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Search Result Link screwed by Google Personalized Search ?

May 17, 2007

Google Personalized Search which was out of Beta this February was enabled by default for every Google account. Once you login to your Google Account, your entire “Web History” is being recorded by Google. The recording is not just limited to Google Search; in fact searches across the various Google services such as Image Search, [...]

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Google Analytics Reloaded

May 10, 2007

Just a few days back I bought licensed copy of Mint; the cute powerful Web analytics application. When I wrote about Mint some days back I also mentioned about the poor navigation interface in Google Analytics Looks like I was not the only one complaining; Jeff Veen and Brett Corsby unveiled the new version of [...]

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RSS Bandit – Alternative to FeedDemon

April 17, 2007

FeedDemon, the popular RSS feed reader for windows is/was one of my favorite application. It has a clean user friendly interface and reading/managing the feeds is a treat with this application. Its also one of the few desktop based readers which can synchronize with an online service -Newsgator. However FeedDemon comes at a price (30$) [...]

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MeasureMap – What ever happened ?

March 20, 2007

When I initially started this blog I signed up with Statcounter service which showed me detailed data of visitors reading my posts. It was exciting and nice to see the increasing number of visitors every day. However the free service of Statcounter has limited functionality and you infer less data with more visitors visiting your [...]

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GMail Ads

February 22, 2007

GMail, Google’s free webmail service is a top class service in comparison to Microsoft’s Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. GMail which was “invite only”, recently opened up its service worldwide to everyone. Now all you to need to get a GMail account is to signup Now Google is even running Ads to promote GMail !! No [...]

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Krugle – Another code search engine

February 19, 2007

Koders is a code search engine which enables developers to easily search and browse source code hosted on thousands of open source repositories. Krugle (which sounds like Google) is yet another search engine focused on developers and intends to make code search easier and faster. One of the nice features about this search engine is [...]

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Gmail – No Invite Required

February 16, 2007

Gmail sign-ups are now open worldwide including India ! No more waiting for someone to invite you just create an account directly at www.gmail.com. Meanwhile Mark Malseed has an interesting story on Sergey Brin (Google’s Cofounder)

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SearchMash

February 12, 2007

SearchMash as the name suggests is a mashup of a Search Engine and is created and maintained by Google itself ! Surprisingly you don’t see any Google logo in the index page or the search result page. Only the TOS page seems to confirm that the site is maintained by Google ! When it was [...]

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Technorati is so easily spammed

February 1, 2007

Technorati , the Internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs has probably one of the worst spam filters. BSNL, one of the popular Internet Service Provider in India, recently introduced 2Mbps bandwidth across all plans. I wanted to check the experience of the customers/bloggers using BSNL. A Technorati search for the same (http://technorati.com/search/bsnl) [...]

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Merry for spammers in Orkut

January 15, 2007

Orkut, the Internet social network service run by Google allows you to post personal or professional information and link to friends and acquaintances. The service which was available only by invitation was recently opened up for all users. Also unlike other services you don’t need a Google Account to access Orkut. These are some of [...]

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