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How the Heck Do Comparison websites make their Money ???

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It has been the season of Christmas and now is moving onto the new year. I have been using many online shopping sites for purchasing stuff online. Mostly I have bought books online and now in the recent past I have moved onto buying Clothes and Sunglasses. Now this is what I used to do, whenever I wanted to buy a book. I would log onto  http://www.indiabookstore.net/  and key in the title of the book I want to buy and lo presto!!! it would pump out the book and the site that would have the least cost for the book. This site would account for flipkart, amazon, indiatimes, crossword. There was this extensive media campaign a few months ago by PolicyBazaar.com that told us, we could compare insurance policies and just needed very little data from us to get us our quote As Apple Computers released their new iPad Air, I was hooked and wanted to buy my first iPad, I hoped to find a site like the one mentioned above that could compare the prices of the iPad Air across all online sh

Yahoo !!! versus Gmail Redux!!!

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Hello Everybody!!!, Its been an astounding year and there have been a lot of changes that have happened. It has now been eon's since I found the time to write about the stuff that is happening around, So, Here goes!!! :) This blog post is a comparative post wherein I present to you 10 reasons to mention why I happen to like a lot in Yahoo mail as opposed to Gmail. By this post I hope to showcase the difference that I have felt (from the time Marissa Meyer's made the transition from Google to Yahoo) Reason # 10 A More Accommodative Yahoo Yahoo allows me many inclusive options to get onto Yahoo, namely the ones that you see in the image above, FB and Lo Behold Google is also included. The Gmail option enhances and showcases multiple options of the Internet Giant, A wonderful case of marketing their products. A product owners dream of marketing come true. Reason#9 No Chat or should I call it Hangout in the Landing page Yahoo does not let me be visible to all m

Welcoming the New Year 2013 “Email Ishtyle”

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A few years ago, I used to keenly await the new year and being able to open up my email to see a lot of emails from my friends, wishing me a “Happy New Year”. (It used to be new year cards that my father would receive from his friends, this got lost in the advent of phone calls and later phone calls had been replaced by eMails.) P.S emails first contained text, then got replaced by eGreetings ;) Now after the advent of Social Media,  all my deluge of emails have been replaced by a single status in various social media, (Its not that I am complaining, I really like this). Now nobody can complain about the lack of getting in touch and wishing us. However, here is what I want to say to all those Spam’sters and Phisher’s who still managed to flood my inbox. Here goes….This post is an individual reply to all those folks who have still managed to send me a personal email and making my New Year Day One FUN .