Why Google still rules

I wanted to know a simple thing - How I can get the address of an object in Python? So I queried Google as usual and the first link took me to the answer - bulls eye! Check it out! Something made me to ask the exact same query in other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, Clusty and MSN! - I did it! And you want to know what happened? Check out for yourself what the other search engines returned to me. No wonder "Page Rank" and "Relevance" rocks! (click on the images to enlarge them).

Caveat: MSN returned the next best results - looks like MS is really putting its efforts into its search dominance. Also one surprising thing - I thought that Yahoo is powered by Inktomi and MSN is powered by Yahoo - why then MSN and Yahoo differ so much in their results? Looks like Ask and Yahoo kind of returned similar results to the same query.

Way to go - Eric Schmidt

Direct link to the article: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/aug/29bod.html

This is amazing news - Google's CEO is now a part of the Apple's Board of Director! I had called up home the other day and my dad was asking me if I knew that Google's CEO was now a part of the BOD of Apple. If my dad has to ask that, you can imagine how big the news has become and to its trajectory is pretty big - people in India knew almost immediately when the news became official here. Anyways, lets hope for the best to succeed and provide the best for the customers. I did find one more piece of information on the Apple site:

Taken from: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/bod.html

Fred D. Anderson Partner, Elevation Partners Former CFO, Apple Computer, Inc. Bill Campbell Chairman and former CEO Intuit Corp. Millard Drexler Chairman and CEO J. Crew Albert Gore Jr. Former Vice President of the United States Steve Jobs CEO, Apple Arthur D. Levinson, Ph. D. Chairman and CEO Genentech Dr. Eric Schmidt CEO Google Jerry York Chairman, President and CEO Harwinton Capital

Google Apps for your Domain

Direct URL: https://www.google.com/a/



Today Google launched Google Apps for your domain - the long awaited entry of Google into the domain of Office. But hey, where is Writely and Spreadsheets? Maybe it will get added later, really wish it does!

You know what I like the best among the apps for your domain - GMail - its much better than Outlook and Google Calendar rocks! You don't need to install any software on any of the client machines - what a relief for the IT admin guys!

Anyways, all these products have been around for a while now individually, now they are bunched together for a particular domain. Not that Google had to rewrite the software for domains specifically, they just spilled it over to the Office Space. MS, get ready for online collaborative documents, email and calendar.