User: dhyanesh

Sharks with lasers

On: Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray

Now they just need sharks with lasers in the pool ...

Why China is missing

On: Google Publishes Censorship Map

"Chinese officials consider censorship demands to be state secrets, so we cannot disclose that information at this time."

Source: Click on China in the map here.

Site is slashdottted

On: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx)

Anyone with a mirror?

Re:They need to do something more radically differ

On: Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail

That's not true in my experience. I have switched from Google to Scroogle (.org) which doesn't track me. I lose the geolocation (hits from my own country first), but everything else is fine.

I think you are sorely missing the point. If Google doesn't track a few users like you that doesn't hurt. If a search engine stopped tracking *everyone* (which is what you are suggesting) then you would get terrible results. Read this blog post if you want to learn more why this data is useful and what you would miss out on.

Re:They need to do something more radically differ

On: Microsoft Lost Search War By Ignoring the Long Tail

Why not try to make a search engine that doesn't track what you do?

If a search engine doesn't track you it will give so bad results that you would stop using it.