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Search as Navigation On the Rise

Compete has shared some interesting data indicating that web users are increasingly using search engines to simply navigate to the sites they want to visit. For example, they are typing "facebook" in Google rather than just going to facebook.com from their address bar. Following is a look at the fastest growing search terms according to Compete, for the top five search engines. You'll notice that this list is largely dominated by brand names.

Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure

"Even the iPhone’s browser can disappoint. It has a version of the Apple Safari browser that doesn’t support Flash, a programming language widely used on Web sites, so users are limited in what they can see on the Web.

Pop Goes The Mobile Ad

Startups think taking over the mobile screen with ads will be the key to making money on wireless devices. It looks like Google disagrees.

Google Releases Safe Browsing API

Google has a new API, a Safe Browsing API, which uses all the data Google has gathered about dangerous webpages, like those with spyware, malware, and other general “badware”*.

Analyzing Flickr

The Future of Communities Blog -- Social browsing vs. technology-enabled navigation - The future of communities points us to an interesting academic research paper done analyzing behavior on Flickr. The paper, written by Kristina Lerman at USC and Laurie Jones at Mills College, looks at how views, faves, and comments are generated at Flickr. Their conclusion?

Online Home Browsing More Common

The number of people going online to seek housing information has doubled since 2000, the Pew Internet and American Life Project reported. As that number increases, it seems local advertisers and business owners are missing out on some golden opportunities. There has to be a way to combine local targeting and online housing listings.

No Banners Please, We're Browsing

Graphical banner ads have become the panhandlers of the Internet: very few people look at them anymore even if ads are right in front of them.

UpSNAP Offers Cash for Mobile Browsing

If you're going to use your cell phone to search for entertainment, news and weather, you may as well use a service that gives you a chance to win ten big ones

IE Blogger Clears Tracks and Gathers Comments

The Internet Explorer blog continues to rock and roll.

Google Safe Browsing May Be Unsafe

The new Firefox plug-in from Google that helps to thwart phishing schemes may itself pose a problem to uses due to a security flaw.