2002

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.

The original Google paper.

IP Telephony in India. At last.

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.

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.

Google fights googlebombing… or does it?

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.

World Gazetteer: a fantastic demographic and geographic database.

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?