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Archive for June, 2009

It’s Quiet Down Here. But Announcement Coming Through…

June 30, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Uncategorized

For the past couple of weeks, its been torrid to say the least. So you’ve not seen much action down here. But rest assure, I’ll get back to action soon enough. Saying that, I’ve couple of things to say before I wrap up this pithy note.
1. Some sort of announcement is due from my side; [...]

Where Can Bing Hurt The Most For Google?

June 22, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Survey/Analysis, Tech 2.0

It’s been more than 3 weeks, that Microsoft’s decision search engine, Bing got released. From my side, I’d my share of fun with Bing as well vis-a-vis Google. I also did a sort of exercise of using less of Google and more of Bing.
But to be very fair, its sort of cognitive that I [...]

Will Real-Time Search Like “Collecta” And “CrowdEye” Survive Against Big Players?

June 19, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Sometime back, two new entrants joined the race for real-time search derby competition – CrowdEye and Collecta including previous contenders like Topsy, OneRiot, Tweetmeme and Scoopler, not to mention Twitter Search and Friendfeed Search (though not so popular amongst the ordinary searchers). Then there’s Facebook testing an upgraded internal real-time search and Google too has [...]

Facebook Search Coming Soon- Told You, Its Very Important!

June 17, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Uncategorized

Couple of months back, I wrote a post about “Can social networking sites survive without Search“. There I mentioned that if future social sites can survive without evolved search feature integrated within it?
Fast forward now, Facebook revealed today that they are testing new versions of Facebook Search with a small group who will be able [...]

My Updated Facebook Vanity URL

June 13, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts

Sometime back, Facebook came up with this neat idea to make any profile look more spreadable by means of vanity url. Today is the day when the whole world is waiting to change their profile name from just uninteresting number to something like facebook.com/username.
As I write this, its just 5 4 3 2 1 0 [...]

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