Microsoft-Yahoo : Our Take

This is the hottest news in the WWW these days- Microsofts offer for Yahoo. We are no businessmen and don't care about the deal or anything but one thing is for sure that if this deal takes place its gonna be awesome.
Together they have the potential to take on Google and i'd prefer them even if they are a notch lower than Google because i prefer my privacy to anything else. But the current Live search is to pathetic to use maybe Microsoft+Yahoo may be a better search.
Also it would mean serious competition for Google which hasn't seen any in last 5yrs.
It would also mean the revival of services that suffered just because Google didn't like them (Payperpost,Reviewme).
Also it would combine the two best messengers in the world and who khnows they might create an email service better than Gmail!
AND ABOVE ALL
I would also like this merger because nobody wants Google to become the Microsoft of internet!

Google Experimental Search

A very interesting page i discovered at QuickOnlineTips:
http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html
This page has a lot of Experiments that Google is giving a try to and may be included in their main search engine in the future.Their are many interesting search prospects that one may like to join but unfortunately its one at a time.
Google is even more in the news recently with the TLA,ReviewMe and Payperpost controversies and a popular blogger said he got an email from someone saying google are launching their own Review service and he believe they may do it....!
All we can do is wait and watch :-(

New Adsense Formats????

Everyone in the blogosphere is talking about the new round cornered adsense ad formats....but when i logged in on my account to check that i didn't find them in the ad-formats page.
Anybody any idea what this is all about?I certainly think that thr ads are available in india because even Amit Aggarwal from digital inspiration blogged about them.

Searching Tips To Help You Find Info Faster

All of us have often wasted long hours searching for content when we could have found exactly what we needed fairly easily.
Tip 1
While searching for a group of terms such as science project on environment you'll get much better results if you type it as "science project on environment".This is specially helpful if you are looking for a phrase in a document.you can remove the quotes if you want more results ofcourse.
Tip 2
It will be better if you use parts of sentences in some places instead of asking questions to the search engine because the search engine is not human and looks for text in the documents.
Eg- "a blog is a" will yield better results than 'what is a blog?'
Tip 3
If you are searching fro info on a non acamdemic topic such as video games or iPhone (thats what you search for these days, dont you? then its a good idea to try google blog search it provides more recents content because blogs are updated more frequently than websites.
Tip 4
There are hoards of search engines out there and i have spent 2 hours searching different things on Google,Yahoo,Windows Live,Alta Vista and Rediff search and Google is by far the best.But if you are worried about Gogle's privacy policy,then use Yahoo Search which is the next best.All others are so-so you can make do with them.However whatever you do dont try Windows Live Search because it is indeed a horrror.
Tip 5
Its a god idea to search for a topic on Wikipedia before you relentlessly start searching for it.
Tip 6>
If you want to be kind to me use Jhakaas Search because that will help me in many ways will produce the same search results as google with a different color that will provide a change for the eyes used to seeing the blue-and-white google search results.