internet: Google Understands Logo Design... and its visitors!
- 12/12/06 05:13 AM
I think most would agree that logos are an important part of a business. Take Google, for example. I can recall when it started gaining in popularity several years ago, one of the things that attracted people to their search engine was its simplicity... a fresh, crisp, clean homepage that wasn't loaded up with ads, little flashy things, and other bells & whistles that scream "look here, look over here". It was a plain and simple search engine that just seemed to ask the obvious... "what are you looking to find?... enter it here". Over the years they haven't changed their tune. Let's examine their logo … (24 comments)
internet: Free Online Courses - HP Learning Center
- 09/21/06 12:52 AM
This one is for any of you who have struggled with technology and software issues. The HP Learning Center offers FREE online courses, some of which are ideal for real estate agents and/or their assistants. I've taken several of these courses over the years and have found them to be helpful. Most classes are about 6 weeks long, but they also offer a few that are "quick lessons". They even allow you to sign up to be notified whenever one of the courses you'd like to take will be offered. Upon completion of each course they provide you with a certificate in PDF … (18 comments)
internet: Wikipedia and Real Estate
- 09/12/06 10:09 AM
An interesting article in today's MarketWatch suggests that companies (in general, not necessarily real estate companies) are having to spend millions of dollars on improving their particular brand's search engine rankings because Wikipedia has become so successful. Due to the fact that Wikipedia's content is written by individuals (not companies), the content does not always favor the company's image and people are sometimes influenced by what they read in the entries. From what I could see, there was very little written about the larger real estate companies, though I suspect that will change over time. Here is a selection of Wikipedia entries relating … (15 comments)
internet: Google Real Estate Search - Then and Now
- 09/12/06 04:13 AM
While reading one of the 9/11 blog posts yesterday, I came across an interesting link that made me want to find out more. The link was to what the Google homepage looked like on 9/11/01, which showed that you could "search 1,610,476,000 web pages". These were ALL the pages Google had indexed as of that date. Fast-forward 5 years later to 9-11-06 and Google no longer shows the number of pages you can search. However, just so we have a point of reference as to how much the Internet has changed over the past 5 years, I Googled the words "real estate" … (6 comments)
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S. Leanne Paynter ☼ Broward County, FL
Davie, Plantation, Cooper City & Weston Specialist
I think most would agree that logos are an important part of a business. Take Google, for example. I can recall when it started gaining in popularity several years ago, one of the things that attracted people to their search engine was its simplicity... a fresh, crisp, clean homepage that wasn't loaded up with ads, little flashy things, and other bells & whistles that scream "look here, look over here". It was a plain and simple search engine that just seemed to ask the obvious... "what are you looking to find?... enter it here". Over the years they haven't changed their tune.
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