Flickr Private Photos are not Private

I was using Yahoo image search option in the morning and came to know about a strange phenomenon. If you are aware Flickr images have been linked in with yahoo image search. So you will find many images from Flickr community in yahoo image search, which is good. Flickr users can save their private images such as nudes, family pictures, pets, Children etc. These pictures are private are not supposed to be viewable until you post them in some groups or give access to family and friends. All well until now but you will be shocked to know that these private pictures can be seen in yahoo image search. Let explain you how.

You can check it the way I did it

- I am using tabs in Firefox
- Logged in to Flickr through my yahoo id.
- A new tab and searched on "yahoo image search" with a keyword
- The result showed many Flickr thumbnails.
- A few thumbnails when I checked out were private. Remember I was logged in to Flickr on other tab so the link from search did not asked me Flickr login/password to access full page on Flickr.

Here is a link to a thumbnail of otherwise private picture.

Does that mean private pictures aren't private ?
Thankfully I don’t save my personal or private pictures on Flickr or internet. But question is how did Yahoo launched a feature without testing it properly.

Tags : Yahoo , Flickr , Bug , Image , Search

Bharat Matrimony : Judging your service

Bharat Matrimony is one of the premier matrimony websites ( purely my opinion ). Whenever you think of matrimony websites you think of Shaadi.com and Bharat matrimony first. All I have used their services but I use to rate them good. This may have lot to do with their marketing and advertisements(specially online ). A few days back I was checking my Yahoo mail, I happen to see the online advertisement of Bharat Matrimony ( See the picture in the box ). Well its not photoshopped, its print screen of the webpage I was visiting. The spelling of Bharat Matrimony ( underlined ) were incorrect. I am not sure its Yahoo or Bharat Matrimony is at fault or its some sort of publicity. But what I know is it had earned Bharat Matrimony some negative points from me. One has to be very immaculate with branding of their products. This won't do any good to them. Be alert guys, the world is watching you.

Microsoft XP Desktop Search Bug

Well I just found a bug in the windows XP. I am not aware if its a known bug or it has been rectified by Microsoft. Just go to the Windows XP desktop and press CTRL + F. The search box appears.











Now enter some search text and press enter. What you get is Error: 122 'location' is null or not an object. Ah work for some microsoft to improve user experience.



Tags : microsoft, XP, search, Bug, Desktop