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Saad’s Hot Picks – Jan 7, 2009

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Search Industry news
Trackbacks for Twitter – Dan Zarella has released a cool tool called tweetbacks which basically works like a blog’s trackback system. So if your post is mentioned in twitter by people, you can show it off in your blog. Installation of this tool is pretty simple – all you need is to copy [...]

Alexa Web Search is Shutting Down

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So the day has finally come, Amazon has decided to shut down their Alexa Web Search Service.
Here is the copy of the email that Alexa sent out do the developers (Source: TechCrunch):
Dear Alexa Developer,
The Alexa Web Search service will no longer be available to new customers as of November 26, 2008. Use of the [...]

FoxTab: 3D browsing in Firefox

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Have you ever heard of 3D Browsing? I’m sure you have! Many browser makers have tried to enter the web browser market with 3D capabilities in last 2 years. But most of them failed because they were all resource hungry and slow!
I use Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as my primary browsers. And Guess What? [...]

  • Tags: firefox
  • Posted on 6th October 2008

Happy 43rd Birthday to Danny Sullivan

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Today is the birthday of one of the most prominent blogger/journalist of the Search Industry – Danny Sullivan.
Danny has been a key figure in the search industry for over 12 years (He crossed a decade in year 2006). Thats really …. really…long….even long before Google Existed.
He has written numerous articles and blog posts keeping everyone [...]

  • Posted on 26th September 2008

MindMentor – Your first AI Psychologist

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When People are affected by emotional problems or issues they are often uncomfortable to talk to someone about it. At times they are even reluctant to see a psychologist. Now, they can confidentially consult online MindMentor, the first robot psychologist. And guess what, It will only cost them €4.95 for one hour session (or about [...]

  • Posted on 12th March 2008