I'm quite a fan of google and we all know how google innovates by releasing one brilliant product after the other. Why is it that google has to innovate?
In fact innovation is the only way to survive for google. Tell me, how long does it take you to stop using google and switch to another search engine? Less than ten seconds?
But it is quiet hard to switch from a microsoft product to an alternate product as it runs on your hardware and there are so many things involved in switching. So google has to keep you there. Build its brand value because most part of google's revenue comes from that 50 cents or so they make when you click on those ads which gets displayed along with the search results. So google gives you one product after the other. gmail, picasa, orkut, blogger, google docs and what not. Unlike microsoft's products, google's products run on the web and does not run on hardware. And almost all services are free and some of them can substitute microsoft products. So as more people use the products, google spreads its tentacles even more.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Why Google has to innovate?
Friday, March 28, 2008
URL Canonicalization
Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:
www.example.com
example.com/
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp
But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When a search engine “canonicalizes” a url, it tries to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set.
Read more from Matt Cutts http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/
Frank McCown on url canonicalization http://frankmccown.blogspot.com/2006/04/url-canonicalization.html
Friday, March 14, 2008
Simon's Cat in 'Let me in'
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors. Watch!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
MacBook Air is World's Thinnest Laptop.
The Apple MacBook Air is the world's thinnest notebook computer. It has about the width of a pencil at its narrowest point. The $2366 MacBook Air is just 2 cm deep, thin enough to fit inside an envelope. MacBook has a memory of 2GB with hard drive of 80GB and a battery life of about 5 hours.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Food Fight. Watch!
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch on Youtube.
For a breakdown of foodstuffs go to http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/foodfight/cheat.htm
For a breakdown of the battles portrayed in the film, go to http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/foodfight/index.htm
