stores, services, and a parking area,…
Watching the Catwalk, and Clicking ‘Add to Cart’
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
Bachelorette Cooking Parties (Girls Gone Mild!)
By DIANA CERCONE Published: August 13, 2010 CHEFS and private cooking-class instructors say they are seeing a spike in requests for bachelorette cooking parties. Why are brides trading in their shot glasses for aprons and…
Fending Off the Weeds With Newsprint
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
American Holidays
Official information and services from the U.S. government Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American. With the wide…
Find the Best Places to Live Before You Move – Top Places to Live in the World
By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide Finding the best places to live takes a little research. Many companies and organizations have done a lot of the legwork for you, having compiled data and conducted surveys to…
Space Commandos Back at War, With Retooled Combat Gizmos
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
Car Sharing: Ownership by the Hour
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
Video Clips on the Web for Scouting and Laughs
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
Resale Fees That Only Developers Could Love
By JANET MORRISSEY Published: September 11, 2010 REBECCA AND TRENT DUPAIX of Eagle Mountain, Utah, spent a year searching for their dream home. The couple, who have five children, considered 15 to 20 houses before…
Nation of Individuals Sees Tennis Identity Fade
By GEORGE VECSEY Published: September 6, 2010 It’s Noah’s Ark time at the United States Open, with one Venus Williams and one Sam Querrey left amid the rising tide of Spaniards and Eastern Europeans. This…
Health Plan Won’t Fuel Big Spending, Report Says
By ROBERT PEAR Published: September 9, 2010 WASHINGTON — A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing…
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
Job Satisfaction vs. a Big Paycheck
By PHYLLIS KORKKI Published: September 11, 2010 Does earning a higher salary make you happier? It’s an issue that tugs at many of us: the tradeoff between a satisfying job and a satisfying paycheck. Students…
Google Advertises Its Display Advertising
By TANZINA VEGA September 9, 2010 Google is rolling out a new advertising campaign on Thursday for its display advertising platform. The campaign, called Watch This Space, will run in advertising trade magazines and in other…
Burglars Picked Houses Based on Facebook Updates
By NICK BILTON September 12, 2010 If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status…
To Create Jobs, Nurture Start-Ups
By STEVE LOHR Published: September 11, 2010 MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new insights. Consider the subject of jobs…
Google Unveils Tool to Speed Up Searches
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: September 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type. On Wednesday, Google…
GeoClickz – Mission Statement
To stimulate local economic growth by providing a robust, extensive user created directory of local business webpages which can be searched and accessed from any internet browsing device, all available to both the business owners…
GeoClickz – Our Philosophy
Many businesses have been struggling with the recession impacting all of us over the last several years. GeoClickz is dedicated to enriching the local economy in cities all across America. We help build long term…