Archive for the ‘search engines’ Category

It’s official: Google is no God but just human ;-)

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Last week we had some panic time at work. Trust me, it wasn't fun. Few of our oneindia.in channels started being shown as "infected". If you are a Firefox user you would be shown an warning which said the site was infected with Malware and the reasons too were shown.

Webmaster Tools: Feature Request for Bulk Deletion of URLs

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Most webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) to submit their URLs to Google. Yahoo has a similar product - Site Explorer and Microsoft too has one. GWT by far is the best and is far ahead of the so called competitors.

Social Networking Sites being used by Citizen Journalists in US Presidential Election

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Check out Twitter Vote Report, a site for sharing your experience in voting during the Nov 4 US Presidential elections. Their help page has the details about how to participate in reporting your experience.

Microsoft’s proposal undervalues us, says Yahoo

Friday, March 21st, 2008

For those who like to get into the details, check out what Yahoo has filed with the SEC [it can take a while to load, follow exhibit 99.2]. Few points in the document,

For Kannadigas only: What if Google and Ebay merged?

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

These days you have been hearing about GooHoo, MicroHoo etc. But now a question for those who understand Kannada, Q: What will the entity be called if Google and Ebay merged? Ans: GooBay.