Buzz, Twitter Message Appears in Google search!!

It took little long time to understand Google Buzz. Though it asks while posting a comment to publish in web or not I never thought it could appear in Google Search. But after publishing a post in Google Buzz I gave search for 'Weather Bangalore' surprisingly it was my comment was on the list. That too the latest result was mine!

My friend Shivu was discussing an hour ago about these public posting of the buzz. He was worried that anybody can follow anybody. It is obvious that we feel whetever we scrap there at buzz is personal or it could be available for those whom we have permitted as the mail itself is very very personal. But some application that could be accessed through our e-mail log in becomes public is really horrible!

If you have not seen this just browse this search page. If the latest comments are not available, give some hot keyword at present and search. Or change the setting as latest as it appears left of the result page. Its really good application untill it disturbs the personal matters of a person.

Now Google Search In Kannada

Long waiting is over! Google Lab has now came up with on screen Kannada Keyboard and enabled search option. This is the easiest of all Kannada Search. Similar search is also available in most of all Indian languages. No tutorial is required for this. Just use the mouse!



For more languages go to Google Lab

Now it is Bing Vs Google

Bing- if you wish to insult it you can expand it as ‘But, It’s Not Google’. But certainly it is not true. Bing is a new search tool from Microsoft which looks like next version of Google, but with some added features. While Google is taking over Microsoft’s monopoly with release of new tools, it is now Microsoft’s turn to shock Google and its supporters.

Bing is much like Google, that’s why I called it as next version of Google! There is a search box with all the options for specifying search for image, maps, shopping, videos, news etc. Difference could be felt once you enter some thing for search and hit search button.

Here in Bing, no need to click on the result link to see what is inside. Just point on the result link, a pop up balloon shows the first few lines of the content. You need not to leave the result page to see what is there in it.

Bing gives a number of options to get what you looking for. Like in Google, if you search for Katrina you get the options for image search for the celebrity along with the search result. Here in Bing if you search for name of the celebrity you will be given option to choose news, image, quotes, biography etc. Similarly if you search for a disease, you can later choose to go for causes, treatment, remedy, news.

Similar to Google, Bing also allows you to search images. In Bing you can customize the size of the thumbnail. Also, there is no need to go to next page to view more images. You feel like you are viewing image from your own system. Details like sources, pixel are hidden and will be shown in balloon when you point to it.

Unlike Google video search, you can preview the video in Bing search for few seconds by pointing cursor to the thumbnail. Again you need not leave the result page to preview video.

Bing is just a child. It lacks a lot of features that Google offers. But for a normal search use it is now preferable along with Google. Bing makes searching more easy.

Google SMS channels thrash MyToday?

MyToday and SMSGupshup are the ony players in the informative group SMS field. They offer SMS free daily on various topic and their revenue generated by putting oneliner ads at the bottom of such SMS. MyToday really lead the rally with 4 million subscribers and 11 millions subscriptions with a very simple website MyToday.com. Gupshup came second in the field and now the Internet giant Google also entered into SMS channels.

Google SMS Channels is a service that enables channels/groups on SMS. It's a free service that enables you to get premium content published by Google publishing partners, Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support for free. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You don't pay anything to send or receive messages using Google SMS Channels. When you post a message to your channel, all the members of your channel get the message forwarded for free.

The main difference is that the Google allows the user to create their own channel and put it forward for the subscribers and also you can configure your interested channels online visiting to Google SMS channels. Hence you don't need to spend even a single sms to configure the sms channels.

I'm using MyToday from last 2 years and the quality of the service is not so good as it was earlier. This could be due to infrastructure problem. Google SMS channels are very systematic and it took hardly 5 minute to register, verify, search and subscribe to the services. Hence to service in this race both MyToday and SMSgupshup might have to change their complete strategies. Let us wait and see.

Related articles: MyToday is no more reliable

Cuil, newest in search engine race, will survive?

.com is the newest in the search engine race. It was released on July 28, 2008. is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power. Currently it has 124,426,951,803 web pages in it which is the highest number that is there in any search engine. Though it sometimes fail to search sites which google, yahoo or msn does.

Features of Cuil as they are told in Cuil site:

1. “Explore By Category” with a list of subjects related to your search. If you roll-over a category, it will open and show refinements related to your search. If you click on one, Cuil will direct you to this additional information. Comment: Yahoo introduced more friendly solution Glue Page search which shows news about the query, blog search by google also and you can also switch between the classic search.
   
2. Cuil will show you “Tabs” that suggest ways to clarify your search. For example, if you search for “Jaguar,” there are a number of things you could be searching for, like Jaguar cars, Jaguar cats. Comment: Google shows the same suggestion to clarify in more easy way at the top of the search, without the tabs
   
3. When you type a query, sometimes you'll see a search suggestion with an icon representing a website. Comment: Most of all the search engines have introduced this search suggestion.

Present and future: According to Alexa Cuil had 0.2% of worldwide internet users in late July 2008 and by September 12, 2008, it had dropped to 0.02%. Traffic ranking is also fluctuating; it was ranked as the 5,340th site by traffic in Sep 2008, by October dropped to 21,960, now it is 13,210th site by traffic as on 20 Feb 2009. In India it is 9,205th site by traffic. But the three months global internet users trend to Cuil is down by 53%. So now the question is will it survive in google dominated search engine world?

How to search Kannada in Google?

I always keep watching what my readers want and what they are looking for while entering the keyword in google search, why they land to my site. If my blog does not have an answer for them I try to answer to them. This is such a article.
Recently a visitor hit my blog looking for "how to search Kannada in google", "how to use google Kannada search". Here is a answer:
Go to google.co.in. Then click on Kannada which is given in the list of languages available, or directly go to Google Kannada. Then type what you are looking for in English. For example if you are looking for ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ just type 'uttara kannada jille' in the search box and it will show the options in Kannada as soon as you type. See the snap shot. Select the option if that is correct and hit search. If you don't get the word what exactly you want, you can type in the google transliterate and copy the Kannada word and paste in the search box. I don't think you never find it necessary to go for this. Once you get the word in search box, you are done. Pages matching with the Kannada words will be listed in the search result.

Long waiting is over! Google Lab has now came up with on screen Kannada Keyboard and enabled search option. This is the easiest of all Kannada Search. Similar search is also available in most of all Indian languages. No tutorial is required for this. Just use the mouse!

Human Error Caused Google warning "This site may harm your computer"

Saturday, I was using Google search, suddenly a search result started showing every site "This site may harm your computer". I was shocked. Then repeated search with the name of some reliable sites, again same message. Then I typed Google in query box and hit search. Astonished to see the result. It was too "This site may harm your computer". I thought something happened to my computer. I took a snapshot of the result page and turned off the computer. After sometime when I again logged in into Google the error was not there. It comfirmed it was some error caused by Google. However it disturbed me for a while. I came to know about the error next day in news paper reports. Here is the snapshot of the page. It could be a rare snapshot. Click on image to view it clearly.
Google explained it "Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.
We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file."

Bangalore call girls' e-business; Who can remind our police it is not legal in India?

No need to keep safe search off in your search engine. Type keyword and just click on search. A number of call girls' ( to tell in respected language escorting girls') websites comes in top of the results. Not one, not two, even not three, a number of sites would be listed. Why they comes when if safe search is on? They are business sites. What does a safe search do with business sites?
Reminding you, prostitution in India is still illegal. Still today you can read news in crime news section of local news papers about police raid on prostitution centers and the list of the prostitutes arrested (every time name changed). But our police are able to control online marketing of these call girls? By looking at the rates they have published on their sites I don't think our police can take action against these sites or these agencies. VIP section also there. How can they take action against some business which has VIPs as clients?

Let us come to content of these sites. What would a local bakery website could give details in its site? A contact number? It is there in these sites too. The name of the person? It is also there- some sites gives a male contact names like Raj, Bob... where some sites gives female name like Jenna, Malati, Lata, Aditi... So what else a customer needs? Price list? OK it is also there- silver, gold, platinum, diamond different section, different prices- 10000 Rs to 30000 Rs. Terms and conditions? How could they forget? Price valid for two hours, service depends on availability, tell two hours before if hotel rooms also needed, don't discuss price with the service girl.

When it was searched by using google web search I could get a number of sites, but with google search for Indian pages some sites are disappeared. That means some are not Indian sites. So leave them, anybody can register any domain name. But it also reveals some sites are Indian, where sex for money is not legal.
One of this site has server located in London, and registered through godaddy- a domain registering service. Another Indian site has server located in New York, though it is listed under Indian sites, the reason could be that is registered by Indian. Another site has server in Plano, USA. Interesting thing is that a website is registered by a person addressed in Delhi. Registrant address details is given in a snapshot.

If China could ban on some sites in it territory, why Indian government won't?

You may ask why I have not given links to those sites, not even links in photos? It is called ethics of a blogger. Answer is I'm not advertising those people here. So you don't find any names or phone number here. You get bigger picture by clicking on the pictures.

Browsers to challenge search engines?

What is the relation between browsers and search engines? How could browser take over search engines? You may think I'm making fool. But if you carefully observe the developing trend of the browsers it seems to do this job early. Just look at this picture: you can see how the trend has changed.
Little ago I was depending on google (my favourite search engine) for everything I browsed. To go to YouTube or simply to yahoomail I was typing the query as YouTube or yahoomail in search box. It was the easier way I had to enter into any sites. But now? I use search engines only for those queries on which I would like to know the presence of more than a website or simply when I want to do some research on some topic.
Now, if I need to browse Indian Railway, I simply type India in URL tab, it generates some option which consists of "...India...". Select the site I'm looking for and just hit enter. I am done. This is now available on most of all the latest versions of browser software including Mozilla, chrome. Ultimately it reduced about 50% of my search engine usage. That means it simply reduced the hit on search engines.
This is what Mozilla FireFox people defines about this feature: "The new FireFox 3 location bar learns as you use it—it’s so highly evolved that we like to call it the “Awesome Bar”. Over time, it adapts to your preferences and offers better fitting matches. Type in a term and the auto complete function includes possible matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. For example, you could enter the tag: “investments” to find “www.fool.com”. Matched terms are highlighted, making the list of results easy to scan." It claims it will show the matching from browsing history, but chrome shows the matching sites even never visited. But days are not far away that it shows matching that represents your taste by scanning whole www.
If you look at search engine history it always had a rapid change. I strongly believe this new feature of the browsers could be a challenge for search engines.

Google Transliterate in Kannada: Search, Translitarate and Blog in Kannada

Now you can type whatever you want, in English and you can get it in Kannada fonts using Google translitaration:

http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/Kannada

You can toggle between Kannada and English very easily by using Ctrl + g. It is easier than any other Kannada software. But you should have internet connection for this. If you typed Kannada using Nudi, Baraha or like tools, typing in Google translates will be much easier job. You can type in Kannada without the knowledge of any such software. What all you need is internet connection, knowledge of keyboard and Kannada fonts to see whether it is correct. Enjoy typing in Kannada.

You can also type using on screen Kannada keyboard. Type and select letter you typed and place the cursor over it. You will get the options and the last option will be Edit. Select it. Then in edit tool bar click on "show keyboard."

You can also access this page by going to www.google.co.in and clicking on the “Language Tools” menu option to the right of the search box

Google also has its other products in Kannada.

Blog: http://blogger.com/indic/kn

Search: http://www.google.co.in/kn

For other Indian Languages refer: Google press release: http://www.google.co.in/press/pressrel/20080505_googletranslate_hindi.html

Remember, it is only a transliteration tool. You can not translate from English or any other language to Kannada. 

Also Read: No Google translate for Kannada

Long waiting is over! Google Lab has now came up with on screen Kannada Keyboard and enabled search option. This is the easiest of all Kannada Search. Similar search is also available in most of all Indian languages. No tutorial is required for this. Just in the use of mouse! Read this article.