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Here’s a really interesting blog post from the Google blog on how Google analyzes users’ searches using heatmaps.

Now, this is something that is very very interesting as I am a writing on the exact subject, “search”.

You can also do this type of test on your own website using CrazyEgg.

To see what the eye-tracking data we collect looks like, let’s go back to the results page we got for the query [how to tie a tie]. The following video clip shows in real time how a participant in our study scanned the page. And yes, seriously — the video is in real time! That’s how fast the eyes move when scanning a page. The larger the dot gets, the longer the users’ eye pauses looking at that specific location.

via Google Blog

Tags: google, heatmaps, how to tie a tie, own website, participant, real time, video clip, www youtube

This entry was posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Search Engine, google, internet.
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