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Google Passes 74% Market Share – Hitwise

Posted: July 24th, 2009 | Author: asrar | Filed under: SEO | No Comments »

Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 74.04 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.19 percent, 5.25 percent and 3.15 percent, respectively. view full article

We finally have some data to back up what we already know. It will be interesting to see how Bing does in the next 6 months and how its success will affect Yahoo, whose popularity is already falling rapidly.


R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Posted: June 26th, 2009 | Author: asrar | Filed under: Personal | No Comments »

Despite the controversies and weirdness-factor associated with Michael Jackson, there’s no denying that he was the most entertaining musician of our time.  His voice was full of passion and his dance moves were jaw-dropping.  The album Thriller sold over 100 million copies – no other album in history has sold even half that amount. His style and versatility revolutionized many musical genres and he was the only true “global” star – everyone in the world loved Jackson’s music. This was his legacy – and no criticism can take that away.


Object Oriented CSS?

Posted: June 25th, 2009 | Author: asrar | Filed under: Web Design | Tags: , | No Comments »

Nicole Sullivan of Yahoo is on a mission to promote a new way of coding CSS – an object oriented fashion. In theory it makes sense: the cascading qualities of CSS are similar to object inheritance, and there is need to have a standard coding practice defined.

Are the days of spaghetti CSS code coming to an end? Only time will tell.


Screwed up answer

Posted: May 26th, 2009 | Author: asrar | Filed under: Personal | No Comments »

Where are the screw drivers?

“Why are you using these Phillips style screws? You should be using the square head ones. Sure, they are not as strong as yours and we’ll probably need twice as much, but they’re much safer than your kind. We have to keep our structure and workers safe! What if your pointy Phillips screw driver falls on someone’s hand? That pointy edge could be dangerous. The square heads are more secure. I think Tony usually uses square heads also. Anyway, they’re way better. ”

(short silence)

Where are the screw drivers?


Faster, safer and easier

Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Author: asrar | Filed under: Random | 1 Comment »

From Google Chrome‘s download page:

“Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

From IE 8′s download page:

Faster, safer, easier than ever”

Emphasis added.