Oct 02
It was being touted as a Wikipedia Killer, but “Knol - a unit of knowledge” seems to have died a painful death so to say. No one uses knol, i didn’t ever remember whether the URL was google.com/knol or knol.google.com , They both redirect to the subdomain though.
Knol was supposed to be the first place one would go while searching for a particular topic, but i am unimpressed. I searched for computer graphics and got pages about women in the computer industry and computer buses , ports etc. If you cant find a topic in Knol, then knol isnt so great, is it ?
Wikipedia had welcomed the entry of Knol into the online knowledge sector, it had said the more the free content, the better. However it seems that Knol seriously lacks on content and content quality. Also the images on Knol did not have separate pages like Wikipedia and had no individual licensing information.
There was also criticism to the Knol from other quarters, people had said that Google might try to fudge rankings to ensure that Knol ranks higher up in the search rankings. Google however dismissed all such allegations.
Knol also scared the media industry, a lot of people in the industry said that Google is slowing switching over , first it was a data searching company, then it became a data organising company, and now its a data generation company seriously threatening a lot of media houses.
For the time being though it seems like knol isn’t used by all 
Jul 02
As anger mounted on the Iphones activation fiasco, Apple should see what the people are facing 
When you search for “My Iphone got activated” , Google corrects you , it tells you to search for “my Iphone not activated”
Jun 09
The whole ask.com experience is now changed, the site has been made more aesthetic. The searches are slow though. Its more like Yahoo’s one search, displaying results from blogs, wikipedia, image search etc. all on a single page. It also gives suggestions to narrow down your search or to expand it.
You can even skin your interface from pre-designed skins.
Dec 24
People search the darndest things , here are the search engine keywords used to reach our site this week and our take on those key phrases. Read for a nice time.
1. Orkut.com how to become members - Earlier while becoming a member you needed to be invited by someone , however thats no longer needed as Orkut has gone open to all , there is a Join Now link on the Orkut homepage , use that.
2. Airtel Balance Check - Hmmm , here its *123# for balance and *122# for validity.
3. Airtel stop receiving offer of the day - LOL , if you are prepaid i dont think there is anyway , but call your customer care and give them a piece of your mind , collective effort might achieve it.
4. database of Airtel postpaid customer list - Yeah you idiot telemarketer , you can get that for free , just tells you the depths people go to get numbers to call and sell their credit card or insurance.
5. opera mini airtel - Yes , if you have a mobile office connection on airtel , Opera mini would work , but if you only have airtel live , it wont.
6. smart brain logo - Just put my picture there ! 
7. leaving orkut addiction- Maybe we should start Orkut counselling , Â just delete your account and addiction would be gone .
Dec 19
Well people have been coming here searching for what all and what not. We analyse some search terms
1. Airtel Live 403 Error - Seems like the access denied or the forbidden error , to the person who searched this : You are receiving this as airtel has limited its net access to only the airtel live portal and some selected partner sites (like indiatimes wap , rediff wap and one or two more) . Many people claim to have a solution for using free internet off of airtel’s gprs service. We do NOT reccomend this as Airtel might find out and charge you and that wont be nice believe me.
2. Orkut Addiction - Absolutely the thing you should search for while coming here. Orkut addiction has reached new levels , people spend their free time reading and writing scraps on this so called social networking site. Good thing , India doesnt know about myspace yet or else thise generation will be literally going to the dogs.
3. Index Ignore command - Read the htaccess tutorial i had posted for more on this. This command can be used to refuse the directory index of your site’s folders.
4. Picasa Web Order Prints - We have absolutely no idea on this having never tried this , but we never reccomend web ordering , just goto your nearest market and order. Believe me face to face ordering is much better than online ordering which can sometimes go horribly wrong although it might be cheaper and convinient.
Lets make this search engine strings analysis a weekly feature !!!
