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More On My Favoritestest Band

What’s the best-selling album ever? That’s the question some guy asked at Ask Yahoo! today. And [shudder], I hope the spirit of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy forgives me, for (as even Ask Y! thought earlier) even I thought it was Wacko Jacko’s Thriller. Nada. That’s not correct! This is what Ask Y! team has to say:

The high-flying Eagles are the real champs of the charts. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” by the Eagles is the best-selling album ever with 29 million copies sold. Jacko’s “Thriller” is second, followed by “Led Zeppelin IV,” Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” and AC/DC’s “Back in Black.” It’s unlikely the Eagles will ever be surpassed.

Surprised? Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn’t be. After all, since I came to know that the official h2g2 theme is by the Eagles, they’ve become the greatest band of all time for me. BTW, except for Jacko, the other ones mentioned are among my top favorites too. In other news, I am still hunting for the original album. Ah, wish it was a 1942 album, that’d have made it tougher to find, but the significance of the year…

Once again, Yahoo! made me discover something life-altering that I never knew about. Yahoo! rules!

Yahoo! India Maps review

Yahoo! Maps finally comes to India! And a real big void has now started filling up. Till now, the only major company that had an India offering was Google Maps. And then there’s MapMyIndia.com, which had a Code Warrior among it’s core team. Well, now you can add another one to the list – Yahoo! India Maps.

The first thing that you’ll notice is that it loads WAY faster than Google Maps. Similar to it, it offers three views – Map, Satellite and Hybrid (which is a combination of the earlier two). The searches, the correction, and the loading times are pretty quick. You WILL notice one thing though – the detail is much lesser right now in satellite view. Yahoo! does plan to shift to a higher resolution soon. Also, businesses and other features aren’t that numerous, and the map mostly consists of mosques and temples right now, but it’s getting there. Most localities I tried out found a match.

Yahoo! India Maps has started recently, so don’t expect any fireworks or much comparison right now, but I’m pretty sure that given time, it’ll be a much better product than Google Maps. Last heard, it was given 10-km detours for a 10 minute walk down the road in Australia for certain routes. MSN Maps is even better – in Netherlands it was showing some routes which had hundreds of kilometers of detour.