Hakia is focused on bringing quality results via its semantic search technology.

Save Time and Effort: Quality results eliminate the time and effort required to assess the credibility, freshness, and relevancy of the search results.

Get Correct Information: Credibility-stamped results ensure that the information you found is the best available out there. It prevents from the consequences of using misleading or commercially-biased information.

Reach Unique Information: hakia’s semantic search can bring results to unique, personal, and complex queries that are unreachable by popularity methods due to the limitations of statistics (known as the long tail challenge).

Get Second Opinon: Even when popular results are good (say, when using Google), hakia’s results will offer a new perspective, and a valuable second opinion from credible Web pages.

A semantic search engine is the one that brings relevant results based on concept match rather than keyword match or popularity ranking.

Tata Motors announced recently that it has entered into a definitive agreement with the Ford Motor Company for the purchase of Jaguar Land Rover, comprising brands, plants and Intellectual Property Rights.
The transfer of ownership to Tata Motors is expected to close by the end of the next quarter, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.
The total amount to be paid in cash by Tata Motors for Jaguar Land Rover upon closing will be approximately US $2.3 billion. At closing, Ford will then contribute up to approximately US $600 million to the Jaguar Land Rover pension plans.

Tata Motors earlier unveiled the cheapest car in the world for $2,500, but is also India’s largest automobile company, with revenues of US$ 7.2 billion in 2006-2007.
With over 4 million Tata vehicles in India, it is the leader in commercial vehicles and the second largest in passenger vehicles.

This luxury car deal might look like a contradiction but Tata wants to establish a global brand and this deal will help them immensely. I bet on that.

“Google Code University provides tutorials and sample course content so Computer Science students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms”, says Google.

This site contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas: AJAX Programming. Distributed Systems, Web Security and Languages such C++, JAVA, Python.
Code samples, video presentations (YouTube and Google Video) and the like.
Also find tutorials about Database and MySQL and Software Configuration Management.
Good stuff.

“British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90.” BBC News says.

His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and foresaw the concept of communication satellites.
When asked why he never patented his idea for communication satellites, he said:

“I did not get a patent because I never thought it will happen in my lifetime.”

He was the author of more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books. He collaborated on the screenplay for “2001: A Space Odyssey” with Kubrick.
He was a honorary Chairman for Arthur C.Clarke Foundation.
He was …

Ok, webmasters / web developers, here’s the news:

the oldest animated character in the world is … a goat leaping to get the leaves on a tree.

Without a website support to show it, our ancient artist used a painted bowl.

But if you start spinning … here’s the output:

Pretty cool, eh? Now, you can make your day and insert this public domain animated character to your website, or even better, take some pottery class and start build on this new media.

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo.

The service allows you to find the most relevant results on all media including blogs, photos, videos and audio files.

Maybe it is not the most user friendly site, but is one of the biggest among social bookmarking and blog search engines.

Within 10 hours, Bill Gates got 1,200 answers to a question that he posted on professional networking site LinkedIn, with new comments coming in every minute. OMG!

Some people speculated that Gates’ very public use of LinkedIn indicates that he wants to buy the site, “since Linkedin was chosen over the Microsoft properties to ask this question”.

Read the whole ITWorld article here

I like LinkedIn and you should give it a try.