It gave companies detailed information about, say, how many seconds it takes a consumer visiting their web site to open their web page on a browser.

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Open a Web page, and your browser includes a single URL, but the page you are viewing is actually made up of content from all over the place.

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Quick Response, or QR, codes are a type of barcode loaded with information that, when scanned with a phone or other device, can open a web page, social media site or video (users first need to download an app, available for iPhone, iPad and Android).

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The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page.

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Such cheap, off-the-rack software will indeed open up Web design to artists, the way Adobe opened up page design 15 years ago.

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For instance, consumers could open up a chat screen within their browser and drag a video from a Web page into the screen to share immediately.

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At least some of those words today were directed at his rivals, with Page calling out Microsoft and Oracle when asked about how he views progress in Web technologies and open standards.

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