April 2004 Archives

A9, Is it How Search Engine Is Done?

April 26, 2004 10:57 AM

A couple of weeks ago a new search engine went online. There wasn’t much fanfare and reaction was equally muted. It was a9.com and it’s amazon.com’s latest move to muscle in on the search engine industry.

A9.com is merely a shell around google’s index.

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Cablecos, What Are You Waiting For?

April 19, 2004 1:39 PM

Word has it that DSL is fast catching up to cable in terms of market penetration. Perhaps as early as a few months ago, estimates where that cable users trumped dsl users by almost 2 to 1. Now the gap has narrowed considerably thanks to marketing efforts, price breaks, and quality improvements undertaken by the telcos as of late.

The telcos have one other advantage over cable companies, communications.

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Taking the phish out of water

April 15, 2004 2:07 PM

It was bound to happen. Earthlink has announced their new anti-phishing product called ScamBlocker, and they are making it available to all for free.

Phishing is a technique used by hackers in which a spam sent to users contains links to fraudulent sites mimicking authentic sites such as ebay, paypal, or citibank. Statistically speaking, a percentage of the recipients would have accounts with those firms, and a sub-percentage of this group would fall for the con and submit their private data on the fake site.

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some people are never satisfied. take the microsoft crowd as an example. the buzz in the industry is that microsoft is losing its focus because their release cycles are now getting too long. their next version of their much anticipated windows, code named longhorn, has slipped several times to possibly 2006 or beyond and other products have also been hit with delays.

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spamidas touch

April 10, 2004 9:09 PM

when is spam a good thing. if you're the unfortunate victim of its assault (and who isn't these days?), you might be tempted to say: never. the spam fighters out there in cyberspace would like to remind you that they empathize with you and they are working hard to eliminate this parasite.

a particularly active and vigilante-style genre of these anti-spam folks are the so-called black-list operators.

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music to yahoo’s ears

April 7, 2004 9:50 PM

the latest good earnings news at yahoo and the announced 2 for 1 stock split is yet one more indication that the companies operating in the internet space have gained traction. it gives the kind of validation the internet sector deserves.

yahoo has been making a number of right moves, not the least of which has been diversification. perhaps with the emergence of google, it saw the writing on the wall that simply being a search engine is not enough (remember altavista?)
so today, yahoo is a multi-functional company and is reaping the benefits.

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