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Google PageRank to stem staph infections?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Rumours that Google PageRank is not useful anymore is about to take a new turn.
Just as Silicon Valley insiders are calling for a qualified scuttling of Google’s PageRank algorithm in sussing out Web page relevance, U.K. researchers are turning to Google’s golden formula to combat the spread of treatment-resistent infections in hospitals.
According to a report [...]

Wordpress 2.4 is cancelled – going directly to 2.5

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Did you hear ? Wordpress 2.4 is cancelled ! Or skipped actually
Welcome Wordpress 2.5 !!!
In light of the big changes happening in the codebase and admin section,
we’re going to push back the next release to be aimed for early March.

This is the timeframe when 2.5 was originally schedule for, so we’re
treating the originally planned [...]

Cool Hotmail – coolhotmail.com with personalized email addresses for India – check out the list

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Hey everyone,
Microsoft Hotmail has finally woken up to the land of Sabeer Bhatia (creator of hotmail) and Windows Live now offers personalized email addresses with an Indian ring to it.
Check out the list :

Whether you call Bombay your home, or Bangalore, get cool e-mail IDs [...]

Save Electricity by using black – Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Here’s an interesting article I found from ecoIron
Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift [...]

India decides to lift tsunami alert- Tsunami alert was sounded in Andaman & Nicobar – Marina beach wears deserted look

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

India decides to lift tsunami alert
Tsunami alert was sounded in Andaman & Nicobar -  Marina beach wears deserted look
The Marina beach in Chennai, one of the longest in the world, wore a deserted look this evening as police asked people who came there to leave, following the tsunami alert issued by the Centre.
Though [...]