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Google is down!

Yes.Though it sounds unbeliveable but it is true.Google is down currently.I cant open www.google.com currently.Not only that I am having trouble accesing Gmail as well.It is opening sometimes and sometimes it is giving an error. This is the first time that I have ever seen google going down! Edit:Everything seems to be working fine now [...]

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Google Base

Another new google subdomain has been found.It is base.google.com According to Tony Ruscoe “Google Base is Google’s latest project in an effort to organize the world’s information. It isn’t in Beta or Alpha yet. They are still developing it. I wasn’t able to get much information from my sources at Google, but I’ll tell you [...]

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MSN Kahuna Review

MSN Kahuna Review

It’s almost three months now since the announcement of Kahuna-the new interface for Msn/Hotmail.Finally I got an invite from Microsoft.With yahoo also announcing that they are going to update their interface and gmail’s continuous splurge in popularity Microsoft has some competition.Lets see how it fares.Here is a short graphical review of it(Click on the thumnails [...]

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Download.com using bots for Refferal spamming?

Yes.This is a shocker.Today when I updated my Anti-spam black list from b2evolution’s centralised list I was shocked to see download.com in the list!When I checked in b2evo’s official forum I found that download.com was reported by a min of 20 users for spamming!One of the forum members had received 4 hits from them in [...]

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Google to warn you before kicking you out!

Google is trying out a pilot program to alert site owners when they are removing their site for violating Google’s guidelines. JavaScript redirects are the first trial, but they have also sent a few emails about hidden text. This is targeted to sites that have good content, but may not be as savvy about what [...]

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Google Launches two new Katrina search tools

Google Launches two new Katrina search tools

Google has launched two new search features designed specifically for finding information about the hurricane’s aftermath more quickly. With the ongoing help of the American Red Cross, Microsoft, Yahoo and many other organizations,Google has indexed a large number of public Katrina databases, including KatrinaSafe.com. The new Katrina People Search helps people to search across all [...]

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