Thursday, August 13, 2009

Bhuvan is the new Earth

Bhuvan is ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organization) answer to Google Earth. Although why they needed to answer Google is beyond me. Anyway the news so far on Bhuvan is very good. It can zoom to levels of up to 10 mt compared to Google Earth's 200 mt. It provides multilayer information, images are upgraded every year (compare with four years for Google Earth) and has an option of viewing on different dates.
The link to download the software is http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/; but like all things Indian the website is currently not responding due to excessive traffic. They can launch satellites and develop sophisticated software, but some how they can't handle traffic on their site. Tell me if you can get through and download the software.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Yebol: Seems like a good idea.

Yebol; the new search engine is fast (obviously), is more robust than Bing in my opinion (i couldn't find relevant results to certain terms....for example try searching for "onesmartidea blog")and certainly smarter than Google (because of a higher results to noise ratio)but not as robust. Yebol promises to get better though in the next 3 to 6 months. It seems to me to be based on a Neural Networks approach to search.
If you ask me (although I wonder why?) the jury is still out as far as the best search experience is concerned, but Yebol is definitely something to look out for.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Yebol: A new search engine

A new semantic search engine called Yebol has recently been launched. It claims to be able to provide categorized results for over 10 million search terms.
You guys might wanna go check it out and tell me about your experience.