Posted on November 5th, 2008 by dhirender
In a rather innovative move, Zoomtra has partnered with mapping service provider RouteGuru to offer users of its travel search engine, driving directions which include landmark based route instructions, route map and auto rickshaw fare finder service.
Currently, the service is available for Delhi /NCR, and is prompted via a pop-up when a user searches a [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by dhirender
With CD sales continuing to flounder, companies are continually looking for ways to boost physical media sales.
Aimed at users of the millions of cell phones and MP3 players with MicroSD slots, SanDisk has recently announced that it would be releasing a microSD card, SlotMusic, for phones, MP3 players, and computers that will come pre-loaded with [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by dhirender
Here’s one more reason to remove that photo of you on a drunken binge from your social networking profile. Your friends aren’t the only ones seeing it.
A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com of 3,169 hiring managers found 22% of them screened potential staff via social networking profiles, up from 11% in 2006, with an [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2008 by dhirender
Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives
says the Google Blog.
With Google News Archive Search, users would be search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time, along with a [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2008 by dhirender
Giving a new twist to music sales comes Popcuts – a music sales website that rewards early adopters, and encourages music lovers to, in a way, bet on the music and bands they think will become popular.
Popcuts charges users 99 cents per song. Thereafter, whenever someone else buys the same song, those who have already [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by dhirender
Borrowing a page from Lulu, comes Pothi.com, from Bangalore based Mudranik Technologies.
the site serves as an online self publishing platform that helps writers self publish their books in print without any upfront cost.
Authors can upload a soft copy of their book, which then gets listed in the online store at Pothi.com from where readers can [...]
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 by dhirender
Shaadi and Vodafone have come together to provide a first of its kind service in India according to this release. The matrimonial service ‘Shaadi.com on Vodafone‘ will enable Vodafone customers to access Shaadi.com’s matrimonial services on their mobile phones.
The service will allow Vodafone users to search and view profile details of other members without the [...]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by dhirender
To expand it’s avenues of interaction with consumers, Radio City, has launched a social networking site, Planetradiocity.com, aimed at people associated with music, be it musicians, artists or even music lovers.
The site will invite users to register with the site, create profiles, network with other members, form groups and interact with RJ’s of Radio City. [...]
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by dhirender
Adding on to their already considerable Google Trends, Google has launched Google Insights for Search, which provides more flexibility and functionality for advertisers and marketers to understand search behavior, throwing in some other features like a world heat map to graphically display search volume and regional interest.
Keywords are weighted such that their top volume day [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by dhirender
Cuil pronounced “cool,” the new search engine on the block, is in the news for quite a few reasons:
It’s already raised about $33 million in two rounds of funding
It’s founders and execs include 3 ex-Googlers
They claim to have a larger index size than any other search engine (”Cuil searches more pages on the Web than [...]
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