Bing follows Google suite with innovation! Launches Auto Suggest based on history!

Bing has come up with a new feature that doesn’t exist in the market as of date! It now gives Auto suggests based on your past searches. Google also stores your past searches(if you are logged into google) using web history. Yahoo now seems to be the only safe search engine out there which doesn’t seem to be storing users past searches!

As per bing offical blog

In fact, 44% of non-navigational search sessions last longer than 1 week!

This move might again stir up the Hornets nest of privacy concerns! Lets wait and watch!

DISCLAIMER: Author works for Yahoo! Search and the opinion displayed in here are his personal views and nothing to do with the official stand of any of the above mentioned companies. All the data mentioned in here are to the best of my personal knowledge. Any discrepancy which might have crept in here is solely due to my own ignorance and I take no responsibility for any usage/misusage of the above mentioned.

an arbit post!

An arbit post! After a looong time! Times have been changing! From my yesteryears of college days to today of working hours. Yesterday was the first Pragyan in my last 4 years that I didnt attend! Why I didn’t go could be a stupid reason but a rational one. So unlike me! And then the last weekend. Saying out something that you always wanted to say to a dear one is always relieving. After a while you may think that maybe you should not have said / done so. But I believe in living in the world knowing that I did whatever I could. If something went wrong then maybe it was my mistake or maybe none of my fault. But anygiven day its far better than living in the world thinking what if I would ve done so. Had it be any different? This thought of ‘maybe it would ve been different if I would ve done so’ is the most killing one. I believe in action. Do what you want to do. Be ready to face all its consequences. Don’t just sit there wondering if you should do something or not! I do so in each and everything except for one thing – whenever the question pertains to a member of the opposite sex, then you can count on me to take forever to get out of the loop as to whether I should or whether I should not! Though I ve been working upon it lately and I think I ve overcome the sole indecision factor to a greater extend. Still many a times I think that maybe I shouldn’t have said so to her. But then that wouldn’t ve been me right? I am what I am. And you need to accept me in my entirety. With my flaws and failures.
Its funnily weird yet a well known strange fact that writing/talking/blogging out helps your to vent out. I wanted to say something! Twitter was a bit short. FB and gtalk – too many people. So here I am. In my new home. Talking out to the world. cheers!

Surge 2010

UPDATE: Results declared!

UPDATE: From the IIT-K Surge Site:

The results of SURGE 2010, for Non-IITK students, will be declared on Tuesday, 6th April 2010. Thank you for your patience and sorry for the delay.

Update: The results of SURGE 2010, for Non-IITK students, will be declared by the end of March 2010.

Its been over two years since I first blogged about surge 2008. I followed it up with another one on surge 2009 after seeing the traffic on that particular post. Here is the info on the series about surge 2010.

First and foremost, What is Surge?

Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence
SURGE at IIT Kanpur

The Under the Summer Undergraduate Research Grant for Excellence (SURGE) program, undergraduate students from IITK and other participating institutions will undertake short duration, but focused research projects and push their intellectual abilities beyond those driven by the classroom. The duration is 10 weeks from early-May to end-July of each year. Students working at IITK will receive a stipend of Rs.10,000 for the entire 10-week duration; an additional Rs.10,000 Award plus a commendation certificate will be given to those SURGE students who produce exceptional quality research during the 10 weeks. IITK students in overseas institutions will receive a stipend as fixed by the agreement between IITK and the participating institutes.

Surge has added a couple of more foreign institutes to its list in 2010. Now the Universities for SURGE 2010 are California Institute of Technology (http://www.caltech.edu), Ecole Polytechnique (http://www.polytechnique.edu), Ecole Centrale de Paris (http://www.ecp.fr) and Rice University (http://www.rice.edu).

However the above is available only to IIT-K students.

Surge 2010 has a new feature! People from other colleges can also apply to Surge. Also, now First year M.Sc/ MA can also apply to Surge. Earlier only B.Tech students of NITs could apply for surge.

Unfortunately it seems that this year’s application dates are over :(

The completed application form along with the paper copies will be due on/before February 12, 2010.

Students studying in the following colleges are eligible to apply for the SURGE program in 2010 at IIT Kanpur. Please note that students from any department of these colleges can apply to any department at IIT Kanpur.

The SURGE program is open to all students currently in their 2nd year and 3rd year of bachelors (BA/B.Sc/B.E/B.Tech) or 1st year of M.Sc/MA.

Students from all IITs, NITs, IISERs and NISERs are eligible to apply for the SURGE program. In addition, students from the following colleges may also apply.

The list of colleges that are eligible for Surge application are:

1. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
2. Amrita Institute, Coimbatore
3. Andhra University
4. Anna University
5. Banaras Hindu University (all departments including IT-BHU)
6. Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
7. Bharadidasan University
8. Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
9. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa Campus
10. Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi
11. Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri
12. Burdwan University
13. BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli
14. Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai
15. Cochin University, Kochi
16. College of ceramic technology Kolkata
17. College of Engineering, Pune
18. College of Engineering, Trivandrum
19. College of Technology, G B Pant University
20. CSJM University, Kanpur
21. Delhi College of Engineering
22. Delhi School of Economics
23. Delhi University
24. Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Infomation and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar
25. Govt. College of Engg. Salem (Metallurgical Engg.)
26. Gulbarga University
27. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab
28. HBTI, Kanpur
29. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata
30. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI),Bangalore
31. Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
32. Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Mumbai
33. Institute of Mathematics and Application, Bhubaneshwar
34. International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad
35. Jadavpur University
36. Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University (JNTU), Hyderabad
37. Jawaharlal Nehru University
38. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar
39. Lucknow University
40. Madras School of economics
41. Madurai Kamaraj University
42. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.
43. Mangalore University
44. Manipal University
45. MIT, Anna University, Chennai
46. MS University Baroda
47. National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi
48. National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai
49. Osmania University
50. Pondicherry University
51. Presidency College, Kolkata
52. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
53. Punjab Engineering College
54. Punjab University
55. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology
56. Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar
57. Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat
58. St. Stephens College
59. St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
60. St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
61. Thapar Institute of Engineering and technology
62. The Laxmi Nivas Mittal Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur
63. Thiyagarajar College of Engg, Madurai
64. UIET, Kanpur University
65. University College of Science & Tech, Calcutta University
66. University Department of Chemical Technology
67. University of Bombay
68. University of Calcutta
69. University of Hyderabad
70. University of Madras, Chennai
71. University of Pune
72. Veer Jijamata Technical Institute, Mumbai
73. Vellore Institute of Technology
74. Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
75. West Bengal University of Technology

eye openers at @indiblogger meet #kyra #indiblr

Second in the series on the indiblogger meet at Kyra in Bangalore on February 21, 2010.
This is my second live blogging opportunity. My first live blogging opportunity was way baack in college during a meet discussing something for pragyan 08!
Okay, while the introduction continues, the one thing that rather one person that left me speechless for a couple of seconds was the blind blogger! Yes, as the name suggests thats his nick for no small reason. He indeed is blind.
Am speechless. Looking forward to have a conversation with him and then update more over here.

Also, there is this youngest guy over here, who (un)fortunately has been introduced to blogging by a MSIE fan :! :P

@Indiblogger meet at Kyra

okay.. so the bloggers meet at Kyra in bangalore has started..
The meet started with the introduction of the indiblogger team, followed by intro from the various bloggers who have conjured here for the meet.
People bragging about their blogs. People who are good at writing but maybe not all that great a speaker (I am neither :P )
Some people are good at speaking and am sure their writing will be a pleasure to read!

Various people described their blogs in their own words.
But the one description that drew the maximum attention was ..
“I dont have a blog”.. Yeah! That was Murali!
Murali is here to learn and be inspired by the nuisance of the bloggers :)

The wide variety of bloggers can still be aggregated withing a range of people writing upon tech, music, personal, poetry, anything and everything and nothing!

While people are busy introducing themselves, the self-professed photographers are busy clicking the meet :)

Lots of tweeples are also here. Notably, Lord Dhempe, tinucherian, ashwinsid, Santhosp, tweepak (and myself :P )

ANd the beer has started to flow :D
That was the introductory post.. more (along with pics ) coming in soon ! :D