Internet Marketing Blog by Tilak

Today I have seen NEW look of Yahoo! search. It is called Yahoo! Search Assist. Right now I can see this feature in Internet Explorer only not in FireFox.

This Search Assist is more user friendly than old one. It helps users to match a word when you typing. At the same time when you write known general term it provides suggestions that include complete searches. Here you can find more about Search Assist.

I would say it is a good tool for users. I love it, and hope you also like.

According to WebmsterWorld post Google Directory is updating with most recent ODP data on 18th August. This update includes all directory edits throught 07-08-2008. Right now following five datacenters have the new versions:

http://gfe-bu.google.com/Top/
http://gfe-fg.google.com/Top/
http://gfe-fk.google.com/Top/
http://gfe-hu.google.com/Top/
http://gfe-mu.google.com/Top/

Incomplete datacentre list: gfe-ag, gfe-an, gfe-au, gfe-ar, gfe-bf, gfe-bp, gfe-bu, gfe-bx, gfe-cw, gfe-dc, gfe-ed, gfe-eh, gfe-ff, gfe-fg, gfe-fk, gfe-gv, gfe-he, gfe-hk, gfe-hs, gfe-hu, gfe-ik, gfe-in, gfe-jc, gfe-jp, gfe-kc, gfe-kr, gfe-lm, gfe-lo, gfe-mc, gfe-mu, gfe-nf, gfe-nz, gfe-od, gfe-po, gfe-pr, gfe-py, gfe-qb, gfe-rn, gfe-ro, gfe-td, gfe-tl, gfe-tw, gfe-ug, gfe-ui, gfe-va, gfe-wr, gfe-wx and gfe-yo.

I think Google is now taking seriously its directory listing. It is also good for Google PR fobia peoples.

UPDATED on 23rd August:
Google Directory for public at http://directory.google.com has been updated.

Today, Skype users is unable to make long distance phone calls over the Internet. It is not immediately clear how many users are affected but Skype users in India, Germany, Finland, and the United States reported difficulties logging on.

Skype has around 220 million accounts with usually 5-6 million users online at given time. The company was acquired by eBay in October 2005 for about $2.1 billion.

“Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue,” according to a site maintained by Skype. “We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours.”

During writing this post, Skype is also unable to login in my computer:( I am hoping to connect via Skype soon.

On 11th August my site get listed in Dmoz directory in regional category. It is good to be listed in dmoz directory.

Update:
Now on 23rd September, 2007 site listing was moved to more specific category.