Web Business Platforms On The Cloud : An Engineering Perspective
Written by Harsh Jegadeesan on 12:48 PMMy talk in the Cloud Computing Symposium in ACM Compute 2009
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Google SearchWiki does a 'Process of Me'
Written by Harsh Jegadeesan on 3:02 PMGoogle launched Google SearchWiki a few hours ago, and boy am I excited! Have you ever been frustrated with the search results - from the world's best search engine? if yes, you would understand why. With SearchWiki, Google allows you to customize your search results, re-order results, add new entries even add notes to the results. With SearchWiki, Google just did a 'process of me', giving back control to users by letting them organize their search results for their own needs.
Though, Garett is not too elated with this offering and he even thinks spammers could feast on the 'add notes' feature. I have a reason to believe that SearchWiki would evolve. How could even Google, the world's best search engine, with its much guarded secret - its search algorithm - not use the wisdom of the crowds to improve its search results? you will surely hear more on SearchWiki in the days to come.
Chrome is interesting!, will I swtich?
Written by Harsh Jegadeesan on 8:40 AM
Here is my take on Google Chrome, it is "interesting", but will I shift? I am not too sure. Before I go ahead, I have to tell you one thing - I wrote this blog using Chrome.
- The installation was easy, all bookmarks and saved passwords were updated. But even other browsers do that - so no differentiator.
- The interface is clean and "no nonsense", like all Google properties. The speed & slickness which others find as"the differentiator" for this browser over its rivals did not seem to be differentiating for me, at least for the naked eye.
- Separate processes for tabs to make sure "rogue tabs don't kill your browser" is a good to have, but not quite "differentiating" for an average web user.
- Aw, I love the "Search History" feature, Google is the best in search and they are leveraging it well. The "New Window in Incogito Mode" saves me a "Ctrl+Shift+Del" to clear private data.
As an end-user I do not find real differentiators for Chrome, I love Firefox!. However, I must admit that I did switch to Gmail and Gtalk when I was an avid user of Y! mail and Messenger. There is something about Google, which makes you shift - the mesmerising effect of google!
For the moment, I am still on Firefox!
Update:
Alt-F-C or closing tabs don't work :(
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