Fewer and fewer, it seems. A study by web analytics company WebSideStory find that fewer Internet users are “surfing” these days, preferring instead to go directly to the site they want. According to the survey, 64 percent arrive at sites through direct navigation — that’s up from 53% last year.
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Bob Ambrogi of LawSites has a new article on lawyer bloggers who talk about other things than the law.
The New York Times’ Ethicist column discusses the pros and cons of “Googling” the man you just went on a date with. We’ve all done it — haven’t we?
Jerry Lawson has an interesting post today on free search engines vs. Westlaw or Lexis, where he asks the question, can free search engines like Google ever be better for legal research than paid services like Westlaw and Lexis? I think (much to the disdain of West and Lexis) any research project should begin…
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is working on ways to improve the URL, to give developers a cleaner way to design Web services.
eBay has announced that it will provide health care insurance coverage for its “power sellers,” those who sell $1,000 or more worth of goods per month on the site.
Then you still have time to do some Christmas shopping online at work, along with the rest of the people in this New York Times article.
A report by a London-based market research company finds that about 30% of citizens using the Internet have accessed online government services, up from 26% a year ago.
