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 a warning which said the site was infected with Malware and the reasons too were shown. Google and Stopbadware work “together” […]
Webmaster Tools: Feature Request for Bulk Deletion of URLs
Most webmasters use Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) to submit their URLs to Google. Yahoo had 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. GWT gives a good insight into what Google sees in your site. They have a […]
How to determine if Indian languages are wanted on the internet?
Ajit Balakrishnan’s comment “Let us not assume users want Indian languages” got me to think why people think Indian languages are not “wanted” on the internet. I wasn’t at that conference, so I don’t know what was exactly said. My thoughts and reactions are completely based on Medianama’s post. It is wrong to assume Indian […]
Social Networking Sites being used by Citizen Journalists in US Presidential Election
TwitterVoteReport.com (no longer functional) was a site for sharing your voting experience during 2008 US Presidential elections. Their help page has the details about how to participate in reporting your experience. On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote. Some […]
Google Chrome released on Ganesh Chaturthi
Google’s browser Chrome was released when India was celebrating Ganesha festival in 2008. All functions in India start with first taking blessings from Lord Ganesha.