3. Navigation and Labeling Systems

This post is about the navigation and labeling system of a particular website. I've chosen the search engine website called google.com

                                                             

Label	Destination's Heading Label	Destination's Title Label
Header Menu
You+	google+	Google+
Search	Google	Google
Maps	Google	Google Maps
News	Google	Google News
Play	Google Play	Google Play
Gmail	Gmail	Gmail
Drive	Drive	Google Drive
Calendar	Calendar	Google Calendar
Youtube	youtube	youtube

1.What labels you did not like and why, and suggests improvement.)?

Google's style and presentation looks nice and simple. The design of the page is fairly simple which is one the most important thing when it comes to requirements is a website. Google have easy navigation, it relies on Home page

  2.Whether there were any inconsistencies in the labelling system between the pages (in terms of style, presentation, syntax, granularity, comprehensiveness and audience) 

Google keeps its home page very simple and consistence. This prevents the user from distraction and makes the users to complete their task successfully in easy and simple way. However Google’ navigation on youtube.com makes different from other Google’s pages. For instance YouTube does not have top navigation bar and also it have different Heading Label from

3. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why)

bing.com

Bing also uses a simple layout which is similar to Google. Bing implemented changing background automatically on its home page as part of getting more users attractive to it; however Google still have more users who have found Google more attractive. 

3.B. Examine at least two other similar or competing web sites. How similar are the labelling systems? Is any one site clearly the winner (and if so, why).

Ask.com

Ask.com has different concept to Google and Bing. Ask is a question answering-focused web search engine. Ask has nice and simple interface to use, however the heading does not clearly shows property
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The winner is Google

 

From what I see I believe Google is the most useful website with the best labelling system. The heading stays the same on the top of the screen on all pages. It makes all these labels very easy to access. The only disadvantage I see is YouTube which has different to other pages