Cuil – A New competetor to Google
September 5, 2008 at 2:57 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: awesome search engine, google competetor, really rocks
Cuil, a brand new search engine, launched recently, is pitched as the world’s latest, largest and fastest search engine. At the time of launch itself, Cuil claims to have 120 billion pages or three times the volume of Google Index.

Cuil has been founded by the husband-wife duo of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson. Originally called Cuill (Irish for knowledge), pronounced as cool, has now been named Cuil. Summary of Cuil’s features as claimed by Cuil: •
Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine • Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category • Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity • Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories Cuil does have some interesting feature to offer. A search for dogs, for example, will return category results for “water dogs,” “crossbreed”, “cocker spaniel” and so on. Some of these related terms do not include the term “dog”. Similarly by clicking on New York, one would get tabbed results for recommended refinements like New York Times, New York City, New York Yankees and so on. Cuil works to understand how words are related to get more relevant results and it tries to categorize and file a web page, even if the category name doesn’t appear on the site.

Will Cuil overtake Google? Though Cuil has the potential to compete with Google, in it’s present form, it lacks certain important features that we have become used to in Google, like the advanced search for one. In Google, you can create queries to search by file types, restrict your search to a particular website and stuff like that. Cuil lacks any kind of advance search at present. But, Cuil will probably come up with similar or even better features in the future. Anyway, you can expect some good competition in the coming days. Remember, it took Google quite some time to surpass Alta Vista and Yahoo in the search wars.
Google indexes its registry file-have a look at it
April 17, 2008 at 3:42 am | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: google, google inc, google registry file
Google indexes something on their own site which should not be indexed at the first moment. Out of just curiosity, I typed google.com/google to find out what happens and I saw a 404 – Page not found custom error page. But wait, the error page also showed some suggested URLs. The first one was something which should not be indexed. Some Google Registry file at google.com/google.reg.
The registry file had a few lines written specifically for Internet Explorer:
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Use Search Asst"="no" "Search Page"="http://www.google.com" "Search Bar"="http://www.google.com/ie" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL] ""="http://www.google.com/keyword/%s" "provider"="gogl" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search] "SearchAssistant"="http://www.google.com/ie"
Weird?
The second suggested URL made me learn a new link to the Official Google Blog. Its google.com/googleblog.
Anybody knows what the registry file means?
Nokia N82-seems to be good
April 14, 2008 at 4:39 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: nokia, Nokia N82, nokia new model
Nokia N95 is developing the idea in the form of continuing N73. New N82 – Sony Ericsson response, in particular its K850i. Symbian Smartphone platform with a powerful 5 Mp camera, and GPS and Wi-Fi
Gradually, Nokia is the leader in the arms race camera on the market. This is especially true masthead segment, which has long been considered a rule of good tone avtofokusny module for a 5 Mp. N95 debut, despite the unfortunate small time from the battery is out millions of copies, and also received an improved and updated continued in the form N95 8GB. Now the Finns are conceived and explosive mixture of cult N73 continuation and development of newly Nseries flagship.
N82 hit most positions Sony Ericsson, which last phone disappoint even loyal fans Cyber-shot. It K850i and is a direct competitor of the Finnish novelty, also have the same performance and the classic 5 Mp camera. When do we see the full Nokia smartphone with GPS, Wi-Fi and others. In fact, it is a simplified version of N95, which is literate, with pricing policy promises to be the undisputed hit sales.
Outwardly apparatus looks very good. Corpus completely recyclable, but the materials and assembly at the highest level. Chrome-plated front panel and the rear has a texture in the form of asymmetric scars. The buttons in the image and likeness of certain models of the Sony Ericsson (eg W880i) met narrow strips. Looks interesting, adds to the overall portrait of charisma. As far as color solutions, the N82, it has one – light titanium color, shortly nothing is not planned.
The dimensions and weight of the news medium, it is the best in the hand that once again proves the mass model status. Certain questions on first use should cause unusual keyboard, but it turned out the use of a long, has a week to this is not obraschaesh attention, but after two do forget. Otherwise, the elements of any claim, all in their seats. There is even a universal 3.5 mm audio out on top, so that together with the complete card to 2 GB of N82, and even produced a very good background-music (though complete headset demanding music lovers, we would be advised to replace).
Interface connector is not the most common – microUSB, fashion is the last time for Nokia, Motorola and some others. Old Goodwill miniUSB would be more by the way, although in the implementation of the Finns as the recall, he did not support charging cable, which can not be said about the new connector. Meals, by the way, traditionally separately – standard thin connector Nokia. Supported by “hot” replacement memory cards, there are stereo speakers. Last razneseny not too well, so do not expect the effect of excessive costs, all within the usual. Finally, there kachelka volume control button and the right nutrition from above.
Nokia N82 and mandated the navigational features of smartphone embedded GPS chip. Appendix Maps loads missing cartography through GPRS or Wi-Fi. It is possible and the installation of USB (MapLoader program), which is quite reasonable - Russia took 83.9 Mb, Ukraine 7.1 Mb, etc., so that the pump card “on air” in the absence of a free access point will be quite burdensome . The quality of the average, a separate Bluetooth receiver on the SiRF Star III shows better results. On a clear afternoon at one of Moscow Square smartphone only been able to catch the signal from five satellites, and in yards in a dense building and does often lost communication with air. However, being placed under a car windscreen apparatus confidently kept about four satellites, which would be sufficient to navigate. With regard to software, it is free, but the bonus opportunities like voice navigation is only available for a fee. Already, there are more than hundreds of maps. As we can see, fully in line N95.
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Please Help Keep Orkut Beautiful
April 10, 2008 at 10:50 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: orkut, orkut beautiful, please keep orkut clean, sex pron on orkut
The spam and sexually explicit material on Orkut just keeps spreading. It was before limited to just hateful communities but now it has turned into a full fledged porn site. There are fake profiles all over with luring names having 100 + scraps all asking if they can meet up or hook up. The albums is strewn will crude images of women and often with fakes of celebrities. Scrap books are full of forwards , ASCII arts or totally pointless scraps. Not to mention the number of links pointing to malware websites are posted. To say Orkut is a social networking website is soon going to turn into a misnomer. With such high levels of spam and fake profiles I feel Orkut should shut down for a couple of days and seriously think about imposing restriction to freely available material. Google, which has been so interested in blocking website containing malware and reporting phishing should look internally and see the dirt they are breeding.
The users of the subcontinent are also to be blamed in this. It is after all the users who encourage such activities. It is my earnest request people, Please flag [ use this button :
] such profiles and communities.. If you want to look at porn simply go to appropriate websites. Orkut is a social networking website where people come to connect with their friends. Small children often stumble upon such lewd content and start indulging in various activities after that which is very distracting at such an age.
The media is going crazy and so are political parties. I know that most of them are creating a huge hue and cry about trivial issues without most of them raising a much graver topic such as this, but it is time Google checked this issue before it goes out of hand. It certainly is going to be a huge embarrassment for them is this blows up. Some one has to take the first step and I wish that it is we users who take it. So from today please make a habit to mark all objectionable material and and discourage all such activities. ![]()
Help Keep Orkut Beautiful
PLEASE COPY THIS POST AND POST IT IN YOUR BLOG FOR THE AWARENESS TO THE PEOPLE PLEASE HELP TO KEEP ORKUT A CUTE PLACE FOR THE NEW COMERS.WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Grid internet technology-Internet will become 10000x-faster
April 9, 2008 at 3:19 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentWelcome to the future technologies
Welcome to the new world of fast internet. Yes now internet will become more faster by grid internet technologies. It’s new technique for internet data transfer. Fifty years of innovation have increased the raw speed of individual computers by a factor of around one million, yet they are still far too slow for many challenging scientific problems.
Carpenter said, ” The Grid will open up … storage and transaction power in the same way that the Web opened up content.” And just as the Internet connects various public and private networks, Cisco Systems’ Bob Aiken said, “you’re going to have multiple grids, multiple sets of middleware that people are going to choose from to satisfy their applications.” Now no need to user CD/DVD and pen drive. After grid technologies you can get upto 1GBPS and you can download movie in few minutes.
“Grid computing enables large-scale aggregation and integration of computing, storage, network and other information resources across organizational boundaries, but its use today is limited to experimental scientists analyzing large amounts of data,” the report said. “In much the same way the Internet began as an effort to share computing resources among academic researchers before spreading to businesses and then to consumers, Grid computing will eventually be used by enterprises. More important, research into Grid computing will lead to the creation of software that will solve critical problems companies now face in building distributed inter-enterprise applications.” If you want to move big data from one palce to other palce there is no need to user CD / DVD or pen drive .Just upload your data in minutes and then download from other place in minutes. past: Dial up internet Present: Broadband internet Future: Grid internet Amsterdam seemed a logical choice for the first Global Grid Forum because not only is it the world’s most densely cabled city, it was also home to the Internet Engineering Task Force’s first international gathering in 1993. The IETF has served as a model for many of the GGF’s activities: protocols, policy issues, and exchanging experiences. The Grid Forum, a U.S.-based organization combined with eGrid – the European Grid Forum, and Asian counterparts to create the Global Grid Forum (GGF) in November, 2000. The emergence of the Grid will change the entire perception the way people interact with each other online The Global Grid Forum organizers said grid communities in the United States and Europe will now run in synch. The Grid evolved from the early desire to connect supercomputers into ” met computers ” that could be remotely controlled. The word “grid” was borrowed from the electricity grid, to imply that any compatible device could be plugged in anywhere on the Grid and be guaranteed a certain level of resources, regardless of where those resources might come from.
But the real goal of the Grid is to work with the LHC in tracking down nature ’s most elusive particle, the Higgs boson. Predicted in theory but never yet found, it is supposed to be what gives matter mass. But even at optimum performance, The LHC will generate only a few thousand of the particles a year. Analysing the mountain of data is such a huge task that it will keep the Grid’s gargantuan capacity busy for years to come. Scientific communities at the conference discussed what the compatibility standards should be, and how extensive the protocols need to be. ” Earlier this year, we predicted that Web services will take longer to gain acceptance in inter-enterprise use than anticipated because of unresolved problems with reliability, security and business models,” said Eric Berg, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Technology Centre and editor-in-chief of the Forecast. ” Our latest finding is that the development of Grid computing architectures, protocols and middleware by the research community is likely to lead directly to solutions that will overcome these obstacles and allow Web services deployment to proceed. ” Massive memory: Samsung, the world’s top memory-chip maker, announced a $33 billion investment plan to add new production lines, aiming to more than treble its chip sales by 2012. The plan, the biggest single investment project since Samsung entered the semiconductor business in 1974, was set to widen the gap with its smaller rivals while adding capacity in its relatively weak non-memory-chip division. Samsung also said it was considering building new production facilities in the United States, although nothing was set. Memory-chip makers have huge capital spending requirements as production moves to finer circuitry technology that makes chips smaller and helps cut manufacturing costs. Analysts expect firm demand for memory chips over the coming years due to growing PC markets in emerging countries and booming sales of digital cameras and music players, which use flash memory chips.
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March 28, 2008 at 2:27 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentRegressive separation of the sexes?
February 25, 2008 at 4:57 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentA Shocking Report by TIMES NOW A must read article for all the enggneering student.
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A TIMES NOW spy cam surveys the canteen of an engineering college in Chennai, where boys’ and girls’ area of eating and even walking are strictly separated by bold labels and metal bars
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In 21st century India, if you thought we had done away with archaic ideas about men and women, thing again. TIMES NOW has found that certain colleges in Chennai have forced male and female students to keep out of each other’s way, so much so that students cannot even walk on the same roads. This is all ostensibly in the name of Tamil culture. The outskirts of Chennai are home to scores of engineering colleges where discipline it appears is an obsession – sometimes even bordering on the ridiculous. Some rules even bar students from talking to the opposite sex. TIMES NOW decided to take its cameras inside some of these campuses to expose the double standards. What we found was not only shocking, but disturbing: Metal barricades had been put up in buses to ensure that girls sat away from boys. While girls sat in the front rows, boys sat behind them. We also found exclusive dining areas for members of the two sexes. Interestingly the ‘Non-Veg’ section was synonymous with the ‘Gents only’ areas. Our first stop was at an engineering college around 30 kms away from Chennai. Here, we saw rows of boys and girls walking past us with not one student daring to glance at each other. As we continued our survey of the sprawling campus it was quite evident that even a casual chat with the opposite sex was objectionable. In case a student is ‘tempted’ – men who are simply called the ‘Squad’ – hired by college managements to enforce discipline – will make sure you steer away from it. TIMES NOW queries to students found these responses: Answer: We are not even supposed to look at them, and even they are not supposed to. They are not supposed to walk through this path which is meant only for boys. We can’t go to the path meant for girls. Grounded! TIMES NOW’s next stop was another engineering college located next door and the story there was no different. Question: Can’t you talk on campus? Answer: If anyone saw, you will be in danger. They will make you do an OD Question: What is an OD? Answer: OD means that we have to stand outside office for 15 days to a month In yet another college it seemed things were getting from bad to worse – here we even found staircases clearly labelled ‘Gents only’, and ‘Ladies only’. When we asked college authorities for an explanation, the Director said the rules were “only for for convenience”. “This is for the purpose of safety. We expect girls to be more careful, especially when they climb up or climb down. The kind of dress they wear – churidars and things – might get stamped on and they might trip,” explained Vel R S College of Management Director, Dr Koteeswaran. You may find this explanation bizzare, but for one teenageer in an engineering college, who had to forego a year for shaking hands with a girl, these are more than just an eccentric rule. He recalls the ‘crime’: “I just shook hands with a girl. It was her birthday and I wished her. A bus driver saw it and complained to the director. They harassed me by asking many questions. I got suspended for one and a half months. My attendance obviously suffered, and they dropped me for a year. They were harassing my parents. I have seen my mom cry only twice before. This was third time.” While such incidents are shocking – for the self proclaimed moral police it is a normal way of life that has to be preserved at all costs. Says Jeppiar, chairman of the Jeppiar Educational Trust, “This is Tamil culture. This is education and they should concentrate only on that. If we are not strict then at least 40 percent will stray. We allow them to talk during studies, discussions and all that, but not outside the classrooms, at bus stands and other places. We are strict.” What started off as a one-off case of imposing discipline in some colleges, has spread like wild fire across deemed universities in Chennai where rules are regressive and innocent students are at the receiving end. With no uniform codes binding them, deemed universities are on a spree making their own laws. The crux of the problem is that, though they have been criticised and many students have rebelled, no one with any real authority has ever said ‘enough is enough’. (By Dhanya Rajendran)
Question: Did you see the two girls who walked in front of us?
Here are some of the stringent rules in the book for these hapless students – talking to a person of the opposite sex could attract punishments with fines ranging from Rs 1000 to 1500, result in suspension or even a semester drop in some cases.
Tata Nano: The Paradox of Global Innovation
January 16, 2008 at 3:23 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentThe launch on January 10, 2008, of the US$2,500.00 Tata Nano “People’s Car” is a watershed moment in Indian industrial achievement, no less significant from India’s perspective than the 2004 launch of the EDUSAT educational services satellite.
It is the culmination of the efforts of India’s most powerful industrialists to compete for market opportunities on their home turf, opportunities that Western multinationals rushed to take advantage of as soon as India’s economy was forced open towards the end of the Clinton presidency—after a decade or more of steady and severe pressure from U.S. trade representatives.
Western companies have worked in concert with Indian trade and commerce regulations via joint ventures and, more recently, by building significant industrial capacity within India itself (Audi is building a series of cars in India, including a new SUV, and the Audi A4 will come soon, while Nokia is planning to make mobile phones for Asian markets from India as well).
The Tata Nano points to a significant harnessing of technology, manufacturing know-how, customer insight and, to borrow an old-fashioned term, “appropriate technology” (joints in the car aren’t welded, they’re held together with adhesives).
Now to the tricky bit. What is the impact of the so-called “People’s Car” on the thinking of environmentalists in the West? Or in India for that matter?
The standard response of environmentalists in India and the West alike has been to decry the future emissions impact of hundreds of thousands of new Tata Nano’s on India’s famously congested, potholed roads, which will for all intents and purposes make it more difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to more manageable levels (if the word “manageable” can be used given the stakes).
Journalist Hamish McRae of The Independent argued in an op-ed piece that [the Tata Nano] is a “great step forward for the burgeoning Indian middle class, bringing safe, affordable personal transport to families.” And: “…while more cars on the planet will mean more fuel consumed, this small, efficient vehicle represents a more sustainable environmental path than that chosen by the other great, growing economic power, China.”
A more sustainable environmental path than…China? From a serious environmentalist’s perspective, that’s like saying “a more sustainable directional path than the Titanic,” but I digress.
While noting that the West has a profound responsibility to reduce its per capita emissions (since emerging economies’ per capita emissions are much lower), as Terry Root, senior fellow at Stanford’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy (and a member of the IPCC focused on biodiversity), remarked in an interview, “A power plant in Beijing is [from the biosphere’s perspective] the same as a power plant in Boston.”
Which leads us to the inescapable fact that a Tata Nano in Chennai is, from the biosphere’s perspective, similar to a Toyota Corolla in Vancouver.
From an engineering perspective, however, it is also a significant achievement and a point of pride for many Indians. It is a design solution for the challenge of bringing safer transport to Indian families who might otherwise travel by less safe means (two-wheeled scooters or three-wheeled auto-rickshaws).
Contrary to Tata CEO Ratan Tata’s assertion that the Nano will ensure that the Indian family of four does not ride through city streets on a two-wheeled scooter, it is more likely the Nano and its ilk will in a majority of cases simply be added to the legions of motor scooters and other vehicles on Indian roads. The Nano will not replace two-wheeled scooters because Tata’s market research has surely indicated that not every family will be able to afford the jump from a motor scooter to their entry-level vehicle. India’s already crowded and chaotic streets will simply absorb a river of Nanos.
So the Tata Nano, or cars like it from competing automakers (a rush of competition is about to ensue), may go down in history as contributing to both a more rapid decline of the quality of life in India’s congested and polluted cities and an increase in emissions just as we’re learning how severe our climate change problem is and how little time remains to solve it
I feel like celebrating with the Nano’s engineers and designers for their success—and crying about the impact of growing vehicle ownership on the environment…in India or China or right here at home.
Such is the paradox of global innovation.
AR Rahman starts ups a music school in chennai
January 15, 2008 at 1:36 pm | In Uncategorized | 1 CommentThe school will nurture gifted musicians who could be part of an orchestra that he dreams of starting shortly
The real patriotism
January 15, 2008 at 12:16 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentHi guys i saw this video absolutely accidental on konkan banner and really got stretched up by the national anthem in this vedio.I stood up when i hear that voice.I even wanted you to do the same guys that is the minimul couretsy that a INDIAN can give to his motherland.Iam an indian really wanna share with you . Comment back on your feelings . watch this vedio its really worth of your time awesome.
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