Daily Archives: 05th Mar 2011

Blekko

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Over the past few weeks, I have experimented on the Internet and other web services. Although I use Duckduckgo as my default search engine (for nearly everything), I am interested to follow Blekko as the ultimate vertical search engine.

In the emerging broadband scenario, a new search from the default would be more than welcome; in day and age when new start ups spring up like fireflies, blekko seems to be there for a long haul.

Blekko Launches Link Widget and Embeddable Search Box (webpronews.com)
Blekko Now Offers ‘Blekkogear’ Publisher Tools: Badges, Widgets, And Toolbars, Oh My! (techcrunch.com)
Blekko Partners with Stack Overflow for Programming Queries (webpronews.com)
New Blekko Search Engine (flatchat.wordpress.com)
Blekko Offers New Linkroll Widget & More Publisher Tools (searchengineland.com)
Blekko – Sort Search Results with Slashes (freetech4teachers.com)

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Experimenting a bit more

I have just changed the site’s theme; I guess the previous one was becoming too overwhelming for my own senses.This theme is welcome in it’s approach for being minimalist and pleasing.

Changing Themes (earthdrifter.wordpress.com)

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Disappointing statistics

The methodology can always be disputed. India lags behind China in everything and not surprisingly in adoption to open source. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 still rules the roost and I strongly suspect that the Government of the day has not passed notifications to “upgrade their infrastructure”.

Interestingly, the statics from stat counter tell a different story. If you look carefully, the bars are segmented differently for Chrome (having multiple instances) whereas, “other browsers” are lumped in one category.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Version Market Share

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Interesting. Although I insist that I don’t agree to the opaque methodology being used here; there could be many variables linked to the actual usage statistics. Opera Mini rules the roost as far as mobile browsers are concerned. This is also a reflection of the broadband uptake; pathetic story.

This also set me thinking. Why don’t we have something similar in India? Why can’t we have any application developed locally to visualize data?