How many expectations can produce a new homepage? What if deepening in the site, from inner level 1, the layout is stuck to the previous one? How many people are working for a project as wide as the web site of the BBC? How many in the IA team? Is there an IA team or there are Information Architects deployed on different tasks or areas of the site?

BBC.co.uk is possibly the best web site you can find on the world wide web. Quality (and quantity) of content is just great, web site overall look and feel is both a lesson in understatement and usability, giving a top class user experience to users.

Just some examples:

How newspapers approach the digital scenario? A photo gallery of online newspapers. The full gallery is available on Flickr at:

Keep reading for more screenshots.

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And if you are reading this chances are I'm quite right. Stop spending your money for SEO consultancy, and stop spending your time reading those "SEO experts" blogs. I mean, just look at their faces...

Google Maps quite new wizard to embed a map on your site enable users to copy and past the code (you can also chose among a couple of customization options) directly on your web pages. The following is a sample code obtained this way (>>>> signal returns for formatting purposes):

Searching for the terms "Information Architecture" on the New York Times the first two occurrences, related to Information Architecture as the science of organizing and structuring informations on a (digital) media, date to August 3, 1997 (Designing Action) and to August 30, 1999 (E-Commerce Report; On-line merchants find that a well-designed Web site can have a big impact on the bottom line).

From Design Action:

You can now add a photo to your LinkedIn profile.

To know more, A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words or have a look at your LinkedIn profile.

My AdSense account is experiencing problems and I can't access my reports or any other page of the AdSense web. The following is the message Google AdSense is returning on a two lines message.

The AdSense logo, the my user name (in this case my Gmail address, Last Login time log, the Log Out link, the Help link and a Search AdSense Help input form are the elements provided in the header.

The footer offers links to the AdSense Blog, the AdSense Forum, the Privacy Policy, the Terms & Conditions, the Program Policies.

The following is the only info given in the main part of the page:

Error

We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.

Everything you need to know, the easy and clear way

What's going on?

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NYT online brings you living infographics. The following link is on The Art of Pitching.

ADN is a free press Spanish newspaper, the paper version as well as the online version contents are published under a Creative Commons license. The paper version has a quite elegant and functional layout (you can see a pdf version here), designed by newspapers design guru, Antoni Cases (Cases i Associats studio).

For this post we'll focus our attention on the online version of ADN. The web site for ADN is, together with the French Rue89, one of the few site defining an editorial layout for online news sites.

Excellent, and sometimes hilarious, episode of Authors@Google. This one features mr. Avinash Kaushik, of Occam's Razor fame, on Web Analytics 2.0

If you are wondering what Web Analytics 2.0 means, here there's Kaushik definition from his blog:

Discovered through the pages of this blog, a brand new Google AdSense item. Basically it allows users to search for advertisement, that is users are asked to enter a search term into a classic search input box, hit the button (this having some kind of rendering problem) and land on a result page made up of ads. Sounds stupid, but who knows...

See the following image and video to find out what I'm talking about here.

Let's have a look at what are the categories Google suggestions belong to.

Categories & sub categories

The following are the categories I distributed the suggestions to, those are further

Online Shopping

The following are all the suggestions belonging to an online shop web site, that is a web that offers the chance to buy online whatever their business is.

• amazon
• apple
• argos
• amazon.com
• best buy
• bed bath and beyond
• ...

There's a nice Ajax-powered feature Google gives their search engine users, it's called search suggestion and it's available (correct me if I'm wrong here) either using the Google Toolbar for either Internet Explorer or Firefox. or visiting the relevant Google Suggest page on Google Labs.

Search smarter with instant suggestions
as you type in the search box

What it does is suggesting a term after you type a character in the search text input area, just one character is enough to activate this feature.

And the Google Suggestions are...

What exactly are the suggestions Google push you? Let's have a look in alphabetical order.

Google Suggestions for A

If you enter the a letter Google returns the following suggestions:

• amazon (489,000,000)
• argos (10.700,000)
• aol (136,000,000)
• autotrader (3,850,000)
• aol.com (41,600,000)
• apple (231,000,000)
• american airlines (32,900,000)
• amazon.com (210,000,000)
• auto trader (2,900,000)
• addicting games (1,800,000)