Keith Bentrup’s Portforlio

Notes:
Marissa Mayer of Google talks about a better, faster, stronger web.
4 key elements of search
-comprehensiveness
-relevancy
-user experience
-speed
Web Index (pages) @ Google
1999 – 30,000,000
2009 – 300,000,000,000 (*10K more!)
Searches per day
1999 – 100,000
2009 – 1,000,000,000
UxD – how does Google make Google better?
A-B Testing!
Scenario: # Results: 10, 20, 30?
Users said “Give us 30 results per page”.
However, [...]

Because I’m prone to forget some of my useful, extended, piped commands, I though I would post a few:
Search specific file types for phrases, print the line numbers, dump the errors:
find -regex ".*\.ext$" | xargs grep -n searchText 2> /dev/null
Search specific files and mod only matching files via sed (creating .old backups)
find -regex ".*\.ext$" | [...]

My Notes
The best user interaction is no interaction. The user is unaware that they are interacting with the interface in any way. Lots of good examples of not clicking. Also examples of bad design. Worth watching.
Aza made me rethink a pagination example that I had been working on. I may do the switch to an [...]

My Notes
N.B. Speaker is a Mozilla developer. Notes may not apply across all browsers. Also note this speaker should have practiced his talk a few times. His awkwardness and stumbling is the worst of the google tech talks that I’ve seen.
The frame / rendering tree composed of rendedered elements, viewport, scroll bars, etc.
Order: content -> [...]