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/via http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2014/9/13/simply-explained Well,  is  Auto-Complete awesome? Lets look at it, starting with the above Things that are hard to spell : Take my name for example — “ Paolini-Subramanya ”. The way I spell it is “ P. A.O. and a whole bunch more ”, which is just about sufficient for the restaurant to look up the reservation. Saving on Typing : And, conversely, when they’re taking my name down at the hair salon (for a  beard trim . have you  seen  my head?), it’s again just about the same. The first time around, though, involved around 2 minutes of chaos, including me finally typing in my own name. Improve Suggestions : Ok, now we’re getting into Search, but this can really help, especially when the user doesn’t really know what they’re searching for. Decrease Negative Results : More Search, but this time around decreasing the amount of un-necessary, irrelevant, (and sometimes  wrong ) results that you get. This...

via Information Geographies , we have a chloropleth of the most visited web-sites by country - weighted by that country's internet-using population. The weighting is particularly useful, as it keeps mail.ru from taking over the top-spot due to the sheer size of Russia. The key take-aways? The supremacy of Google and Facebook over any other site on the Web is clearly apparent. We also see an interesting geographical continuity of these two “empires”. Google is the most visited website in most of Europe, North America, and Oceania. Facebook, in contrast, is the most visited website in most of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as much of the Spanish-speaking Americas.  The situation is more complex in Asia, as local competitors have been able to resist the two large American empires.  Baidu  is well known as the most used search engine in China, which is currently home to the world’s largest Internet population at over half a billion users. At the same time...