A Weird Soul

mind of an aquarian…

Is Rediff worth that much?

Its the time for Internet marketing….. after the success of Google’s Adsense and Adwords everybody seems to join the bandwagon. Overture is a live example of the same. The yahoo owned company has made its mark in the field of keyword based advertising.
Indian companies have also started following this model. Not too long ago, rediff [...]

Gmail - New Ad Format

The Contextual Ads from the right side of the Gmail is gone…… and what has stepped in is a weird link on the top. I just noticed the new format.
Its surprising to know that these are not solely Ads. It constitutes (Contextual) News and (Contextual) Ads. It just shows one link but a user can [...]

2 many GBs

Gmail announced:
1.) 2 GB Mail Box
2.) HTML Formatting
Acc. 2 Gmail, they would keep increasing the disk space I believe it is in response to Yahoo’s 1 GB mail boxes. BTW its not an April Fool’s Prank, you can check it yourself.
My a/c said 1147 MB about 15 minutes ago but now it [...]

Yahoo 360 and flickr

Haven’t been reading /. lately. Today came across this news thru some other site.
Yahoo is starting a social network + blog . Sounds cool!!
I hope now Orkut gets faster or……it will b a trouble for them.
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MSN Search - New and Improved

Read about New MSN search @ /. and then read its review on Abhi’s Blog.
I don’t agree with the review completely, even though I am a google fan.
So, I did a similar testing, but included Yahoo to the list with the keywords britney spears.
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Here is a tut for people who want to update their friend list as their friends update the blogs.
This tutorial is only for the people who use WP. This doesn’t mean that your friends have to use WP in order to update your friend list. I had searched a lot about it and have gone [...]

Gmail Trash

Haven’t written about Google or Gmail since a while now.
Here is something that is bugging me. Gmail’s Trash says “Note: Trashed messages more than 30 days old will be automatically deleted.”
but I have emails as old as 10/25/04 in my trash??? The Spam label aslo shows a similar message and keeps it word and [...]

Spamish Accident?

When I checked my email today, I found 8 emails from one email address. I do get spam, but its not that much generally.
All the headers are different. I logged onto the domain from where the emails were coming from: gold-solutions[dot]co[dot]uk (I don’t want to give them any link or publicity.)
And they had this message [...]

Something Fishy

Here is some data
Index size
* ~ 1998: ~ 25,000,000
* August 2000: 1,060,000,000
* January 2002: 2,073,000,000
* February 2003: 3,083,000,000
* September 2004: 4,285,000,000
* November 2004: 8,058,044,651 web pages, 880,000,000 images, 845,000,000 messages, 4,500 [...]

Yahoo Lowered Domain Names’ Price

Today I got an email from Yahoo!
Why not get a domain for your business, hobby, family, or anything else that interests you? For only $4.98* per year, for a limited time only, you’ll get your domain name as well as:
* 24×7 toll-free support - Get help if you have questions.
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