Archive for May, 2010

PQWL status on Railway ticket

PQWL is one of the many Waiting List types that appear on reservation tickets. Practically speaking this is a Waiting List. Technically, there’s a difference between PQWL, CKWL, GNWL etc. The total seats available for reservation on a train are divided among different quotas. There’s the ladies quota, tatkal quota and general quota. Some trains [...]

CKWL status

An attempt to answer the question – “Will my CKWL x ticket get confirmed?”

Identify visits from Google Real time search

Recently Google released its real time search feature. If you want to figure out from your Apache access logs which results are coming from the Google real time search, then you have to look at the referrer field. The Google search referrer url will have a param tbs=rltm in it. rltm stands for real time.