Mouse Pointer Placement May Influence Google Search Rankings, Advertisement Placement, and Oneboxes

Is Google Keeping an Eye on Your Mouse Pointer Placement? Information about where searchers hover their mouse pointers over different parts of search results, as well as advertisements and Google Onebox results, may be collected by the search engine to be used as ranking signals to determine in part how relevant those items may be … Read more

Some Random Observations

People still read books. I started on Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness not long ago. I’m about a fifth of the way through, and I’ve already added “Choice architecture” to my list of concepts to study more, and I’m looking more carefully at the choices I make. Seeing a lot of intriguing … Read more