Category: web-software
Reasons to Dislike Technorati
Sorry for the small post unrelated to India. I have been Technorati tagging since the beginning and pretty upset with the guys who run the Engineering section at Technorati. Their site’s performance is so poor that most of the times when I try to access, it doesn’t respond. Go search…
StopBadware inducted in Google’s Engine
Google Inc, the company which openly mentioned its corporate punch line as “Do No Evil” is fighting the Evil companies by Issuing a Warning as shown above in its search results. Now if you still want to access the website thinking your Windows Service Pack or Anti-Virus will protect you,…
Sunsilk GangOfGirls venture into Music, TV and Jobs
India’s number one Social networking website, Sunsilk Gang of Girls has quietly launched whole new set of features for its members. Some of the features that we reviewed and are really cool are the Astrology, Rhythm Lounge, Gang of Girls TV – GoG TV, and Hot Jobs. The Astrology section…
Google Search Engine, Orkut and AdWords localized
Google’s VP for Asia-Pacific and Latin American operations, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy unveiled Google’s plans for India. After major Telcos, its time for Google to embrace the Rural Indians. Google plans to offer Weather Updates, Crop Patterns and other local data. Cassidy also said, How to make the search engine simpler…
Google – News in Hindi
Google is leaping ahead of Yahoo! and Microsoft in India as well. Just last week they launched Blogger Transliteration in Hindi and today they have unveiled a Hindi News aggregation service for 1 Billion Indians. Google news in Hindi is a product of Google’s Bangalore Lab. Google’s crawlers, crawl the…
Web 2.0: Rating and Reviews
Most of the Web 2.0 was dominated by Yahoo and I am not sure why was it so. Yahoo! may have just launched the Context Ads system – Panama, but they have some interesting web properties like Answers and Review/Rating [R/R] platform for the following Y! News and Yahoo! Local…
Guruji to focus on Local Language Search Engine
Bangalore’s hottest search startup, Guruji.Com which so far has done an impeccable job is all set to launch local language search. Guruji.Com last quarter integrated Yellow Pages in City Search and overall its focus on crawling sites related to India has been very good. They also have India’s Sr. Internet…
BSNL to setup 2 data centers
State owned BSNL is planning to spend Rs 1500 crore to setup two data centres to lessen the burden of hosting content locally for Global internet giants such as eBay, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. BSNL’s aggressive data centre expansion is part of a multi-pronged effort led by Union minister for…