Travel search segment has been creating all the vertical searches possible off late so bus train flight are all available on eticking travel portals. But what’s adding another layer above these are Travel meta search engines which recently went from flight to rail search and have now gone from rail to bus search.

 
 
 
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Google has added one more Indian Language to its localization options for its News and Blogger services. Apart from English, Tamil has now been officially added as a language to these services from Google and the third being Hindi, which was added back in May 2008.

After launching Weave 0.2, the synchronization plugin that enables data to be synchronized across multiple computers for Mozila’s Popular web browser Firefox, Mozilla Labs have now announced a new project where it wants us users to participate and contribute towards their goal of designing a next generation web-browser.

Manorama online the online division of Kerala based Malayala Manorama which is the largest selling regional newspaper in the whole of India has launched a matrimonial portal called M4marry.com which is an exclusive matrimony portal for Malayalees. We dig deeper on the need and potential of such a portal..

If you remember, WATBlog had come up with a few pointers for the Indian Government on how to effectively eye on every single online activity being carried out, on this soil, and also to track them down directly to the person responsible. It looks like the authorities are dead serious in their efforts to curb cyber terrorism, the way they deem fit. The police have already started moving in quite a few cities in the country. As Times of India reports, the cyber café owners in Amritsar have already started to issue identity cards to their users.

Owing to the immense popularity of the Games, hundreds of conglomerates have been looking forward to make a quick killing during the event. One very notable tie up, in this regard, is between CCTV International Networks Ltd (CCTV.com) and Adobe Systems Inc, in their efforts to deliver the Games’ coverage through the web. Since CCTV.com happens to own the online video rights to the Olympic Games for mainland China and Macau, it promises to deliver the coverages to millions of sports fans in that area through their “Olympic Network TV Station”, a next generation online TV station based on Adobe Flash and Flex technology.

99acres and Secondspace are two real estate listings site in their respective markets i.e. India and US. Secondspace caters to the ever growing trend of second homes and leisure retreats in the western markets. The company’s other sites include ResortScape.com and LandWatch.com.

According to the release 99acres and Secondspace have entered into an agreement to share their respective database of real estate listings on each others sites.

Intel is now eying the growing market of Web 2.0 companies over the World Wide Web with new start ups coming up every single day. Most of the web-start ups are resource hungry websites that process vast amount of data and have large number of users. These companies need a strong and powerful infrastructure to back the activity that goes on through the sites. Intel is apparently trying to cash in on this factor and is aiming to power the systems that run these sites.

Contextual advertising, or tagging work by means of specific algorithms written for the same. The system first scans the page which a visitor is viewing, for specific keywords or key phrases. Then, the relevant ads, depending on the keywords, are displayed on the same page, or in the form of pop up windows. Other forms of advertising include hyper linking the keyword itself. However, contextual linking is not limited to advertising only.

Do you remember the “Sar Utha ke Jiyo” pension plan campaign from HDFC? Well, it seems ICICI Prudential also plans to empower the aged with the same motto, with the help of an NGO named Dignity Foundation. As the Hindu Business Line reports, this joint initiative has resulted in the formations of a portal called DignitySecondCareers.org

Yesterday, we wrote about Scrabulous being pulled down from Facebook. The popular game on the social networking site was an online adaptation of the classic offline game. Seems that Hasbro, the company that owns the right to Scrabble in U.S. and Canada, had some problems with Scrabulous. They wanted their own version to be more popular, which, actually was doing pretty bad. Just to avoid some of the legal problems, the game Scrabulous waspulled down from Facebook. But again, it was just to avoid some legal problems. Now Scrabulous has returned as Wordscraper.

The Indian news vine seems to be full with the Indian government’s decision to keep a closer eye on the cyber cafes, thanks to recent terror attacks in the country. Already, a lot of cyber cafes have been asking for photo-id cards before you can go in & surf. Now come a few more regulations. In this post, we try to find a more approachable solution to problem that the authorities face, track every single cyber step of yours!

It seems as if Google wants to pay more attention to video annotations and enhance the overall experience for users on Youtube. On the YouTube blog, the company has announced that it has acquired Omnisio, a small California-based startup that’s focused on making online video more useful and collaborative.

In recent times, there has been a lot of development on the Global Positioning System (GPS) front. GPS units have not only reduced in size making them portable enough to carry around, but the prices have drastically reduced too. Most cell phones now come enabled with GPS units, allowing the user to get turn-by-turn directions to any place. This initiative by Microsoft will nothing but boost the same purpose.

Web18, the internet arm of TV18, part of the Network18 group has seen a rise in its revenues, with a 41% rise. The revenues rose to Rs. 13.1 crores from Rs. 9.3 crores year-on-year. While, the operating losses reported were Rs. 5.6 crores compared to Rs. 2.3 crores last year in the same quarter.