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Some thumbshot pictures are enhanced with informative icons or text highlights. Normally, thumbshots are found embedded inline beside Hyperlinks in a web page to help improve Web Browser navigation by helping users to locate information faster. Thumbshots are often used to provide visual hints in Search Engines and Web Directories where a large number of text links are displayed on a page. One of the early applications of thumbshots was developed by Jakob Nielsen while working for Sun Microsystems . The application consisted of capturing and then displaying a small image of a webpage that a user had saved as a bookmark in their Web Browser . At that time, they were referred to as visual bookmarks. Since then, thumbshots have been used in numerous different applications, ranging from Windows Explorer and a desktop search engine like Copernic to Internet Search Engine s and Web Directories which provide a thumbshot preview of a webpage alongside search results. |
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