New ad system can detect web detect web shoppers

London: A new tool examines the cursor behaviour of search-engine users to decide if they are shopping or merely surfing.

Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has said that websites like Google commonly display sponsored results above the actual ones, which can be annoying for someone who's not shopping,

Microsoft's IE6 nearing its end

According to web analytics company StatCounter, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 is now truly a relic of the past with less than 5% of market share in the US and Europe. For years, IE6 caused headaches for developers and prompted many users to switch to alternative browsers, It was full of security every web standard in the book. It was also the dominant browser in the early aughts, reaching 90% market share in 2002 and 2003.