Google says Samachar.com may harm your computer
Update: Google had flagged samachar.com as malware site. However, this is not the case anymore.
Goto Google.com. Search for “India News.” Google flags Samachar.com as harmful to your computer.
Filter news headlines based on updated time
Last week we rolled out a new feature that allows our users to filter news on any page based on the time period (<4 hours, 4-8 hours, 8-12 hours and >=12 hours) it was updated on the news source website. We believe that this feature improves usability of our website to a great extent. Colour-coding allows visitors to easily distinguish old news from the new ones. Frequent visitors can quickly glance through the page and read the most recent news and ignore the rest.
Google Ads
We have now increased the number of google ads that are being displayed on a page. The ads blend very well with the content and may not annoy the user much.
It may not be a good thing for our users, but we need to increase our revenue as well. This additional money is required to add new features to Sumanasa.com. As always, our aim is to attract more users and retain existing users.
Website Templates and Wordpress Blog Themes
You will find all the open source website templates released by us here: http://www.opendesigns.org/profile/?user=Sumanasa
You can download our wordpress themes here:
- http://themes.wordpress.net/other/rounded-corners/3915/sumanasa-design02-10/
- http://themes.wordpress.net/other/left-sidebar/3830/sumanasa-design01-10/
- http://themes.wordpress.net/other/right-sidebar/4081/sumanasa-design03-10/
You can also download blog themes based on our designs here:
- http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3272/paddy-harvest/
- http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/3459/linux-blog-10/
If you like any of them, you can download and use them as you wish.
If you own a blog and visit sumanasa.com regularly, we request you to provide a link to our website on your blog. This will aid and encourage continued development of sumanasa.com.
New Look for Sumanasa.com
We are very excited about completing the rollout of new design for our website.
Hindi news is now separated into unicode and non-unicode sources. Unicode is displayed in text (legible only on IE at this point in time) whereas non-unicode remain as image rollovers. A couple of bugs still exist and will be fixed as soon as possible.
As always, our effort has been to deliver high quality products and make users’ life easy. We welcome your suggestions and comments.
Website Templates
Released two website templates under the Creative Commons License: Fresh Air & The Chosen One.
New tech news resources
Added CXOToday.com and Techtree.com to Sci-Tech section.
Adding news resources
Added Oneindia and Monsters and Critics headlines to India News. More is better!
Using RSS Feeds
Switched to RSS feeds (instead of html pages) as source of news headlines for a few news sources for the first time in the 6-year history of Sumanasa.com. Although RSS feeds are more structured source of news headlines, we still prefer crawling HTML pages for the following reasons:
- Many Indian websites still don’t provide RSS feeds.
- RSS feeds may not be updated as frequently and as quickly as their HTML counterparts.
- Headlines in RSS feeds are sometimes sorted on date and time rather than by their importance.
- Not all headlines are listed in RSS feeds.
Holler back if headlines from your favourite website is still not available on Sumanasa.com.
Adding Hindi news resources
Added VOA Hindi to our Hindi News pages. Added DW-WORLD.DE Hindi and Urdu to regional news page. Have enough Hindi unicode resources now; should we switch from image rollovers to text?