Google now searches Code & Blogs!
Few days a go i found out Google searches Source codes of software and also Blogs, Try out this Google Labs Project:
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
http://www.google.com/codesearch
Archive for Internet News
Google Buys YouTube!!
Google is buying video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares after a weekend of speculation that a deal was in the offing.
The two companies will continue to operate independently, Google said as it announced the news on Monday.
YouTube, launched in February 2005, has grown quickly into one of the most popular websites on the internet.
It has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.
Kenya aims for own internet cable
I know this is old news.. Even then… Good for Kenya and also good for Tanzania.. We can now also benefit from both projects, EASSY and the Kenya Fiber Optic link, Which should help Tanzania to meet its bandwidth needs in the future..
What Tanzanian ISP’s should do..
Hi!,
Today ill be writing about what Tanzanian ISP’s should do to help the internet users of Tanzania.
First of all, The TIX (Tanzania Internet Exchange). The TIX is a first for Tanzania, The exchange point which is located on the Top floor of Posta house in Dar es Salaam, Has around 12 Peers!! which is alot!. If you try to ping a local ISP such as Cats-Net or Benson Online, It will usually return an average ping of 15ms, Compare that to pinging download.com with an average ping time of 700ms. The bandwidth that you can get from the TIX (While downloading stuff from another local isp) is around 2mbps+ (if you dont have a bandwidth limit), While downloading from an international site would give you speeds of around 20KB/s. As you can see… If we have files on the servers of local ISP’s, File downloads would be as fast as in the UK!!.
The first ISP to host software files like this was Raha.com, It was providing a mirror for Tucows. I remember downloading a few software from it at around 60KB/s which was quite fast at that time. A few years ago it was taken down.
The best solution for this is that the ISP’s in Tanzania should have somthing like a “Local Internet”, All Tanzanian sites should be hosted locally, Servers are not that expensive!!. If this happens, Everything else will follow… Local Mirrors, File Sharing Networks and other cool geek stuff.
