Google Search Hits Count number is missing on its results page

Last week I searched for the word "mintutes". I posted the screenshot below:

The day after, I searched again and surprisingly something went missing!
Compare the above screenshot and the below screenshot. Notice that the counter is gone (forever?)

3 mintutes setup wireless camera

Nice design but, oh dear, wrong spelling!

Interestingly, Google search reveals that there are nearly 1 million++ webpages containing the misspelled word "mintutes" (as at 21st Nov 2013)

Steps to remove WebCake Virus

It sounds soft, creamy, delicious and harmless. But this WebCake is an unwanted cake that pops up on webpages and offers you troubles instead of joy.

When you see the WebCake sign, do not click on the offers. They are just tricks.

1) If you are using Chrome, go to the menu/settings/extension and find an option to remove the WebCake extension. (You can simply type chrome://chrome/extensions/ in the URL box of Chrome Web Browser)

2) Check in your program list of your Control Panel if WebCake has been installed without your knowledge. Uninstall it if the program exists in the list.

Villa Nabilla vs London Riot

Tales of the abandoned structure that is Villa Nabila have been trending on social media, with netizens giving their take on the spooky Johorian site. Social media network is so efficient at spreading news, be it facts or fictions. This reminds me of the London Riot Rumours 2011 that spread on Twitter which I had discussed in my Computer Ethics class last year.

Villa Nabila news:
In the beginning: http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/11/18/villa-nabila-tales-from-the-net.aspx
In the end...:http://www.ammboi.com/2013/11/19/remaja-hilang-di-villa-nabila-ditemui-selamat/

London Riot rumours: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter

ePenyata Gaji Service Not Available

Someone asked me why did they get the error message "The service is unavailable"? when they try to access services from certain websites, e.g. the electronic payslip service like the above example.

I think most of layman nowadays could have answered "oh, there are many web users trying to access the same service at the same time, thus the server becomes tired and it goes down".

Sounds true, isn't it?

But, my college students would argue back "...computers are not human being, sir. Shouldn't they free from tiredness and boresome?"

Hmm, that is true as well.

So, what happens actually?

While computers do not feel tired, their capacity is restricted to their software and hardware limits. If you push it to the limit, it will eventually stop responding.

"But how come Gmail almost doesn't have that problem?

This mind-provoking question is interesting.

"Does that mean Google have unlimited resources of hardware and software capacity?"

Well, I think that is partially true.

While hardware and software are critical to the "availability" aspect of a web service, the creativity of the web application developers also contribute to the overall system performance.

I am not a civil servant and therefore not directly affected by this kind of problem. But I could imagine how disappointing it is when somebody who badly need a service being denied an assistance because of technical problem. Hopefully the developer could brainstorm more ideas on overcoming congested service requests problem like this.