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Are you Binging yet?

Sheen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:28:04 +0000

Bing sure is a funny name for a search engine. The only other Bing I know is Mr Chandler Bing and he was funny. This Bing however is serious stuff. For the first time since Google came around, it has serious competition and for the first time I (a serious Google search user) have started considering another search engine as an alternative. It is still early days for Bing and there sure will be a lot of improvements in the pipeline but Bing doesn’t fail to impress. Mr Ballmer must be very happy to hear about Bing’s apparent early success.

Who is competition for the mighty Google search engine? On paper, there is Yahoo! search, Ask search, and now Bing search. If you have used it you will find how close Bing is to being a real threat to Google. Bing is already making bigger plans for the future by teaming up with Wolfram Alpha.

Watch out Google!

What is the weight of Data?

Sheen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:50:11 +0000

This HAS to be the most hilarious technical thread ever! A question was posted on one of Microsoft’s technical forums (by a person who apparently created that ID just to ask this question) to find out why his laptop was getting heavier the more he used it. The question sure was innocently dumb but the answers are wickedly funny. A great read.

Click here to read the article.

Polaris Anyone?

Sheen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:19:00 +0000

Do you use Google Analytics? Are you tired of having to login to Google to check how your site is performing? Would you rather have a funky tool on your desktop that gives you access to all your Google Analytics data, you are reading the right post.

Desktop Reporting have introduced a product called Polaris which does just this for you. If you have one website that you need to get info on, this product is completely free! Get Polaris here.