Search Engines and Browsers WAR

Many of us would not be amazed to know that the most widely used search engine is Google. But can u tell the market share of google? It is around 90%. Now that is monopoly. What about the traditional monopolist in the software industry Microsoft? Microsoft's Live is well below 1%. Yahoo comes second with market share of around 8%. Here is the graph for the search engines.




The war in the web browser's zone is interesting. Here, Microsoft has maintained the top slot, but its market share is declining continuously. Mozilla's Firefox popularity seems to be increasing. Very recently, Microsoft has launched Internet Explorer 8, but it has very few takers. I am sure that Microsoft will be able to maintain its lead in browser domain mainly because of its dominance in OS battlefield. IE comes pre-installed with Windows, even when the version is pirated. Try uninstalling IE from Vista and if you succeed, let me know.

Am I a smuggler?

I just thought about it while reading a newspaper article. On trips to US, I have brought many cameras back for my friends, relatives and myself. For all these cameras (4 of them), I did not pay any duties. One of them was very expensive ( $1300). I have been to US 4 times and I am aware that I can bring one camera for my personal use per trip. So technically, I did not break any rule. Still, I felt the guilt of bending one. Now you people tell me - Was I wrong not to pay any custom duties?

Resurrection of my blog 1

I am very very sorry for a really long gap in posting on my blog. A lot of things have happened in this gap of 7 months:

• A trip to US - This one was memorable. I was working with one of the Directors of Wachovia. Saw some biggies falling like Lehman Brothers, Merill Lynch, AIG, etc. Visited Smoky Mountains, Philadelphia, Dallas.
• Marriage - I got married to Madhura on 29th November. The marriage took place in Bhopal and Pune. The function was very long. It lasted 7 days. :) I created few webpages for the marriage. I will post the URL and the snaps soon.
• I moved to a new place which is a 2BHK apartment.
  
• I have bought PS2 slim version.
• I went to Kodaikanal on a long weekend.
• I saw AeroShow in Bangalore on 14th Feb, Valentine's Day. I saw some of the most wonderful flying machines like Sukhoi, F-16, Apache, etc.
• I watched some good movies like Slumdog Millionaire, Billu, Malena

I now promise you that I would regularly post on this blog.