Search Engine Results

Is there any solution if you want to search simultaneously on various search engine.

Yes, a meta search engine named as "Zuula" is there which lets you run concurrent searches on eight different search engines. It has a tabbed format that allows the user to switch on to search results of various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alexa etc. Currently it allows simultaneous search on eight search engines.

If you want ot see Search Results Pages in addition to your favorite search engine then it could be very useful. With the tabbed format you could do that at a click of a mouse. And apart from normal search it lets you perform separate searches for blogs, news, images and jobs.

With the Edit Tabs option you can customize the order of the tabs as per your preference, filter adult content and even determine the number of search results per page.

So see the results yourself!!!

Google PR

I think Google has updated the PR (Pagerank).

The Pagerank of my blog tusharagarwalinfo.blogspot.com has jumped to 1 from 0.

So guys what are you waiting for. Check the PR of your site or blog. Google has updated PR yesterday.

And probably there may be a PR update again somewhere around 14 Feb 2008 as I guess.

Features of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Hey Guys,

Microsoft has released Beta 2 release of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 and is now available for download.

I have tried to list some of the features of VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 formally called as ".NET Framework Orcas"

1. Multi-Targeting Support
• That means VS 2008 will support for all the .net framework versions. It automatically supported for .NetFramework 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0.
• Now when you open an existing project or create a new one with VS 2008, you can pick which version of the .NET Framework to work with - and the IDE will update its compilers and feature-set to match this.

2. Web Designer and CSS Support
A few big tool features in the web development:
• JavaScript and CSS intellisense
• Much richer JavaScript debugging
• Nested ASP.NET master page support at design-time
• Rich CSS editing and layout support within the WYSIWYG designer
• Split-view designer support for having both source and design views open on a page at the same time
• A much faster ASP.NET page designer - with dramatic perf improvements in view-switches between source/design mode
• Automated .SQL script generation and hosting deployment support for databases on remote servers

3. ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support
• JavaScript intellisense
• Simple solutions for Calling Services from JavaScript.
• JavaScript Debugging
• Update Panel support with Web Parts,
• WCF support for JSON,
• Number of bug fixes
• Performance improvements

4. Language Improvements and LINQ

5. Data Access Improvements with LINQ to SQL

6. Integrating with the Office 2007 ribbon

7. WCF and Workflow projects and designers are included

8. AJAX web testing (unit and load)

Cheers !!

Tushar