Archive for May, 2006

This is going to be a killerG

iPod is a killer of many things…your stress, lonliness, storage limitations and many bulky audio players out there. Now it seems there is one more killer coming on the way for iPod itself.

Gigabeat S Series from Toshina is going be give a tough fight for iPods for sure. Read engadget page for this gadget. This gadget [...]


10 years of Search Engine Watch

Dan Sullivan, editor of the famous SEW remembers his journey of 10 years in writing on search engines in this interesting writeup. Read it.
Some interesting milestones in those 10 years..
1997: 
Microsoft Planning Own Search Engine? & Microsoft ToLaunch Search Engine: Microsoft's going to wipe out Google? Nine years ago, it was wondering if they were going [...]


Google is concerned about a Searchbox and updated Homepage

If you have'nt read about the buzz around google's cry over IE 7's search box. Read it here : Memeorandum Buzz
As an immediate action, google has updated the home page as shown below.

According to Dean hachomovich from IE team, the default search provider for IE 7 search box was not set to MSN Search but [...]


FireFox 2.0 comes with some features cut.

Via OSDir,

Yes the new bookmarking system you might have seen (if you have Bon Echo installed on your machine) is out due to lack of time in the current time frame.

An excerpt : "In an announcement posted to the Mozilla development USENET group, developer
Michael Schroepfer said that the feature can’t be completed adequately within
the the [...]