Ask.com’s Binoculars - Help or Hinderace?

By : Ajaxian  |    On : 2006 August 18  


Tag : AJAX

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With search engines pushing more and more to find that next great feature, you never know what they’ll come up with. When Ask.com decided to shake things up and rework their site, they included “handy binocular functionality” to show a preview of the site. Unfortunately, as is talked about in this new article on SpectorBrain.com, this might not be exactly what web developers had in mind. One such feature, named “Binoculars“, allows the user to see a site preview by rolling over a, you guessed it, ...

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