Archive for February, 2008
InCrawler blocked by Qualitynet!
Again, I was trying out the list of 24 recommended meta-search engines, when I found out one of them, InCrawler, is blocked by our ISP Qualitynet. Now for those of you who may not know, a meta-search engine is a search engine that gets its search results from other multiple search engines, and combine them [...]
Even Bill Gates Hates Facebook
Many people have said it before, but to come from someone who has spent $240 million dollars on it, and that someone be Bill Gates him self! Wall Street Journal writes that Bill Gates have quit using facebook following the enormous amount of friendship requests he receives every day, 8000 to be exact. Imagine how [...]
Al-Watan Site redirecting to Sport forums!
For a short time, Al-Watan news site was redirecting to their Sports forum site. I don’t think you will see it now, they seemed to have fixed it. I am just wondering, how did that happen? What mistake could cause main domain to redirect to subdomain?
Elections making it’s way to Google News!
I am pretty damn sure Google was promoting the Elections section for me few days back. However just now I login to see this: The elections section is not only showing, but at the second level and bringing Technology to the third! Not only I didn’t subscribe to this News section, but I am not [...]
It’s a big day in the history of the web
This tale of this day could really be told for decades to come. It could be a day that will change the web dramatically, with Yahoo Board of Directors setting today on one table to discuss and decide on the Microsoft $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo. Such an acquisition I believe has never happened [...]
NBK sudden credit card cancellation
Few days ago I got an email from one of the companies I deal with saying my credit card was declined. I reached home and tried again my NBK Master Card, it failed. Logging in to my NBK Online account I was not able to find my card there. But that’s OK I thought, NBK [...]
If you can’t beat them, buy them
This is literally what Microsoft did after more than a decade of failure to catch up with the quickly evolving web world. They are making the biggest bid in the technical world ever to acquire Google’s rival, Yahoo!. Shall such a deal go on, Microsoft would finally be #1 in the WWW customer base, and [...]