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 […]
‘Blame Google’ campaign in Print community hits Indian shores
Has print community started blaming Google for their fall?
Indian language keyboard options
One of the things I often hear from the VC world about the Indian language space is – UGC is lacking, entering text in languages is difficult. Regarding UGC all I would say is that Oneindia.in has seen a growth in language UGC (comments, article contribution, feedback emails). Indian Language Fonts Every language, including English, […]
Newspapers, wire services, online publishers: It’s all war
Publishers like Associated Press 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. If a publisher doesn’t want Google to benefit from their […]
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 […]