Alternate Ways to Search The Web

Traditional search engines are numerous and for a complete list visit the link at searchenginewatch.

Newer ways to search the web include clustering results and adding vital information to the search results.

I find the following three the most interesting:

1. Mooter

The retrieved results are filtered and grouped into visually arranged semantic clusters according to their context. I think its a great way to learn about any topic, viz here, Sigur Ros, a band out Of Iceland.

2.Clusty

Similar to mooter, it offers multiple search options like web, news, images, shopping, wikipedia, and my favorite-blogs.

But thats not it, it even lets you customize what you want to search for. And the results are always clustered. A great way to search and the way to the future.

3. Mozbot

Extracts results only in English from google, but adds information like definition, related words, search statistics, page thumbnails etc. Very handy, especially with the SEM community. Find out all the additions on the mozbot website.

Or search from 10Hz.

in your languages
in english

And for the way things are goings well, we probably will go from horizontal search(anything and everything) to vertical search(more specific) with local search becoming a part of our lives.

What do u think?

Google Evolving

1. Clustering Results

Using semantic technlogies(context matching), results are being split.

You can also check out mooter.com
and cluster.com

2. Suggesting internal links

3. Planning trips easy?

And not to forgot the Jagger Update that has been responsible for the sleepless nights at SEM firms.

Blogging Tools

Radio.Blog

Radio.blog is the first stand-alone player that lets you stream sound on your website.

You can create your favorite lists and can update them regularly. Let your friends know what you are listening to, or better still let them browse through in the right ambience.
Needs hosting space, so I am not sure that it works on blogger.


StatCounter

Its a free to use Web Analytics Software (whats that?).
In plain terms this software helps you keep a track of the visitors on the blog.

Installation is simple

Register on the website
Copy code to the blog
Thats it!

Its simple to setup and it sends you weekly briefs on who's visiting, which country they came from, what all pages they visited and how long they stayed. If you want details, you can visit the website and can view detailed reports on whats called " your project":
-Summary
-Popular Pages
-Entry Pages
-Exit Pages
-Came From
-Keyword Analysis
-Recent Keyword Activity
-Search Engine Wars
-Visitor Paths
-Visit Length
-Returning Visits
-Recent Pageload Activity
-Recent Visitor Activity
-Country/State/City/ISP
- Browser
-System Stats
-Lookup IP Address


Highly recommended!

The Consulting Bug

Top Ten Ways to Know You've Got the Consulting Bug

1. Can't stop using words that don't exist.
2. Worried that he who dies with the most frequent-flyer miles wins.
3. Use so much jargon in conversation, friends think you're speaking a
foreign language.
4. Constant urge to give advice on subjects you know nothing about.
5. Always-hyphenating-words-that-don't-need-to-be-hyphenated.
6. Keep seeing bullet points everywhere.
7. Can fit the thematic undercurrents of "War and Peace" into a two-by-two
matrix.
8. Tired of having a social life beyond work.
9. A two-page story in Business Week is all it takes to make you an expert.
10 Firmly believe that an objective viewpoint means more than any real work
experience

The Best Books On India

I asked one of my colleagues, a historian, to send me a list of books I could read about India.
This was her response:

"You requested some book titles for reading up on India. Here are some of the books on India that I enjoyed reading - both good and bad i.e. books that not only extol India but expose it's warts, seamy underside and all. I want you to get a balanced picture and not stars in your eyes! I would never admit our faults to a foreigner but one expects a fellow Indian to understand and love and be proud of his country and countrymen despite their faults and shortcomings.

1. India: A Wounded Civilisation - V.S. Naipaul (Extremely dense essay by an original novelist on what makes India what it is: chaotic, without a sense of historical continuity).
2. India: A Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul
3. An Area of Darkness - V.S. Naipaul (Opinionated and brilliant as most of Naipaul's writing, surely not a balanced portrait of India in the early 1960s).
4. No Full Stops in India - Mark Tully, BBC South Asia Correspondent
5. The Heart of India - Mark Tully
6. India in Slow Motion - Mark Tully, Gillian Wright
7. India Unbound - Gurcharan Das
8. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters - William Dalrymple
9. Holy Cow - Sara McDonald (Entertaining Journalistic Trash)
10. Karma Cola - Gita Mehta
11. Snakes and Ladders - Gita Mehta
12. In Search of the Cradle of Civilisation: India - Georg Feuerstein, David Frawley, Subash Kak
13. Of Gods, Sages and Kings - Subash Kak
14. Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence - Stephan Knapp
15. An Indian Affair - Archie Baron
16. India: From Midnight to Millenium - Shashi Tharoor

Enough for now. Let me know if you need more recommendations. Enjoy, knowledge is power! More power to you!"

Enjoy researching and reading.

The Indian Experience

This photo was clicked by one of the AIESEC trainees in Chandigarh. Check out the crazy "firangs" and their (mis)adventures.

Open Office 2.0

After a long public beta, OpenOffice.org 2.0, the free, open source office suite, is finally out with a final version.

Its available at OpenOffice.org as a bit torrent and CDRom's you can order.

Bit torrent and Open Source. I guess that's the way forward for the Internet (with reference to Web 2.0).

I am Loving It!

Outsourcing--The real story

This hilarious flash file has been put together by the guys at illwillpress.

Check out all the "Neurotically Yours" files here.

This is evil stuff ;)

RisingConcepts

Stumbled upon this website. It has shown a 3000% increase in traffic according to alexa rankings.

And why not when it has these three coolest new offerings(two still in beta).

Check out for yourself:

Planzo: "The Internet's most stylish online calendar and planner"

Friendster for Careers: "Job hook-ups, career development,
and good times with friends!"

And my favorite:

Frapper: "Where are your friends? See for yourself,
complete with Google(tm) map and community wall"

World Usability Day - 2005

The site lists a wealth of information on the "World Usability Day". As it is celebrated, awareness is being created by the UPA, UPA chapters, and allied organizations that are holding events, centred around the theme - "Making it easy - World Usability Day".

Also visit the About page to know more about why it is being celebrated.

Geekdom

Q: Hey, why ain't my site getting indexed by the crawlers?
A: It could be a case of SEVERE ARACHNOPHOBIA!

Why 10 Hz?

I have, after months of random postings on multiple blogs, decided to streamline (for lack of a better word) my findings on the Internet.

I chose "10 Hz" because at 10 Hz you dont hear it , but fell it and fear it. The human mind has been hardwired from ancient times to be scared of thunder and crashes of lightening.

No wonder sounds with deep bass get the adrenaline junkie going.

This page is for the Internet Junkie.

Here's two pages you'll love

What's an audiophile

When are you a classified Internet Junkie?

Post your confessions..