Google vs Google2

Wednesday, 19th August 2009 No comments »

So you are a search giant and another big company comes along and claim they are making a giant search engine (bing) and soon after they announce that they are merging with another big competitor, what do you do?

This question was put forward to Google recently and already they are back with a sandbox version of their search engine: Google 2.

Now there are no interface changes or lovely background on the search page, instead the new search page is claimed to be faster, more accurate and up to date. I think it was time Google should have done this as Bing was just starting to creep up on search market share. In their own words the Google Development team was working on this project secretly which can easily be called next generation of Google. This enhanced version promises size, indexing, speed and accuracy improvements. As said earlier there are no noticeable changes apart from speed and different results in some cases this web developer release will be a good testing ground for Google.

There is one way for you to test this under construction new version of world’s largest search engine.

We have come up with this little tool: Google vs Google2

You can compare the results from both current Google search engine and all new Google search engine side by side.

Comments and suggestions welcome like always.

Is twitter down?

Thursday, 6th August 2009 No comments »

Is Twitter down?
http://isitdown.us/twitter.com

Stop reloading the twitter page and just click the link above. This website will tell you if twitter website is down or not. remember it just pings the server and check it for you.

You can also check if twitter is down in other parts of world.
http://isitdown.co.uk/twitter.com
http://isitdown.eu/twitter.com

Is it Down? How to check if a website is down

Monday, 27th July 2009 5 comments »

Hi,

So often I get call or email from somebody asking, is (insert a website here) down for you?

Well one way to check is that you call me and I will check and reply to you.
However there is a very quick way, just enter the domain name in the website below and it will report instantly if the website in question is down or not.

isitdown.co.uk

You can also get a direct link to the server status checker from the website.
It follows a simple format that you put the domain name to check right after the website address. e.g. http://isitdown.co.uk/yahoo.com

You can also check if the site you are checking is down for other locations around the globe or not.

Is it down US – http://isitdown.us
Is it down EU – http://isitdown.eu

Remember it is .co.uk / .us and .eu domains (.com is a pointless advert page)

Your comments and questions are welcome like always.

Thank you