Monthly Archives: June 2011

How much text should you have on a homepage?

Matt Cutts of GoogleThe content on your home page is an important tool for search engine optimisation, but many site owners are reluctant to put too much information on this page. Many wish only to have graphical content and leave the text for inner pages.

So are they right? Google expert, Matt Cutts, responded recently to the question: “More or less content on a home page?”

View Matt Cutts’ video response

Facebook enables facial reconition

Facial recognitionFacebook has begun rolling out facial recognition in UK Facebook accounts and at the same time has made the default privacy settings in your account: “Suggest photos of me to friends”.

Facial recognition in Facebook was designed to make it easier for users to tag friends when they upload photos to their own account. Unless you change your account settings to disable face recognition, Facebook now automatically scans the faces in all uploaded images and tries to identify you within them. Friends are then encouraged to tag you in their photos.

The dangers of Facebook face recognition software

Facebook settings to disallow face recognition

face iconFacebook have recently rolled out face recognition on its UK accounts. This means when friends upload photos, Facebook automatically scans all the faces and is building a huge database of named photographs of Facebook users.

The privacy setting in Facebook is, by default “Suggest photos of me to friends” . If you do not wish to have your name suggested for tagging every time an image of you is uploaded, here’s how to change the settings:

How to change Facebook settings to disable face recognition