How to Use Bounce Rate as a Quality Guide

What Is a Bounce Rate? A bounce occurs when a user visits a website and exits the page from which they came without having moved to another page on the same website. A higher bounce rate means users leave your website without viewing any additional pages. A lower bounce rate means users stay on your website and have moved to a different page within your website. Keeping track of your bounce rate is a fantastic quality indicator to determine which pages are working for you. Before you become alarmed, know this: a high bounce...

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FREE! Read Indian graphic novels online

Utter the words ‘Internet’, ‘comics’ and ‘free’ in the same breath, and the words ‘online piracy’ crop up inadvertently. But don’t worry; we’re not urging you to download off Piratebay. We’re talking about graphicindia. com, a website dedicated to Indian graphic novels. The comic site features works by writers Samit Basu, Samik Dasgupta and Siddharth Kotian among others. But here’s the best part — you can read an ongoing series for free, one chapter a week. Author Samit Basu says, “The model of free comics is nearly 60 years old....

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Digital object identifier (DOI) becomes an ISO standard

A new International Standard that provides a system for assigning a unique international identification code to objects for use on digital networks is expected to bring benefits for publishers, information managers, multi-media distributors, archive and cultural heritage communities, and the internet technology industry.   Published by ISO (International Organization for Standardization), ISO 26324:2012, Information and documentation -- Digital object identifier system, is an efficient means of identifying an entity over the Internet...

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LIS UGC NET Questions and Answers June 2012

1. Roget Thesaurus is Classified manner 2. TCP/IP is a Internet Protocol 3. In AACR2 Part A section 12 deals with Serials Publication. 4. In Key word Indexing Author keyword Index is WADEX 5. Odd one in ANSI, BIS, BSI, ESPN 6. Internet acting as a-. 7. BIOS is a booting software 8. Scale and projections are seen in Geographical Sources 9. Segmentation associated with Information marketing 10. Stop word list used in Automated keyword Indexing 11. Relation between two subject is Phase relation 12. Redundancy in information is Unwanted...

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Why Library Catalogues are not as user-friendly as Search Engines?

Traditional library card catalogues are data-centered ‘handicrafts’ with lots of rigid rules controlling their access and descriptions and hence naturally very much under-used. Since the legacy is continued in modern Online Public Access Catalogues(OPACs) as early OPACs functioned like digital version of card catalogs, end-users also continued to admire library card catalogs and OPACs as ‘handicrafts’ than understand and use them extensively....

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How Google Search Engine Works

First of all it's important to recognize how Google works. Essentially Google has a huge database that it refers to and which it builds automatically with the help of spiders and robots. These spiders are PHP scripts (programs running on the Google server) which surf the web as we do by following links from one page to another. When they find a page, they will then attempt to categorize it by looking for words that...

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