How many times have you clicked a link or followed a search engine to land on a page that has no information display and says, “the page cannot be displayed”? Many a times, huh? What do you do next? Do you move up the directory level? Or do you slice the URL and visit the webpage? Not many do that. The best practice that majority of the web surfers will follow is use the ‘back’ button and visit another website. Isn’t that what you do as well? Read more…
My company (Viscus Infotech) has grown insanely popular and everyone and their dog seem to be copy pasting stuff that we’ve either produced or have designed. Read more…
Google Searchology has become kind of an annual event which is used to showcase the search related products and enhancements the Internet giant has to offer. In the preceding two years, Google used it for showcasing Personalized search and Universal search enhancements. On May 12, 2009, the search giant organized the event to introduce three new features for its search:
- Refined search options
- Google Squared
- Rich Snippet
The guest speakers were:
- Udi Manber, VP, Engineering (Core Search)
- Patrick Riley, Software Engineer
- Scott Huffman, Engineering Director
- Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience
- Nandu Jankiram, Associate Product Manager
- Alex Komoroske, Associate Product Manager
- Kavi Goel, Product Manager
- John Taylor, Software Engineer
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What is an SEO astrologer, is she an SEO or an astrologer, or is she someone from Mars? Well, none of them. Infact, the title is more of related to closely we can understand user behavior to come up with some conclusions, even if they are about a 100% unpredictable domain; the “psyche of a voter”. Let me tell you what I am trying to do here. I am using a couple of web based tools to predict the web searchers interest, strictly in India and try to find out whether it’s the BJP/the congress or the ubiquitous “others” who win this race to power center. Read more…
A fortnight ago I got a mail from a site stating that I have registered on it long back but have not used its services since then. Thanks to my knack of reading the log files and examining the cookies, I was appalled to find that I had never been on this site before. After further investigations, I came across a scary fact. The site that has sent me the mail had all the details and information about me which I normally have on my profile on various social networking sites.
Now the situation was clear in front of me. There can be two possible reasons for it. Either these social networking sites are selling the user information or hackers have the keys to their databases. Though both of these reasons were born out of the fear and insecurity, but were quite impossible. I had a discussion with few of my friends who are part of the cyber world and then after a long discussion I came to conclusion that it was none other than me who did the foolish act. This website only exploited it. Read more…
