Five Search Engines Old Timers Should Know
by lokety on Jan.05, 2007, under Posts
In the years before Google was anything but a simple colourful page, there were several legacy search engines still crawling the young and delicate Internet (or ARPANET). For those of you who first got online with a dial-up modem more than ten years ago, you should know these five common search engines back then.
1. Altavista
Has always been so minimalistic in design and returns useful results consistently. One nifty app that I still use for fun and research is the Babelfish (a nod to Douglas Adams fans).
2. WebCrawler
My second favourite search engine after Altavista. Its results are presented in a pleasant format.
3. Lycos
Lycos was probably the first search engine with lots of news links and little applications that Google is so well known for now.
4. Excite
Excite’s design hasn’t changed much since the beginning: just as messy. The results are quite accurate though.
5. Netscape
The darling of the early Web. Old timers were surfing using Netscape betas, cool! Back then, nobody heard of Internet Explorer, just Mozilla and mostly lynx (ahh beauty).
In another year, Google would be ten years old anyway.
Links:
Wikipedia – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET>
Search Engine Watch – Where Are They Now? Search Engines We’ve Known & Loved
<URL:http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2175241>
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BorderWare MXtreme: E-mail Firewall Antispam Product
by lokety on Jan.05, 2007, under Posts
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Is this a familiar sight in your mailbox these days?
A relatively new breed of e-mail spam is becoming prevalent where the e-mail contains an image with the advertisement text and graphics inside. Traditional text-based anti-spam software is useless against such spam because the e-mail will not contain any searchable text at all. It is estimated that image spam now accounts for 35% of all spam.
BorderWare, a messaging security solutions provider, has a product called BorderWare MXtreme, which is an advanced anti image spam system. Check out the product information here.
In addition to the usual optical character recognition technology that can be used on the image spam, MXtreme has a patent-pending technology called Intercept Image Analysis. This performs image classification and more than thirty image attribute processing, such as word salads, random speckling, image manupilation, animated GIF, various colouration and fonts.
As a result, BorderWare’s anti-spam solution can detect 98% of all spam on the e-mail servers. If you are in the IS department and looking for a better anti-spam product, check out BorderWare MXtreme today.
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New Tech News Blog: The Tech Planet
by lokety on Jan.05, 2007, under Posts
Being a techie/geeky guy who still enjoys toys for big boys and the latest technological advancements, I’m always on the lookout for technology news on the web. Recently, I’ve come across a blog-style site that covers technology, trends, software and web services. Check out The Tech Planet.
The posts are concise and just the right size for quick digestion, so it’s worth adding to your RSS reader. Posts also contain photos of the subject, making it easier to browse topics of interest.
It’s fairly new (from December 2006), but I think it suits techie people like myself and complements the topics on my own blog. For example, the post on “Honda readys fuel-cell car for 2018″ talks about when Honda plans to offer a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car in ten years’ time. Author Michael Paul says that the timeline and sale price are off the mark and I agree with him. With rising fuel costs and world climate, we need alternative fuel vehicles within the next few years.
Go visit The Tech Planet today to get a quick dose of technology news that makes you stand out from the general population. :)
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