| Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
Google and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia, they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors. The entire search engine project Wikia is working on will enter the open source domain, drastically reducing the cost for just about anyone to make a search engine, said Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia. Instead of paying millions of dollars to index the Web, create the software to build a search page, a filter for empty or spam pages, and an algorithm to calculate and rank findings, new search companies will find these items free online thanks to the open source and free software communities. "In search, it still costs about US$5 million to US$10 million to build a site," said Penchina during an interview in Taipei. "We want to make it possible for anyone to build a search site for US$500.
Closing doors on net porn
WHEN our political leaders start using MySpace and YouTube as campaigning tools, it signals Australians of all ages have opened their doors to the worldwide web. The internet is the street, inviting all the promise, attractions, delights and dangers of the outside world into your home. And this street has its gutter, overflowing with pornographic sites, unsavory spam and chat-room predators. Filtering these out is difficult, so families will welcome Prime Minister John Howard topping up last year's $117 million package to tackle cleaning up the net. An extra $72 million will be spent to provide free "child-friendly" filtering software to parents at home and to libraries. The Howard program concentrates on free screening programs for personal computers, offered through a call centre also giving education and advice.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Country's leading telecom player, Bharti Airtel on Monday tied up with Internet search engine Google, to provide web-based services to its customers. Under the agreement, Airtel will offer its broadband customers access to portal with Google search for web-based queries, Gmail with 2GB storage, spam filter and options for web access, free of cost. It will also offer customers Google Docs and Spreadsheets so that they can share and collaborate in real time and Google talk instant messaging and chatting service.| Besides these offerings, customers will get the option to personalise their Internet start page with content of individual preference -- news, blog postings, weather and other interactive content and services. ''By offering an enhanced broadband experience to the customers powered by Google, Bharti has moved a step ahead to meet the target of meeting infotainment needs of consumer on TV, PC and mobile,'' Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services President Atul Bindal told reporters here.
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