Internet companies
Yahoo! Tech is closing
Is there anything left for Yahoo to close ? After shutting down Photos, Geocites, 360 and whatnot now they’re closing Yahoo Tech! too. A sad company Yahoo became.
Gmail is down! How to check if it is really down or its just your connection
As i’m writing this post Gmail is down. This is very annoying as both regular Gmail and the Google Apps version seems to be affected. I can’t check my email at all. At first i thought it is only my internet connection playing some weird games. But its not. Gmail is really down. Twitter is [...]
Yahoo just lost a friend
Yahoo Messenger is the IM software i use most often, not that i really like it but here everyone is using it. So if i want to talk to someone i have to use it. Two days ago it asked me if i want it to automatically update itself. I said why not, lets make [...]
Wolfram Alpha is impressive. Very impressive
I’ve finally had some time and tested the recently launched and much hyped Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Make no mistake, this is not a classic search engine. The “computational knowledge engine” phrase really has meaning. If you’re expecting search results similar to those of Google’s then you’re in the wrong place. But what Wolfram [...]
Google Trends forgets about Romania
Romania is a country in Central Europe with a population of 20 million people. Not many people from other parts of the world know where is it exactly. But its on the map and its a country. The country I live in. Not according to Google Trends. When checking today for something on Google Trends [...]
Yahoo closes Geocities this year
I learned that Yahoo plans to shut down Geocities later this year. This is a sad news. Geocities was the place were i hosted my first website back in the year 2000. At that time Geocities was one of the few free choices to host a website and it was a pioneer on the modern [...]
How a Google Data center looks like
I always wondered about how a Google Data center looks like, mainly from the inside I discovered today a very interesting video released by Google. This video explains in details how a data center is organized and how it works. This data center houses 45000 servers organized in 45 containers.
How much Google knows about you?
I’ve read just now an excellent post about the ways Google is gathering data about you, about us. And if you think about you came to realize that indeed the amount of data Google knows about you is scaring. Even for me, a Google fan. They know what you searched, what you bought, what sites [...]
Working@Google
A short video about how it is to work at Google:
Thoughts on the possible Microsoft – Yahoo deal
If will become a reality the 44 billion acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft will be the deal of the year or maybe the decade but it will certainly not improve Microsoft’s (neither Yahoo’s) position in the ongoing war with Google. Microsoft will loose a lot of money acquiring one of the internet’s dying pioneers. Yahoo [...]
Examples of why Yahoo is falling down
So here are two examples of why Yahoo is losing the battle with Google. If i had any Yahoo stocks, i would probably starting to sell them. Example 1: Everyday on my Yahoo email account i receive several emails from all kind of high ranking officials, widows of rich cocoa bussinesmans and many other so [...]
Google and Yahoo. Second quarter results and more.
Yesterday, as Google reported second quarter results everyone was shocked that Google didn’t topped the experts estimates. Still revenue growth was 28 percent compared to the same period of 2006. Wall Street reacted at once and Google shares started to fall. You see … this is what happens if you are Wall Street’s sweetheart A [...]
