Published on November 1, 2005
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular Wikipedia said on Monday that entries from Wikipedia may soon be available in print format. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that lets anyone edit its entries.
According to him, priority is given to the readers in the developing world. In addition to print version, the content may also be recorded into CDs and DVDs so computer users without high-speed Internet in those countries could refer to the encyclopedia offline.
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Published on October 11, 2005
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Chris Pirillo, the famous TechTV Call For Help guy has launched Gada.be today. It’s a metasearch service that takes a query and runs it against sites like Google News, Technorati, Flickr, IceRocket, Amazon, Wikipedia, 43Things, etc. (up to 140 services currently. It doesn’t yet search NewsGator, Pubsub and Bloglines but works are being done to include them).
To speed up search, you don’t really have to launch the web site to load the page and key in the search query. Gada.be supports search by subdomain. For instance, to search for podcasting, you simply go to podcasting.gada.be.
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Is Flock the next browser? It seems to have generated many interests out there currently. True, our browsers haven’t changed much since Netscape told us what a browser should look like a decade ago. And I’m eager to see what Flock can offer.
Currently Flock is still not available for download. I don’t have a download link either. Anyone has one? If you are curious about how it will look like eventually, here are some screenshots posted on Flickr.
A Techdigger news.
Just 3 months after Spreadfirefox.com got hacked due to a flaw in XMLRPC library used by its Drupal contact management system, it was recently brought down again by hackers.
This time, it’s not Drupal nor the popular xmlrpc to be blamed, but TWiki, a popular wiki software that isn’t part of Spreadfirefox.
According to the email sent to the Spreadfirefox members, they have started to implement security procedures to patch their software (Drupal and PHP) to the latest version as soon as they are made available. They have overlooked installation of the TWiki software since it is not used by the main Spread Firefox site.
Read more at techdigger.com.
Webmasters, if Google PageRank and Alexa ranking matters a lot to you, check out Pagerankcheck.info.
Just key in the domain name and you will get the following information of your website:
# Google PageRank ranking
# Alex ranking
# Number of Google listings
# Number of MSN listings
# Number of Yahoo listings
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Published on October 3, 2005
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Barry wanted a special and original wedding proposal. Guess what he did? He approached Ask Jeeves to make a special arrangement for him.
When he asked her girlfriend, Yisha Tversky to search on her name, she saw the “Yisha, will you marry me?” message to display on Ask Jeeves. And while she was doing that, Barry kneeled behind her with the ring and flowers.
When it’s my turn, it would be more romantic, I promise! 
Continue reading ‘First Ever Wedding Proposal via Search Engine’
Wonder what’s the next site to be on the shopping list of Google or Microsoft? Pay attention to these terms: web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, ajax, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.
Don’t miss Emily Chang’s nice collection of such sites.
This finally has to come. Several big names in recording industry have filed copyright infringement suit case against Baidu, the biggest Chinese search engine. Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and their local subsidiaries, Cinepoly, Go East and Gold Label allege that the search service makes it easy for users to listen to and download illegal copies of their songs.
For those living outside of China, don’t be surprised to find that finding MP3 is surprisingly easy in China (so is finding warez). It’s a common thing to do in China by search engines to add in MP3 searching tool to attract users. Yisou, a Yahoo company also has music.yisou.com for easy MP3 searching and downloading.
The Baidu suitcase is sure a tip of the iceberg. To learn how easy it is to find MP3 (chinese songs in particular) with major chinese search engines, try to search for “è€?é¼ çˆ±å¤§ç±³”, a popular chinese song with the following sites.
Continue reading ‘Finding MP3s in China’
Published on September 13, 2005
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Since the beta testers have been politely asked to not blog or talk about it, I will only disclose what’s already been made public on the net.
In short, Rollyo lets you create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. And it uses Yahoo! search instead of Google.
Sign up for a beta account here.
Published on September 7, 2005
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Opera Software has revealed the new version of their community site.
Register for a free account and you’ll get a free blog and you can host your images for free, among other things.
Link: Opera Community.
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