Thursday, October 19, 2006

Google goes Solar

Google has announced employing huge solar panels to provide around 1.6 MW energy for its Googleplex, surprisingly this meets only 30 percent of its energy needs. This will be the largets corporate US solar installation. The costs of the installation are not known, but it has been designed by El Solutions and Google plans to recover the costs in around 10 years. Seeing the energy needs of Google i would say a significant and critical investment by them.

Friday, October 13, 2006

A local search for India

Finally a much needed search engine for India, exclusively. This search engine is local in true sense. This search engine has been started by two IIT graduates, and has been funded by Sequoi capital. With the internet penetration rate of around 5 percent, there are already around 60 million searches from India and Guruji certainly has a large market for itself.
ok now enough for the background of the site, some experience of using the site. I used guruji local search, ya there is local search even within India, for "pizza pune", and it gave me the addresses of various pizza places in Pune. just one addition needed, the search should also show the url of the site, if available.
but i must say a very nice piece of work. Accolades to the developers!!!

Yahoo Surrogate email

I must commend Yahoo! on one innovation in its mail system. It has come out with a much needed surrogate email id, which you can delete as and when u want and it works more or less like a normal email id. A good way to control the spams that come from registrations to various sites...

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Yahoo launches mail beta

Yahoo comes out with yet another improvement in mail to compete with Gmail. A few good things about it, its faster, the tab system is quiet helful..ok for now i could find only these many good points.....now for the bad points...the window is just tooo cluttered now.....they hav done away with the check boxes, but i guess that was much easier to handle for a technically averse person...attachments still take that much time...Yahoo has shown no innovation, first it emulates outlook, something like Google calendar has been added , you can add events in that calendar, you have a notepad, much like Google notepad, which infact is downloadable and not just limited to mails.....comeone Yahoo! instead of providing a mixture of things already present why not come out with something new and how about a little improvement in performance.....

one more thing i would like to add here...today i had a mail in which there was a big table embedded, and it was really tough to read the table properly in the same frame called reading pane, there should be a way to expand it to window size, and if there already is, Yahoo! should make it a bit obvious, cause E-mailing is a daily thing and I cant waste my time and energy figuring out hidden ways of doing something....

all this makes me more and more convinced that decision to migrate to Gmail was right....

Friday, October 06, 2006

Yahoo! Search Builder

Yahoo has launched its search engine builder, options for search for one's site, for customised web search and for yahoo news search.
In customised web search they provide options to prioritise the web sites to look into while searching, to give the priority search words, and also to exclude a few searches. I have been trying to put this search box since long in this blog and its creating errors. But yahoo search builder needs some improvements like, though i have given priority words, the search results do come with irrelevant results, not related to the words i have given at all, then the excluded words are not always properly excluded and might appear in one form or the other. Just a few of the errors i have been able to spot till now...havent been able to put it up on the blog yet, its code is creating errors in the blog, hope to do that soon.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

sponsored links in orkut

hey guys check out the communities in Orkut...you ll find a new section for sponsored links in the bottom section of the page....