Archive for August, 2009

Google tops in User Survey for Search Engine Satisfaction

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

While Bing might be claiming to get better click throughs on Search Ads, Google has again claimed the top spot in American Consumer Satisfaction Index.

In the quarterly rankings, conducted since 2000, all the major search engines/portals have improved their scores over time, with only Ask.com and AOL now below their highest historic rankings. (more…)

Examples of Corporate Social Media Strategies<

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Examples of Corporate Social Media Strategies

I recently spoke at a regional event organized to decipher social media marketing. The address dealth with variety of topics and touched various aspects of going social, ranging from how to get started, tracking tools, history, pros and cons and how to measure the impact.

I discussed some tactics to get your company better engaged with social media. To start with I have assembled this list of more than 35 companies who are experimenting with social media in a host of different ways. (more…)

Google Search Index Update: Caffeine

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Google has unveiled, of what is being perceived as a next major overhaul of their search engine indexing algorithm and named it Caffeine. Google has also providing a developer preview of the working variant of this new engine. Post and comments from Matt Cutts suggest that Google’s Caffeine update primarily deals with the way Google indexes, crawls and ranks the pages of websites.

“It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions,” says a joint post from engineers Matt Cutts and Sitaram Iyer. “Web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.” (more…)

Flats in Gurgaon Under Rs 35 Lacs

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Check out some of the hotttest Flats from reputed builders available in Gurgaon

Now, on paper when we compair the options available if price is the concern Tulip Residency seems like the best options to us. They are also not charging any club and parking charges bring the cost of ownership down to bare minimal. (more…)

Google takes another swipe at killing Microsoft Exchange

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Google is continuing its push to gain on Microsoft in the enterprise space. At a press conference today, Google announced a new plug-in that will sync Google’s enterprise versions of Gmail, contacts, and calendar with Microsoft’s Outlook. In the enterprise, Outlook is still king and not everyone is ready to switch just yet to browser-based email, calendars and contact management. So employees can continue to use Outlook if that is what they are comfortable with, and Google Apps will run on the backend. Google is claiming that its enterprise apps cost less than half of Microsoft Exchange. (more…)

Is Google Opening too many warfronts

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Personaly I admire Google for the quality and functionality of their applications. Whatever they do works and elevates the level of products in the arena. Most products Google has created have rounded the competition [example - emailing, feedreaders etc] (more…)

Love Aaj Kal Film Review

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

They told me to goto watch this movie and not campair it with Jab We Met. Expecting ‘Jab We Met’ or for that matter ‘Socha Na Tha’ were poems. Shahid wasn’t the star he is today when he did ‘Jab We Met’. Abhay Deol was vaguely known when Socha Na Tha came out. I went to watch these movies with little to no expectations and came back smiling on days gone by, connecting completely with the characters. I am a fan of Imtiaz Ali and his style of film-making. He has what it takes to take the TORCH of kindling the romance in air from Yash Raj Chopra [something Aditya Chopra, his scion has been unsuccessful at]. (more…)

US Air Force developing decision-making attack drones

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

US Air Force developing decision-making attack drones

US Air Force is readying an unmanned drone that could fly over a target and then make the decision whether or not to launch an attack, all without human intervention. These drones laced with Artificial Intelligence [AI] would take combat decisions and act within legal and policy constraints. Humans will monitor the execution and would have the authority and ability to overide the system. (more…)