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Search for “Desktop Search”

June 2, 2007

The other day I was reading about the popular Desktop search tools on a popular technology site. The 3 tools featured were Google Desktop Search Microsoft Desktop Search Yahoo Desktop Search I was immediately keen to know as to how Google, Microsoft and Yahoo display their respective desktop search products on their search engines. Search [...]

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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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Checking backlinks

April 16, 2007

Backlinks are the incoming links to a website or web page and the number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of the website or a web page. Search engines often use the number of backlinks that a website has as one of the factors for determining the website’s search engine ranking. [...]

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President of India asks a question !

January 18, 2007

Now this is interesting ! The President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam asks a question on Yahoo Answers as a part of Ask the Planet ! 7863 people seem to have answered till now ! Also don’t forget to checkout the interesting comment thread going on at Digg !

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Run Multiple Instances of Flickr Uploadr ?

January 16, 2007

Flickr the best online photo management and sharing application also has the best photo uploader tool. The uploader installation binary is small 648KB) and also in “run mode” the application takes the least amount of memory and CPU cycles. You can create sets and assign tags while uploading the photos. However one of the problems [...]

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Blogging From Flickr !

December 22, 2006

Originally uploaded by venukb. Trying out the “Blog This” feature of Flickr ! Also ever since I found out about the macro mode in my camera, I have been shooting photos of flowers like crazy ! Don’t believe me ! Check this flickr set  

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My Flickr Photos

December 11, 2006

I bought the Flickr Pro account 4 days back and I managed to used 87% of the upload capacity(2GB) for the month !! And I still have GB’s of photos to upload . Shouldn’t Flickr give more bandwidth for the first month after signing up ?? Here is the link to the my Flickr Photostream [...]

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More wallpapers

November 8, 2006

Over 1,800 Flickr users have supposedly posted their favorite wallpaper photos here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/wallpapers/pool/ And yes, most of the photos are tagged, so if you are looking for something specific, you can always use the search feature And don’t miss the Top 5 tag listing at the bottom of the page …

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Damn Yahoo !

October 14, 2006

As mentioned in one of my previous posts, my Yahoo account was compromised because of possible a phishing attack. Other than being my first email ID on Internet, many services like Flickr (fortunately not a pro account), yahoo photos etc were linked with this account. To make things worse I am not able to reset [...]

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Running Multiple Instances of Yahoo and Google IM

September 18, 2006

Check this screenshot: This is the memory usage of Yahoo IM when its initially started on my machine ! So with this kind of memory usage, why would anyone want to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger ? My first E-Mail ID was with Yahoo and was created 8 years back. I recently created a [...]

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