{"id":216,"date":"2007-09-11T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/local-links-of-interest-6\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T17:55:13","slug":"local-links-of-interest-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/11\/local-links-of-interest-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Links of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.searchenginewatch.com\/blog\/070910-090000\">Ask removes search box from default mobile search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the post:<em>What Ask found in their user testing is that users would immediately go to the search box and start trying to use it. While this sounds like it offers what the user wants, the fact is that accomplishing simple things like finding our the weather in San Francisco can take 70 keystrokes if you are on a mobile device without a QWERTY keyboard (for example entering the letter C requires you to hit the 2 button 3 times)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All I can say is AMEN to that. 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