With the recent press about Cuil, the latest “Google-Killer Search Engine”, it seems that we’ve forgotten the lessons from the late 90s. Cuil’s claim to fame appears to be: It was founded by Ex-Googlers They claim to have a larger web-page index than Google The first point is somewhat interesting, but not exactly a path [...]

Today Joel Spolsky had an odd recommendation: “don’t hide or disable menu items.” His reasoning is that user see disabled menu items and are confused as to why they can’t click on them. So, rather than disabling the menu item, he suggests the following: Instead, leave the menu item enabled. If there’s some reason you [...]