Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

New search engines: Tybit search engine offers search affiliates, and AskAlexia ajax search

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Tybit search engineIt’s the first time that I’ve heard of the Tybit search engine, www.tybit.com. I’m not sure whether you guys have heard about it or not. The search engine is claimed to have bundled various search technologies that will grab the searched results from over three major search engines, which are Google, Yahoo and MSN.

From my understanding the Tybit search engine shouldn’t have their own indexes database, which they work like others which is only a wrapper of the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN). As when you perform a search on tybit, it shows very close searched results to the big three. Nowadays, even the three are getting closer to each other.

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More bloggers get arrested!

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Bloggers get arrested!
Bloggers, beware! The figure shows a constant rise in the arrest of bloggers in some countries. But fortunately, they’re many of them are blogging about politics, going against the government. If you don’t do such offence, I guess you’re pretty safe. A graph is attached above for your reference.

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Grandy’s Epack Corporation - another email job scam, sounds too good to be true

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Grandy’s Epack Corporation job scam
What a good morning that an email dropped into my BlackBerry telling me that a fairly simple online job that would pay me $3,500 a month. It definitely sounds very attractive. And I almost wanted to key in all my info and make a reply. But after thinking further, it really sounds too nice to be true. $3,500 a month and what it needs to you to do is some simple data entry work and you’ll need to possess only some basic accounting skill.

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Pageflakes has been acquired offcially

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Pageflakes has been acquired offciallyOver the past few years when the web 2.0 was boiling hot, many quite dedicated web 2.0 applications were mushrooming over the Internet. Pageflakes this name sounds little new to me, as I didn’t really keep myself following closely to try out every single web 2.0 app that ever surfaced in the Internet. But if you’ve ever used Netvibes, then you should grab the concept what Pageflakes is.

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Ecocho - green search engine, donates searches’ revenue to buy carbon offsets

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Ecocho - carries green words but make money from Adsense for SearchIt seems like the Internet still wants more search engines? Even a lot of them could be just duplicates. And of course, nowadays many just build them as a wrapper of the giants such as Google and Yahoo. As the giants’ API is now easily available for you to grab and use. The Ecocho is an Australian search engine that is built as a wrapper to both Google and Yahoo.

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Google employees’ salary statistics - how much a Google employee is making per year?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Google salary scaleAbout three years ago an article ever published that Google has the best office on Earth, which their employees get the first class service in their office. Where they’re getting the free massages, gourmet meals, and professional haircuts at their beautiful campus in California.

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Overly tempting scam - ContactThem offers link placement $4,800 per month on your websites/blogs

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

ContactThem scam too good to be true for offering $4,800 for buying links on your websites/blogs
Perhaps many of you have received the same email as I did as shown above. An email which is super tempting asking for placing links on one of your pretty popular websites/blogs, offering for $4,800 per month to place their links.

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Make money online blog, JohnChow dot com penalized with much lower Google Page Rank?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Make money online blog JohnChow.com with much lower Google’s search rank and page rank
This post might be irrelevant to any Internet hot trend and buzz, it’s just a post to express my personal view about some phenomenon over the Internet, it’s about the Google Page Rank that has got many “Internet money seekers” obsessed. And the story will center around JohnChow.com. I’m not a consistent reader of JohnChow.com but sometime I’ll drop by to read how this guy makes big bucks from the Internet. In my mind, he’s ever made up $20-30K (USD) per month, which is quite lucrative by doing few hours at home a day.

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The Grid, super fast Internet tops at 4 on Google search

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The grid - 10,000 times faster Internet
Search for the Grid also has reached position 4 at the hour of writing this post. What is the grid all about? The grid is the super fast Internet technology or computer networks that will be used by Cern for delivering its huge data gathered from its particle accelerator.

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