Category Archives: Internet

Obama, H1 and Search engines

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A very significant traffic from search engines to my site is generated by the query “Obama + H1“. It is due to this post. On Bing and Google this query puts my blog as the #1 result but Yahoo doesn’t even show it on the first 5 pages (I didn’t look further). But for “Obama + H1B”, Yahoo manages to pull me into the third place.

While I am talking about search engines I might as well say that I am beginning to like Bing. The results are mostly spot-on (and getting better) and the daily images turns out to be a better idea than I thought it was. I knew a few people who made Bing their homepage just for the images. Well I know that the search page is not supposed to be the destination and should be as simple as possible but hey, if it manages to pull in people, then why not ? But I don’t know how the background image works out for low bandwidth users. For Google fans and power users I suggest trying Bing for 10 days without prejudice. I was not initially sold on the new branding but I made Bing my home page and you know what, I am liking it now.How it is going to turn out, we need to wait and see.

You might also want to do a blind search. And some old news in case you haven’t seen it yet, pretty impressive.

Joel Spolsky in Seattle

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Here are some pictures which I took when Joel Spolsky came to Seattle as part of his FogBugz Tour. He has written about the presentation in this blog entry.

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It was a great presentation by Spolsky, who with his characteristic humor entertained the audience with lots of pokes at Microsoft. The presentation was well received by the 200 odd people who gathered. The croissant was tasty too :D .

Internet Cafes to be Monitored

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This is stupid.

Mr. Vijay Mukhi is intelligent enough to realize that terrorists wont be using their home machines, but does he think that they dont have an alternative ? Like a wi-fi hot spot ? Or tapping into somebody else’s connection ? Or just crack the monitoring software ?

“The question we need to ask ourselves is whether a breach of privacy is more important or the security of the nation. I do not think the above question needs an answer,” said Mukhi.

Mukhi won’t be so enthusiastic if his personal computer is monitored too.

“The police needs to install programs that will capture every key stroke at regular interval screen shots, which will be sent back to a server that will log all the data.

The police can then keep track of all communication between terrorists no matter, which part of the world they operate from.This is the only way to patrol the net and this is how the police informer is going to look in the e-age,” added Mukhi.

I just cringe.