Google Search Q&A

Google added a new search engine option to filter only Q&A sites.It is such a great feature from Google as the search company is not leaving a little space for competition.

The new feature will be really worthy if one is only looking for answers from Q&A sites.

Yahoo answers search not working

Yahoo answers[answers.yahoo.com] search service not working all the time.May be because of huge traffic[ddos??].But when you try again it seems working..

But the sad thing is other than showing any error message[try again..],at time it response no results/webpage is available.

Latest firefox 3.5.3 [slow ,problem loading page]

Hello

this is a surprise - the latest firefox (3.5.3) is behaving like never before and it feels like we're using dial up.Isn't it.

Firefox -Problem loading the page

Its so painful,i found some of the users switched to older version.( like Windows XP)

This is a work around to avoid page loading problem.

type about:config in your url field
then choose New -> Boolean
type network.dns.disablePrefetch and then click OK
choose true, click OK

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Also my jquery script stopped working in 3.5.3

this is the script

$("input[name='country'][type='checkbox'][checked='true']");

and i replaced it with

$("input[name='country'][@type='checkbox'][checked='true']");



ref: url


visit whatiss.com

WhatiSS is down

WhatiSS is down now.Hope it will be back soon.sorry for the down time..

What will be it?

Its everywhere the new search engine What.

Users don't need a name they just need results.But why still Whats.

There are a lot of What's out there may it the name or the technology.The new What is decision engine from Microsoft.And other What's like semantic,question answer etc.

But its not just a What in the end.Its a lot of What's in the end.

"Semantic search engine should understand the search query.If there is a ambiguity it will ask and clear it before executing query.The advantage is it will be more precise and the relevancy of getting targeted link is pretty high"

This is something that i wrote for a semantic search engine post.But don't call it a semantic search engine.It's a mistake.Call it something.

We cannot build a search engine on the top of one technology.

Well Google too not build on the top of one technology but its the page rank the core technology that ultimately changed the search landscape.

Well putting up some Whats is not the thing here.

It's not in Google

I am talking about search engines..the new re-branded Live search-Bing.

I think its hard to take on Google with a Bing.Even you offer something better than Google its hard to change people habits.

Bing is not trying to solve any any new problem.Well just like(But its not Google) is the exact description Bing have.Well a search engine that's not Google.

But the real thing- there is enough problem out there to solve.The world calls Google as the internet db.If its not in the Google its not in the internet.This need to change.If somebody can give different results (like It's not in Google) like real time search there will be hope.

If the battle between Bing and Google is so fierce then probably it will lead to the deadly collapse of one.

If any search engine want to succeed they want to identify the problems the Google users are facing.

Bing comes with a good GUI and with some more usability than Google.I am sure that Bing will succeed, but there will be a new player that will change the entire concept about search engine.

Ask with ads on Home page

Almost all search engines have a simple search interface and there is no room for advertisements for a simple GUI home page.The search engine home page is always free of ads.

But Ask.com comes up with ads on its home page.Well its a really tough decision.But the ads placement is good and doesn't interfere with the search interface.

It will be a really a great move if it pays off.I am wondering about the millions of dollars search engines gonna make if they put ads on home page.So obviously we will see it on almost all search engines.

Well the days are not so far.We will see almost all search engines putting ads on home page.













The ask.com also carries a question and answer search feature which is similar to whatiss.