Is a rival of Google coming soon?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index ...

Yahoo! Please don’t ignore your “registered” users :-(

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

I have been using Yahoo since its inception (or little after its inception). Customer service was rocking at Yahoo in early 1990s. If my memory serves me right I am pretty sure Yahoo email was released after the release of their directory. I use to submit the URLs of mahesh.com ...

Govt of India must take the Internet more seriously

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I visited www.nic.in after a very long time (may be a year). It looks much better now. NIC needs to set aside its love for its own name (nic.in) and "fix" the domainnames of all govt websites. For e.g. why should the URL of President of India still be http://presidentofindia.nic.in/ ...