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Google’s internal subdomains.

The banana proves God’s existence. I think they’re serious.

Google Calendar screenshots.

So I have a blog is Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s blog. The comments on the first post pay homage to the father of the WWW. via LazyGeek

The Google Admin Console. Wonder what you can do if you have the password to this. More Google subdomains. Comments brinpage 10 Oct 2005 1:43 am: google/donoevil A 10 Oct 2005 2:59 am: anand, can I view this from a blog reader? where do I get the feed url? Smokey 10 Oct 2005 6:02 am: if u use google as userid and password it siplays apage which asks you to move to http://www.google.com/adsense/premium-login AlphaGeek 10 Oct 2005 5:58 pm: How do u manage u r time? You do all kinds of things Watching many movies,browsing extensively and also being sincere in u r work ! How is it Possible. Can u pls elucidate S Anand 12 Oct 2005 5:23 pm: Blogfeed available at http://rootnode.freestarthost.com/sanand.xml

Google Services. What’s that? Comments Scott Caplan 21 Sep 2005 8:25 pm: All I know is that when I typed in the URL my cache came suggested this: http://services.google.com/university/ Dhar 22 Sep 2005 12:19 pm: Even more interesting. They have something running on port 8882 . While connecting to port 8882 gives a blank page, you get something when you connect to http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller Dhar 22 Sep 2005 12:25 pm: More stuff 1, 2, 3 and more to be found by typing the query “site:services.google.com”

Flickr enhancements include 20 MB/month of uploads, 200 photos, and cheaper Flickr Pro accounts.

How Yahoo got its Mojo back.

Amazon enters blogging. Comments Navneet 10 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Whoa! Hee-uu-ge Geocities popup on page. Thought it was temp. Apparently not.. S Anand 10 Feb 2005 12:00 pm: Can’t seem to avoid it… Dhar 8 Mar 2005 8:08 am: Amazon India Center’s blog: i-5.blogspot.com S Anand 8 Mar 2005 8:24 am: That was a good one! Didn’t know corporate blogs were getting along in India.

I have no gmail invites left. Please wish Rajneesh, Joseph, Kannan, Mark, Mohamed and Naresh all the best with their accounts.

Amazon’s A9 search leverages what they’re good at – offering reviews of sites, related entries, and recent history.

The redesigned blogger – Dano. via lazy geek

A Nike ID story. An e-mail correspondence between Jonah and Nike about creating a personalised ID called “sweatshop”.

Huh? Corp. If you have money, and they have shares, buy! They’ve got the soundest business model you’ll see around. via Vijay

Altavista’s new features are pretty good. What I liked best, though, is their new interface. Especially the bar used to open the search result in a new window. Good to know that I rank 3rd on their search.

A taxonomy of bloggers by psychological profile.

Wow! Google News is completely revamped! via CNet

Yahoo India’s TV Guide. I’ve been waiting for this for sooooo long! Comments Som Patterkine 23 Sep 2002 12:00 pm: Hi. The Yahoo India TV Guide is really just a list of links. Not very good. The one that I have found better is http://www.zipazap.com This is perhaps one of the better TV Guides especially on accuracy. I looked up the promoters of Zipazap and they all seem to be solid TV professionals that explains the quality of info on this site. Bye Som

God has been talkative lately. via andersja

My Blogtree.

Yet another “googlebomb” on the name David Gallagher.

My weblog’s second birthday passed unnoticed. On 19th June, it turned two. (My website itself is nearing its 6th birthday.)

Bored. “When you have nothing better to do.”

Effective networking.

Things Mil and his girlfriend have argued about. I dread to think of my future.

Google answers questions.

A non-verbal dictionary.

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.

How good can a 256 byte webpage be? See the 256b.htm competition. I was particularly impressed by Bonz-Mandelbrot, Poi-Metaballs and Mados-Divo. 256b.com has more 256-byte stuff.

The author of CSS is boring is now making one CSS sheet a day.

The IIM-B website has changed.

740 digits of pi in a poem.

Tron killer app: what is it? (a trailer!)

I read my palm online.

Finally managed to put a decent photo of myself on my home page. (OK, “decent” is a matter of opinion.)

Surrealism.

kuro5hin: like slashdot, but not just techie.

News is free. Very good.

If it is to be believed, then coincidence design is the creepiest website I’ve ever visited.

Lots of people are wondering if I’m so jobless to have the time to update my site. Trust me, I work every weekend to make sure I have enough material for it.

DOS is dead. Is Altavista dying too?

The Times of India is going to make registration mandatory for its site. It’s free, but still, a pity.

The AC-130 Sounds like a nice plane.

The simple rules for RPGs.

Archive of the Web. And of Sep 11.

Prachi has a domain name of her own.

This First Lady really talks!

I had several minutes of fun using the Virtual Stapler.

Keep up with Yahoo’s buzz.

Agentland is a portal for online agents – somewhat like Apps.com

You can make a tip on the Web using Amazon’s honour system.

People ignore banners. So we have interstitials instead.

We can read the questions for which various ministries are answerable in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. What fun!

Comments people make in passing.

Google likes directory sites. Google likes Yahoo!. Google uses peer review. Google is good.

It’s finally happened. The Internet has grown to the point were a meta-search engine (a search engine to search among search engines) has come up. Lookoff.com.

The Kleinman report is another interesting (monthly) report on web happenings.

Curious that Google should return Microsoft’s home page when you search for “more evil than Satan himself”… When I tried this on 24th June 2000, it didn’t work. Maybe Google got smart. Or was it Microsoft? On 3rd July 2000, it worked again. Comments Anonymous 18 Dec 2006 3:11 am: I tried it, doesn’t work now Max 30 Mar 2009 6:26 pm: It’s been fixed, Microsoft (and also Bush) were pretty mad at Google.