Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Cyber SQUATTING

Hey People!!!
This stuff uis related to my previous blog featuring Artificial Intelligence By GOOGLE(So if u havent read it pls go through it....)

What is it?
Cybersquatting is a derogatory term used to describe the practice of registering and claiming rights over Internet domain names that are, arguably, not for the taking.Thus in simple words it is Hijacking Domain names and then demanding money for the sale of that Domain Name...
For instance....A person may register for a WebSite having the keywords similar to a renowned Actor or a Firm which is no way related to it...The cybersquatter then offers the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price, an act which some deem to be extortion.

Origin:
Cyber Squatting originated at a time when most businesses weren't particularly aware about commercial opportunities on the Internet. The term derives from 'squatting' and refers to the act of reserving a particular Internet domain name for the purpose of selling it at a higher price later.


Problems Faced:
A change allowing internet domain names to appear in Asian languages has sparked fears about a possible new wave of cyber-squatting...as reported by BBC.For the first time, domain names are being accepted by internet registrars in which everything to the left of the ".com" can appear in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.

The lack of internationalised domain names is creating a class of people who are information have-nots which finally leads to "Multilingual International Names Consortium".

The whole point to tell is that:
This might be one of the reasons why : "www.google.com","www.googlr.com","www.googlw.com"....all lead to Google HomePage...

Well if anyone else has different views ...pls share them...

Hoping to see some interesting facts about this whole issue!!!!

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Artificial Intelligence of GOOGLE

A few days back when I was browsing....I typed " http://www.googlr.com (since am very bad and slow in typing) and found that the GOOGLE homepage loads itself....

Then later i tried all the keys in and aroung "e" and also fount that " www.googlw.com" leads to Google Homepage....

It is as if the googlers know the shortcomings of the IE Browser Users in typing that they have come up with this idea....They know that while you type the Address inthe address bar there are a number of intances where you end up typing a couple of characters which are ADJACENT to the correct ones.

Thus google has come up with this Idea,in which a slight change inyour end character in the same row does not make any difference....(Please dont try anything else than"e" and "w". I guess they dont work out.)


Thus know the Customers more, than just improving the Aesthetic feeling of the Web Page....
Also, you can notice that the HomePage of Google just has a few links and TextBox....Simplicity Rules!!!!

Try this stuff guys!!!!