Archive for August, 2007
Amazon losing it!
I spoke before about how I am starting to feel Amazon are overlooking their customers and the quality of customer support is deteriorating. They have not resolved or even replied to my last call on the previously reported problem at all. Their last reply was from someone who did not read, or does not want [...]
Gmail false-positive spam filter ratio increasing?
I don’t know about you but I just found 4 out of 7 emails in my Gmail Spam folder as false-positive legitimate emails, 2 of them from trusted persons in my contact list that I receive emails form regularly! This funny kind of behavior used to happen with Hotmail but now it seems to have [...]
Carrefour selling illegal DVD copies in Kuwait?
So I was shopping in Carrefour in Avenues with the family and I saw 300 the movie. I bought the original copy from there, like a good American … arr I mean Kuwaiti. Taking it home, opening it when there is no one else at home, excited to play it in the home theatre and [...]
The NoFollow Effect
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index” (Wikipedia)
So much explains it self. The attribute is part of Google’s efforts to fight blog comment spam which was implemented back in 2005. Ever since then many blog [...]
Blu-Ray X HD DVD Format War Erupts more
It was really sad for the whole world when technology took two different paths with HD DVD and Blu-Ray technology. Each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. The two tried to set down before and reach a resolution, but NO. They agreed on No Deal terms. It was too difficult to reach agreement the two [...]
Google Sky is finally there
Since Google Mars maps and moon one came out, and as Google had already been in collaboration with NASA, it was no wonder it was only a matter of time and the Google Earth will not be a valid name anymore. Google Earth already launches with top view of earth. And while Microsoft is still [...]
Google tests new type of ads?
I’ve noticed this today on Q8Ba7th site. Google Sponsored Ads are showing extra links at the bottom. But what are they? I thought first I have screwed up somewhere but figured no. This seems like new type of ads by Google with extra links at bottom. You click on one of the links, say Photo [...]