Baidu does not index pages from my website

does baidu include only non-english or Chinese website to their index or baidu is language specific and includes websites from china and other related countries or only tld's with .cn or .hk etc? recently i was just checking whether my webblog appears on all the major search engine and was checking for what keywords do well to my amazement not even a single page of mine was included in Chinese search giant baidu though when i searched for programming and other stuff i can see baidu has indexed some of the english language and website from other countries, so next question is there any way that i can get my site listed in baidu?

though some people said we can submit our website by adding one or two pages with chinese content in our website and then submitting it to baidu here http://www.baidu.com/search/url_submit.html but i just submitted my site URL without any chinese content leaving it to baidu about the inclusion... so here is my chinese request to baidu 百度請包括我在您的搜索結果

any way just now submitted my blog URL to the baidu let see whether my website get indexed because china has 130million potential internet users using baidu so guys if you have a website do check whether your website is appearing in baidu if not submit your url.

why i hate new google image search ?

OMG!!! Do you like Google's new image search? i could not believe google is actually doing some of the things Bing way, first came the sidebar now image search awk! i dont know how many of you guys like the new image search layout of google personally to me it really stinks, very rusty and really cluttered to the eyes without much information unless and until we hover the mouse on top of the image..

new google image search layout

when ever google introduces new look or layout there was always an option to revert back to old version now a days google is not including any such things during release of new layouts i think google has changed its caption from "Don't be evil to Be Evil"

though i am not saying changes is bad but changing too much in a un-user-friendly bing way really sucks, google image search results are sorted according to page in a single screen but some times i feel it takes a lot of bandwidth and time consuming and lot of page refreshes are the byproduct of this new design.

old image search on chrome
what ever it is changes are done and google never reverts back its better to accept and move on... and between i was amazed to see that the new image search is not reflected in googles own browser google chrome so guys what do you think of googles new image search do you like it?

DVD writer not reading burned dvd discs :solved

did your DVD drive stopped reading DVD's all of a sudden but reading cd's normally here is the solution? recently my sony DVD writer AW-Q170A stopped reading DVD's which it burned though same DVD's worked and was able to read in different computers i was really baffled why DVD writer was not able to read the DVD which was written by itself and another weird thing is my DVD burner was reading DVD-ROMS and other Movie DVD's but was not reading DVD's burned by itself and other computers?

When i googled for the solution i was amazed to see that i am not alone and there are tons of people with the same issue each one of them discussing possible solution but none of them seems to work so after 5 days of frustration i was able to figure it out what was the problem see below things i tried

first of all when i googled i came to know below are some of the situations that might cause this issue

--> Few said laser is dead or dirty lens and suggest to clean the lens
--> Some said its the problem with upper and lower filter in the system so editing registry might solve the issue
--> Some said windows updates might cause this kind of issues
--> and many said its due to service pack 3 problem
--> and very few were talking about frimware updates.

First i thought it was the problem with some windows update so i formatted my system and installed a fresh copy of XP with service pack3, but issue remained the same next i thought this might be due to service pack3 and formatted the system again and installed with a fresh copy of windows with service pack2 but the issue remained the same then i thought it might be the actual problem with dvd burner itself, so as the last try i tried to update the frimware i googled for sony dvd drive frimware updates i got the frimware for my dvd burner in their site www.sony-optiarc.us i found the frimware updates for my dvd burner model downloaded it prayed before running and restarted the system atlast my DVD writer was normal again reading dvds normally.

thanks for the guys on the web who hinted me about this, and between if anyone of you reading this facing the same problem and want to upgrade the frimware be warned not update the frimware if you are not the professional because incorrect version of frimware update might permanently damage your DVD burner making it worthless.