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We've learnt from our research that user attention while reading an article is substantially greater than anything in the sidebar, footer, or in the banner. In this context, even though attention is the highest, user interest to click and wander is lowest. However, the experience while reading the article completely determines what kind of content they'd love to explore into, after they have read

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Update: The bookmarklet mentioned in this article has now moved to driLLL. Here's a video that shows the benefits of driLLL. Original article is retained here: How often have you landed on a page, filled with links and wondered which links you should follow on? How often have you wondered if there's something useful behind a link? We've just launched a new bookmarklet today, that changes

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Almost every successful publisher and blogger I've met says this: "Search referrals drive 50-70% of my traffic." Though this does not raise eye brows anymore, publishers have mostly done nothing different for these search referrals. Direct traffic (from home page hits, RSS readers, Twitter and Facebook) differs from search engine referrals in visitor patterns - all very visible in your favorite

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Getting used to a page like this, even from highly respectable sites like pluggd.in is a common affair these days. What you see is the whole view above the fold, on my high resolution laptop. Other than the title, I dont see anything relevant to me on the page, above the fold. Pluggd.in is not alone here, in undermining the interests of their visitors versus their monetary compulsions. Most

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The web has immense data on any topic. Traditionally search engines only return lists of links. Its up to the user to open those links and look for information. This causes search fatigue. An approach towards search retrieval - called faceted search, aims to help reduce this pain. What is faceted search? Also called as faceted navigation, exploratory search, faceted browsing, guided navigation

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At this stage in the web's magnificent story, getting and staying informed on the web has splintered into many products, and processes. Search engines match a user's intent with content. Social bookmarking tools allow users to tag and share their information consumption experience. Social networks have taken over the dissemination of interesting and relevant information. This has resulted in

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80% of the readers of this article will not read further than 3 sentences! They'll quickly scroll through the page, look for interesting pictures, and then move on. Have you noticed that you normally spend more time on a Wikipedia page than other pages - even if they had the same content? Do you find it painful to read through the snippets and page titles beyond the top 3 search results? Do you

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I've been passionate about information dissemination on the Internet ever since I first came in touch with it. In a country like India, where information was often hoarded and brokered, the Internet seemed to be the holy grail that would cause disintermediation - keep people informed in a relevant and timely manner. When there was a flurry of activity around news sources going online, with

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