Search Engines in India Are Being Over-Cautious
22 dec 2009
Search engines in India are filtering out adult content from their search results pages to comply with the Information Technology Act of the Government.
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The Biggest Nuisance on Facebook – Photo Tags
01 dec 2009
Photo tagging applications are a problem on Facebook as they can fill your personal photo album with pictures of odd-looking cartoon characters, collages, horoscopes, etc. Here are some privacy settings to keep tagged photos off your Facebook profile.
Today, 7.5m Web Pages and 8m Images Will Be Deleted from the Internet Permanently
26 oct 2009
Starting today, Yahoo! will delete each and every Geocities hosted web page from the Internet permanently and that would mean a few hundred million broken links on the Internet.
Google Puts an .EXE File on their Homepage
06 oct 2009
If you click the Update Now link on the Google home page, it will download an executable file – setgooglesearch.exe – on the desktop that will set Google as the default search engine inside IE.
Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" Award Banned at Google?
02 oct 2009
The MVP Award is an annual award that is given to people who actively share their technical expertise with the world. A Google employee was recently asked to decline his MVP award.
An Author Links to the Pirated Version of his own Book
23 sep 2009
Roy Osherove was naturally angry when he discovered pirated copies of his book on RapidShare and some people even had the guts to openly share links to those illegal versions of the book on Twitter.
The Simple Things Missing in Google Chrome
16 sep 2009
Google Chrome has been around for more than a year but there are few very basic features are still missing in Chrome. I am not talking about extensions or toolbars here, just the very simple stuff.
Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time
30 may 2009
Here are some Microsoft products and web services that have impressed even some of the strongest critics of the Windows company.
The Highest Paying AdSense Ads May Not Always Be On Top
30 apr 2009
If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not always.
What Twitter Can Learn from Google Reader
26 mar 2009
Tnhe Suggested Users page is probably the most controversial element of Twitter. Think of it as an exclusive club where an entry can help you gain thousands of new followers on Twitter in a single day.
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