A web designer sees girl of his dream on a subway train but loses her in the crowd. Later creates a website with her sketch to track her down. Whats astonishing is that he does find her and that too in 48 hours

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Former employees of Google, Anna Patterson and a few others have started a search engine that they claim is the “world’s biggest search engine”. They base this claim on the number of web sites that their database indexes, which is 120 billion. Google says it goes through more than 1 trillion pages but doesn’t index them all.

Cuil (pronounced cool) claims to use a websites content and relevancy to rank it in the search results as compared to Google’s PageRank technique. PageRank sees how many sites link to that particular site as well as the importance and popularity of the sites linking.

I have always been a Google fan but I think I like Cuil’s front page design and also the way it displays the search result. Instead of just listing the links with their descriptions, Cuil positions them in columns and really makes them look interesting. Its definitely worth a look! or maybe more, but we’ll have to see if this can actually get any share in the search market or will it fade away like other wannabe rivals.

In my opinion it will manage to get a following but Google has already penetrated our subconscious mind. So if Cuil wants to get a share, it’ll have to wait atleast half a generation!

Google launched its own version of Second Life called Lively. Second Life is an internet based multiplayer game/world where people can actually live a second life having their own property, clothes, vehicles and what not. Lively is probably Google’’s reply to Second Life which allows you to ”create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design”. It probably felt left out in this department after making its mark in every other online market.

What we now need to see is if this will turn out to be as popular as Second Life which had people buying virtual property and actually getting rich! Second Life did it once, can Google recreate the success?

Yesterday there was a suicide bomb attack in Islamabad near the Lal Masjid after the first anniversary gathering. The explosion took place after the people had left but the majority of the victims ended up being the local police. Who is responsible for this? The extremists? A significant amount of people hold Musharraf responsible for the bombings, directly or indirectly since he was responsible for the opeation on the mosque last year (Operation Silence). We haven”t had a moment of peace since then. Making the US happy or mere short sightedness?

Where does one go to get justice here? The courts? Give me a break!

Recently Mozilla released version 3.0 of Firefox and they announced they were going to try and set a world record for the largest number of downloads of a software in 24 hours. Turns out they actually managed to do it (btw, this was the first record of its kind, no one had ever tried to record-ify the number of downloads for a new release). The number of folks who downloaded Firefox on that day exceeded 8 million! Out of these 8 million, 36000 downloaders were in Pakistan.

Not bad ;)