February 21st, 2010 admin
Here’s an experiment in how well the search engines can OCR (Optical Character Recognition) an image.
Below is a selection of images in different formats, with different styles. Once this blog post has been indexed, I’ll be looking to see which images have been OCR’d (if any) to examine the current state of text recognition within images indexed by the major search engines.
I’ll post a follow-up article once I’ve collated the results.
So here’s the images – over to you search engines!
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February 11th, 2010 admin
There are two ways to do this:
1) Click on the Insert menu and select Symbol. You can then select the Euro symbol.
2) Type Alt+0128
More details and instructions for other keyboards here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HP052754081033.aspx
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February 10th, 2010 admin
In the ongoing effort to increase the speed of www.scotiasystems.com (See our SEOMoz article), I’ve come across “webpagetest” – a free tool which is excellent for reporting on the speed of downloading each resource on a page. The reporting is excellent, and you can also choose where in the world you would like to run the test from. Excellent if you’re targeting a specific location.
Give it a try here: www.webpagetest.org
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