Can Microsoft go big with bing?

bing Microsoft’s most anticipated new search engine Bing (earlier known as the Kumo) is now up and running in most of the countries replacing Windows Live Search. Bing also known as the decision engine has reached 6% market share within hours of launch. With Google having the most of the market share for searches across the world and having received mixed reviews after the launch will this new search engine can turn the tables for Microsoft?

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June 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Change timestamp attribute of any file

file-timestamp Every file in your computer has got attributes like file creation, modify and last access timestamp. These attributes cannot be changed unless you write a program or use a software to do it. eXpress TimeStamp Toucher (XTST) is a freeware tool which can change the timestamp attributes of files or group files with just by a click.

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June 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Twitter has become spammer’s harvesting field

twitter  spam threat Spammers have always been finding new ways to harvest email ids from various places from internet including forums, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc to flood peoples inboxes with spams and viruses. Twitter, the micro-blogging giant has now become the spammer’s heaven to extract email ids of twitter users. The recently implemented Twitter Search has become the potentially exploit allowing spammers the get user’s email ids in masses.

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May 18th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The great Google collapse

google error How many of us can imagine a day without Google ? Web users have already given a taste of life without Google last night as the Internet Search Engine giant experienced some serious technical problems which took them out of service for couple of hours. Lot of bloggers have already dubbed this incident as ‘Great Google Failure 2009’, ‘GoogleFail’, 5/14 etc. Google experienced a similar failure sometime back in February which was popularly mocked as Gfail. Popular Google services including Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google News either performed sluggishly or unavailable to users from Europe and US affecting millions.

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May 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Refine your search with Google Wonder Wheel

blogging-wonder-wheel Google has unveiled new Aussie-developed search technology that makes it easier to find answers to queries when users are not sure about what they are looking for. The new “Wonder Wheel” option has been included in the results page with the search options link. This new wonder wheel allows user to view forums, video and review related to the search or displaying pages updated in the last 24 hours, week or later. The new Google search options were officially announced at the at the Searchology event on 12th of May.

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May 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment