A Conflagration of Randomness

Google gets fined for copyright infringement: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8420876.stm

Google recently launched a tool to help you view your website in a new way, the way the majority of the people in the world view it.  Their tool, Browser Size, shows web developers the percentage of web users who can see sections of their site without having to scroll.  This is determined by monitor size as well as whether the browser is resized.  So now web developers know if that visitors can actually see that ad or poll they posted there.

According to Google:

The data is generated based on the browser size of users who visit Google.com. Google says that it found that the install rate for Google Earth increased by a whopping 10% simply by moving it 100 pixels higher on the page.

Below is a screenshot of what this blog looks like on browser size.