Google’s auto-suggest is not really as stupid as you think. It offers ‘weird’ suggestions because some people across the web found them useful.
15 December 2009What are we supposed to make of India’s number one test cricket team ranking?
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09 December 2009Rom Houben is said to be in a locked-in state, not coma, where the brain is conscious but the body totally paralysed.
02 December 2009Just because your kids are on the computer at home, they’re not out of harm. Short of a Facebook ban, this is how you can keep them safe.
02 December 2009Don’t over-charge or under-charge it. Keep it powered at anything from 20 per cent to 80 per cent, and it’ll stay with you longer
26 November 2009Headley is believed to have visited India seven times between 2006 and 2008 to plan terror attacks
19 November 2009If your grandfather thinks he is too old for Facebook, Gmail and SMS, then for once at least, he is seriously mistaken.
18 November 2009Nifty gadgets and cool homepages don’t make for a sexy search engine. Relevant results do
16 November 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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