Last week’s news of Google settling the adsense lawsuit for $90 million dollar, finally put to rest the dark cloud that was hanging over Google for quite some time. Click fraud is a known and abused strategy by which scammers can generate revenues while unscrupulous competitors can drain advertising funds from each other. The settlement, — Continue reading »
Windows live.com
📆 March 8, 2006
Microsoft’s nascent site, live.com, made yet another milestone today, announcing a new, polished search engine. The new search engine release comes only about a year after Microsoft’s much touted MSN search. MSN search was supposed to be the Google and Yahoo killer, but it was never able to live up to its hype. Windows Live, — Continue reading »
Web page images
📆 March 6, 2006
I don't why, but these days no matter what site you surf on, there's always a picture of someone doing something. Most of the time the picture doesn't even come close to describing what the page is pitching. For example, take a look at the image just above. It's a picture of two women having — Continue reading »
Google Page Creator
📆 February 28, 2006
We knew this was coming soon. Google recently released a new service, Google Page Creator, allowing users to create web pages and publish them on the Internet. What a surprise, the service is currently in beta. Does google have any products that are not in beta, other than their cash-cow search engine, that is? I — Continue reading »
Microsoft office live
📆 February 22, 2006
Lately Microsoft has been in a rush to catch up with the cadre of online service providers that offer a bevy of online services. Google is one notable (albeit unlikely) competitor. It seems that every day it releases a new product or a major enhancement to an existing product that probably makes Microsoft shudder a — Continue reading »
Dubai runs US ports
📆 February 19, 2006
Now that the Cheney's shooting incident has run its course in the media, attention seems to be focusing on the purchase of the British port operator by a Dubai company. The transaction means that the operation of six US sea ports would now be the responsibility of the new Dubai-based company. The specter of US — Continue reading »
Powerball lottery
📆 February 14, 2006
It's an old tired statement, but why do people begin to care when lottery hits the $100 million mark? Isn't a mere $10 million enough? There was a time when I used to religiously play the lotto. That was years ago. A few times I hit the minimum payouts of $2 and $3 dollars. I — Continue reading »
Northeast snow
📆 February 12, 2006
January's way above normal temperatures in the northeastern US made a mockery of winter, but February 12th was the day of reckoning. Snow started late Saturday night and kept pounding way into Sunday. We got about two feet of snow, as the picture of my deck shows. As strange as it sounds, shoveling is one — Continue reading »
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