We recently reported the launch of In.Com and how it will be one of the most visited Indian portals in the time to come, however Google begs to differ.

You don’t hear about bugs in Google often so enjoy the moment. Google hasn’t identified In.Com as a domain name, it takes "in.com" as a TLD or the extension to a domain name. e.g. tnerd.in.com. When we wrote about In.Com first on TNerd we quitely touched upon the issue of Google not indexing however we did not dwell into it much as it was not very clear then.

As few pages from In.Com have been indexed, the issue is much more visible. Searching for In.Com’s pages in Google index shows pages only from the sub-domains e.g. kinng.in.com/ - Sing is Kinng Contest site. Though it is a subdomain Google indexed it identifying it as main domain.

If this bug is not fixed Google will never index pages under in.com but the chances are that these pages will be indexed under www.in.com as it treats www as a domain.

In.Com should escalate this bug to Google through Google webmaster central and this should be taken care off.

[Update: 12th Aug] Thanks for pointing that out John!

But when I recently tried to access the live news from IBNlive.com, I couldn’t find it online. Disappointed, I started searching for other sources and found CNNIBN Google Desktop Gadget.

This Gadget is a 100 times better than what IBNLive offered as it sinks in with the Google Desktop and does not require you to keep your browser open and on top of other windows.. and what not. This is another feather in the cap for the IBNLive’s technical team.

What surprised me was that this Gadget was launched almost a year ago and the download count didnt even cross 500. I certainly think there are many more tech people who’d like to keep tabs on whats happening around them.

Following Image shows how CNNIBN Gadget fits in to Google Desktop and what it looks like.

Click here to download Google Desktop and here to download CNNIBN Gadget to watch CNNIBN Live online.

This lets you get the latest on your Google talk by sending a message to the IBNLive GTalk Buddy.

All you have to do is add "im@ibnalerts.com" to your friends list on Google Talk, thats all. Now whenever you want to know whats happening around the world just send a message "Top" to im@ibnalerts.com and get the latest news delivered at your Google Talk.

Another option to get the latest news at regular intervals is by subscribing to the news. Message "s top" to im@ibnalerts.com.

IBNlive.com has been one of the most advanced online news portals in India and the entire credit goes to the the technical team of IBNLive (kudos to you guys!). It would’nt be wrong if I say that they are setting new standards in online news media and rest of the news portals are playing the catch up game. Over the period of years IBNLive has received several awards which are testamonials to IBNLive teams success.

Back to the IBNLive Google Talk Buddy.

These are the keywords you can use:

top: Gets you all the latest stories from IBNLive
sports: Gets you all the latest sports stories from IBNLive
biz: Gets you all the latest business stories from IBNLive
ent: Gets you all the latest showbiz stories from IBNLive
search: Search IBNLive’s stories (Example: "search Euro 2000")
subscribe: Shows you the ways in which you can subscribe to or manage alerts

Once you add im@ibnalerts.com to your list. Status will continue to show as "invited" but you can start using it rightaway.

Following is the promotional guide which runs you through the steps of using this feature.

Visit IBNLive to know more