There is only one alternative to Google (if at all), that is Bing. I have used it extensively but very frustrated about Bing just refusing to crawl our sites at a much faster rate. Just got this invite from Bing, I clicked on http://www.bing.com/new and I see, I always try to find out why Bing […]
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American Customer Satisfaction Index: Facebook flops, Bing rocks
This report was released little over a week ago “Facebook Flops in ACSI E-Business Report” says, Facebook is the most popular site in the US, but users are not satisfied On a scale of 100 the scores were: Myspace 63, Facebook 64, YouTube 73, Wikipedia 77 This puts Facebook in the bottom 5% of all […]
Options to keep your website Malware free
At times I feel websites are human – they catch some sort of infection (flu) which needs to be attended to immediately, else your reputation (revenues) takes a beating. We at Oneindia.in take steps to keep our site free of any such infections but at times we have failed (possibly only once so far). There […]
Language Bookmarklets: Google gives a big push to Indian languages, yet again!
According to the official Google India Blog, We are happy to announce the launch of a new feature, Transliteration Bookmarklets, that will let you use transliteration on a website that does not support it currently. Transliteration Bookmarklets is a browser-based application that lets you type in your language in any text box on any website […]
Wikia Search Shut
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 🙁 The alpha version was released in Jan 2008. According to an article on Cnet, Wikia was getting merely 10,000 unique […]
