Archive for the ‘search engines’ Category

‘Blame Google’ campaign in Print community hits Indian shores

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Print community in the US has been blaming Google for their downfall. Now this fever has hit the Indian shores. Aroon Purie, chairman and editor-in-chief at The India Today Group, recently said they would not invest anymore in the digital space. I think they do see the importance of the internet, ...

Newspapers, wire services, online publishers: It’s all war

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Publishers like AP etc etc are asking for a revenue share from Google, bloggers and aggregators. But then Google,bloggers could also come back and ask the publisher to share revenue from the traffic generated by them (Google). There is no end to this sharing business.

Wikia Search Shut

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

According to Jimmy Wales blog, Wikia Search has shut on March 31, 2009. Wikia had raised funds from well known personalities and it was being promoted as 'open source search'. It did not take off :-(

Google Webmasters Tools Analyzer – Beta

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

For those who use Google Webmasters Tools you may find Greynium's "GWT Analyzer" useful. For webmasters the reports from GWT have been very useful but if the data you need to analyze is a lot. you would need some extra help.

Google India SearchMasters Conference – a good one

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

I attended Google India SearchMasters 2009 at Google's Bangalore office today. They had a tight program from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Items covered were