Tiffany B. Brown

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Donnie Darko
I caught redesign fever

The title attribute and search result links

While searching the SURL site, I noticed that many of the page titles were cut off.

I won’t go in to what makes a good page title, or why page titles are important. But perhaps Google should add the title attribute — featuring the complete page title — to each link. When a user moused-over, the complete title would appear.

And the code would look like this:

<a href="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/52/breadcrumb.htm"
title="Usability News - 5.2 2003 -- Breadcrumb Navigation: Further
Investigation of Usage">Usability News - 5.2 2003 -- Breadcrumb
<b>Navigation</b>: Further ...</a>
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