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Friday, June 05, 2009 3:49 PM

The unbearable truthiness of Google Suggest

Earlier today @rashmid sent me an image via Twitter. About Twitter: This is a grab from a simple Google Search page. Type in a term into the box and Google automatically tries to guess what you are looking for. Mostly based on content online and previous...
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Monday, May 11, 2009 4:30 PM

CSI Dwarka: What WAS Rahul Gandhi reading?

Merely moments ago my dear friend and colleague Samanth Subramaniam blogged about the reading habits of politicians , Indian and otherwise. His post is plenty fun to read. So please do. (You must understand that more web traffic to the livemint blogs...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:49 AM

Gmail goes offline - Why it matters...

The blogosphere is abuzz with a recent announcement on the Gmail blog. After some speculation, Google has finally come out with the fact that offline access to Gmail is being rolled out to English language users of the ubiquitous communication platform...
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Friday, January 23, 2009 2:36 PM

Obama still a "miserable failure", says Yahoo

Just one moment before you leave heated, right of centrist, liberal comments. I am not referring to his performance. Obama's been President just for a few days and I am sure we will get plenty of chances to make digs at his presidency in the days...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:17 PM

Gmail goes bling, Pageflakes goes cheap

Gmail , along with most Google products, was all about being minimal and quick. But today we logged into our email account only to find that Gmail was now offering ways of personalizing your account with themes. Yes colours, images, patterns and what...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:55 AM

Baba Ramdev: The Google Chrome connection

Have you guys noticed how despite the "global credit meltdown" , the Iceland economy falling to pieces and such maladies, geeks continue to spend with gay abandon? In complete deviation from perhaps every other sector on the face of the planet...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:49 PM

What does the Internet think of you?

So…yeah. Hi. My name is Krish Raghav, and I’ll be your friendly neighbourhood co-blogger on Play Things with Mr. Sidin. I fumbled around on the Internet a bit to see what I could say by way of an introduction (I’m terrible at those) - Then I figured I...
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Monday, July 28, 2008 5:05 PM

The next Google?

Yes. What a desperate-for-traffic headline that is? But tis true. The internets are ablaze with rumours of a new competitor Google that may finally not go bankrupt a few minutes after the press conference. This is what Webware has to say: There's...
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