S Anand

news.google.com. Still in Beta, and a little unimpressive, but as with most things at Google, likely to become a de facto search engine.

I searched on Altavista after a long time (oh, for no other reason than the fact that Google said I could also try my searches on Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc.) and I was surprised how much the search results resembled Google’s.

The original Google paper.

IP Telephony in India. At last.

Powerful thoughts against digitization. And since these days I need an excuse to justify the amount of paper I’m using, this article helps ease my conscience.

Google fights googlebombing… or does it?

Yahoo! starts charging for autoforward facility. I’ve been used to its unavailability for quite a while, so it doesn’t bother me too much.

World Gazetteer: a fantastic demographic and geographic database.

Interesting read. A weblogger’s date read his weblog. Lesson to all webloggers: say nice thing about yourself.

This DNA computer seems to have done some good work.

The Hindutva org-chart. Worrying. Think about it after reading about terrorism.

Here’s a good reason for me not to advertise my website. Here’s a site on time travel anamolies in films, which is not accessible, thanks to Yahoo’s restrictions on data transfer. One listing on Metafilter probably killed the site. But then, the question probably is, is that a reason to hate Yahoo?

The Doomsday clock has been advanced by 2 minutes. It now reads 7 minutes from midnight. That’s the level is was during the cold war.

The green eyed girl on the cover of National Geographic has been found.

The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

AOL, and hence its 30 million subscribers, could move away from IE towards Mozilla. That’s big.

Spraying dots prevents theft. The range of application for the technology appears wide.

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

Read about the guy who hacked phones by whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone while watching the most intrusive ad format I’ve seen so far – animations floating around in the background. This is the first ad that forced me to click on it. Result: I’m going to avoid such sites. I still like Google’s concept: give ads only to those who ask for them – and keep them seperate.

Lots more ZX Spectrum emulators and games. Makes me nostalgic.