Google maps were at its best. Scanning satelite images, they provided us the best virtual maps ever made. Now Microsoft is not left behind.Microsoft unveils its Virtual Earth Product with a business touch to it. Microsoft had released a beta version of Virtual Earth , a web-based application that combines local search with maps and aerial [...]

           One of the most controversial project of Google is GBS or Google Book Search. Launched in early 2004, this project is still in its beta version. If we think Google was the first one to innovate the idea of digitalizing books for public domain, then we are worng. The first such project started in [...]

               "It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.". Knover aka Knowledge rover is a different idea altogether. A search engine coupled with a Social Network. When I say Social Network, its a Social Network of Popular people which is created by them. The developers have uploaded around 16000 profiles of famous people. So [...]

                "Welcome! GoodTree is the useful search/homepage that supports your causes with the money you generate just by clicking around the Internet.". This is what GoodTree is all about. Whenever we go through n number of webpages, knowingly/unknowingly we click the ad banners on the page. These clicks is how most of the organizations hosting [...]

                 Finding personal information on Web. I can find anyone I want. This is what Spock is into. They have designed a people search engine (aka like linkedin, which is almost a social network), which serves up a picture, address, occupation, interests & other information based on name you search for. There are many features [...]

                  I was outta happenings in webworld for almost couple of weeks. Last big news was Google’s acquisition of Youtube. Now again they have done it. Google has acquired JotSpot, a Palo Alto company that makes Web-site pages called wikis, for an undisclosed amount, according to separate posts today on both companies’ blogs.As we know, [...]

               Imagine an Organization with huge portfolios, huge database (for Knowledge sharing, Resource information, Policy Documents etc), which has to be constantly accessed for different information. When we say information is wealth, we also understand the importance of getting information in a short span of time. And in an enterprise, the source of information doesnt [...]

                                         Domino’s is well known for its marketing strategy rather than Pizzas :P. But this is one helluva site (For Fast foods) I came across in recent times. Yes, Dominos has launched it India-Specific Website with a bit of Indian Persona of the brand. The site is simple, but the content (Promotional Offer ) [...]

                          Now here is a service that is going to redefine the the rules of WEB 2.0  created by sites like Myspace, Flickr &  Youtube. When I say this I mean it (But again if it comes out of its never ending problems). Ning is coming up with a service that is offered by Web [...]

Internet Fraud is not new. We had incidents where hackers can open others bank account and transfer money, check the details etc. Most of them are due to a trace left by user on a system while browsing internet. So we had a rush of Internet Anonymizers in market, which would secure the network temporarily [...]

                          Want to keep keep track on whats happening in Finacial Bizz? This is the latest niche in the ever expanding Blogosphere. The unedited, democratic and raw data on Stocks, IPO’s and Exchanges, which imparts the knowledge to bring one upto date information on money.
 In an article on Economic times, Jim Wales (Founder of Wikipedia) [...]

 This is a Continuation of Online Video Advertising Analysis done by Rajiv some time back. According to Jupiter Research, online video advertising is a tiny segment of the overall market, drawing a scant $121 million in spending last year compared with $9.5 billion for all online media. Though only a  tenth of a percent of [...]

                 MSN’s new AJAX Based Image Search Engine must be the best to come from MicroSoft in recent past. Not that it is better than Google Image Search in terms of result relevancy. But in terms of Image result display or Interface in technical Terms, this is the best I have seen from the time I [...]

This is the best to come from John Battelle, one of the co-authors of the buzz WEB 2.0. His fantasies on Search Engines & Economy are well known. Here is a blog, that he has created for all Search Maniacs and fanatics (Like me) to come together and put stories related to Search Economy, Engines [...]

                 This had been there for sometime in blog space, but havent been analysed on a whole. When I read an article on Guardian, about Stephanie Klein, a former designer, with a bitter past, who is making her living by writing about her life, I made up my mind to analyse this niche of Confessional [...]