Friday, March 26, 2010

Internet Explorer losing ground




The world’s most-used internet browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, is on a steady decline in India, reveals a study by Irish
metrics firm StatCounter. IE, as it’s known, has lost almost 20% market share in India in the past two years, even as Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox make great strides.

According to StatCounter, the percentage of PCs running Internet Explorer in India dropped from close to 70% in 2008 to about 51%, currently . The drop was despite an absence of any regulation by a trade commission , unlike that mandated by European Union on Microsoft, this year.In Europe, Internet Explorer lost three times more share this month than usual in some European countries since the company was forced to mandate a ballot screen by EU in its Windows 7 operating system.

The ballot screen offers a choice between Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Opera and others, by displaying icons of rival browsers.

Worldwide, Internet Explorer’s market share has suddenly started dipping, and rivals Chrome’s and Firefox’s rising, from this month, following the EU regulation. Worldwide IE has a market share of about 55% followed by Firefox’s 31%, Chrome at 7% and Safari at about 4% currently.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Bored of normal search engines try these

1. Search Cube- It is a graphical search engine that presents search results in a compact, visual format in three dimensions.It is just like rotating a cube of images with your own hand.



2.Google image swirl- It is a really cool and new image search engine by Google. It is basically a graphical user interface that works like a wonder wheel.

Searching for an image brings up a group of similar photos, and clicking on the branches swirls the image yet again into another group. This eventually leaves you with a narrowed-down set of similar-looking photos.

3. Cooliris- Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, Bing, YouTube, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and even your computer. It is basically add-on earlier for Firefox only but now is also supported bi internet explorer ,Google chrome,safari etc
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