Here are the top results on google for the characters {A-Z,0-9}
a - http://www.apple.com/
b - http://www.bhphotvideo.com
c - http://www.c-span.org/
d - http://www.dlink.com/
e - http://www.eonline.com/
f - http://www.fuckedcompany.com/
g - http://gmail.google.com/
h - http://www.h-net.org/
i - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
j - http://www.jenniferlopez.com/
k - http://www.kmart.com/
l - http://www.iht.com/
m - http://www.mibank.com/
n - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
o - http://www.oreilly.com/
p - http://www.sloan.org/
q - http://www.q4music.com/
r - http://www.r-project.org/
s - http://www.mcdonalds.com/
t - http://www02.sbc.com/ (at&t)
u - http://www.arizona.edu/
v - http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/
w - http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/
x - http://www.x.org/
y - http://messenger.yahoo.com/
z - http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
0 - http://www.business2.com/
1 - http://www.vh1.com/
2 - http://www.internet2.edu/
3 - http://www.3com.com/
4 - http://www.channel4.com/
5 - http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi….
6 - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
7 - http://au.yahoo.com/
8 - http://www.super8.com/
9 - http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Results for letters L, P & T did not have the letters in thier URL, but they were quite prominent in the page titles. When it comes to numbers, - 5, 6, 7 & 9 were not present in the URL!.
Wondering what algorithm is used to rank these pages!
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May 21st, 2006 at 01:50pm
After months of car search, finally found the right car to buy!!
Its a Tan colored 1998 Toyota Camry LE. Came to know about this car from the tpost.com last Friday. Called up the seller and got the details. Ran a carfax check on the car. It came out clean. We then went to Johnson City to see the car on Friday, did a test ride, and found it pretty neat. Then on Saturday, we took the car to a Auto shop to do a 30 point checkup and found that the Car was in pretty good shape. Closed the deal on Saturday itself.
However, the car needed some attention to its breaks. So, fixed it, and took the delivery today.
Some Specs :
- 1998 Toyota Camry LE
- Automatic
- 4D Sedan
- Tan Colored
- Power Windows
- Power Locks
- Cruise Control
Here are some snaps :
Looking forward for a safe and fun filled driving experience in United States!
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May 8th, 2006 at 11:50pm
Check out this article by John Dvorak on Microsoft. 100% true. Great read.
I am fully convinced that Microsoft is loosing focus on its bread and butter business - i.e., developing good software. Instead its spending most of its energy in territories like advertising and search. Leave those things alone! Yes, agreed that there is lot money involved in advertising, but that does not mean that you should jump into the other territories without having the capabilities.
Microsoft is too occupied and obsessed with what Google is doing and that’s gonna cost Microsoft a lot!. Where as, Google doesn’t bother about what Microsoft does!!.. The day it does, Google too would be in big trouble!
One of the points from the above article…
8. Preoccupation with Google. Microsoft is too easily distracted by successful companies who are not competitors. There is a deep-rooted belief that if a company like Google is successful, then they are an enemy per se. So the company obsesses on what Google is doing rather than concentrating on important Microsoft projects. Now Microsoft is about to do a deal with Yahoo to flank Google. This old-lady-like skittishness is unbecoming for a company this size.
Check this: Possible Microsoft & Yahoo merger article on slashdot.
More: Mr. Ballmer’s mail to Micro$oft folks.
I feel that the next couple of years would really decide Microsoft’s future!
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May 3rd, 2006 at 04:41pm
Just found that the Google result page format has changed! Specially while using IE. The change is not yet visible for Firefox. The links on top have moved to the left, and lot of space available on the right side of the screen (ads???).
Not sure how long this would last, may be Google could be doing some testing…… Anyway, here is as screen shot of the same…
Click to Zoom
Can you see these changes too ?
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December 30th, 2005 at 10:28pm
For the past 1 hour or so, google has been down. And it seems to be a major outage!.
Almost all google services are down including GMail, Google Search, AdSense, AdWords, Google Maps, API’s ….
Lots of discussion going at digital point forums thread : http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=36650
Have been getting the standard Google error message:
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds.
Update (after 1hr): Seems to be back online now.
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November 3rd, 2005 at 02:47pm
I was searching for information on the movie ‘The Island’, and i keyed in the terms in google, and the results were a bit unusual. Well, I am not sure if this is old one, but I am noticing this for the first time… Check out the screen shot :
Click on the above image to see the full screen shot
Right in between the search results, there is a section which reads …
‘See results for: The island movie’
Has anyone else seen this sort of results?
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September 17th, 2005 at 11:56pm
I guess someone just pressed the F5 button at Google. In the last couple of weeks we have seen some major changes in the services that Google offers. And more importantly, some new services too!
Quality of Search Results
Let me begin with the Quality of the search result. No doubt the quality is much much better now. I had cribbed about it sometime back, but now, I guess my cribs have been answered. The much talked about ‘trust rank‘ paper/algorithm seems to be working. Kudos ! :)
Google Talk
The biggest talk of this week has been the launch of Google talk instant messenger!. Wow. They have done a neat job here.
- Its based on open standards.
- Works out of the box with other clients that support the jabber protocol
- Is got a very clean UI, zero clutter. Full points here. Windows neatly arrange/dock.
- People say that even the voice quality is cool. I am yet to check it out.
- Very good integration with gmail.
- Oh.. yes.. Its still in beta :) So, we can expect a few more cool additions.
The major point here is, Google’s entry into VOIP scene. What next ? Video chat ? or a Google becoming a ISP ?? Rumors all around the net.
You can read more about Google talk over the Google blog.
Google Desktop 2
Other major release in the past week was the Google Desktop 2. Notice that its Google Desktop, and not Google Desktop Search. Clearly, it does a lot more than searching. This software too is a clear winner. Installed it over my home PC. The best part of this is its extensible, i.e., you can use plugins to add functionality to it!. Check out the huge plugins library here. If you are using AdSense, there is this cool plugin which shows your AdSene earnings right on your desktop. One more point to note here is, this software clearly portrays Google’s expertise in writing desktop application. It clearly shows that they are not just a web-based company. The UI is cool, and very intuitive.
A detailed review of Google Desktop is available here.
Making Sense of AdSense?
The best news here is Section Targeting. This comes as a major relief to many bloggers. Normally, the navigation text mess-up with the AdSense bot, and as a result, irrelevant Adsare shown on many blogs. It takes lot of tweaking for proper Ads to show up. But this feature is a major blessing. Section targeting allows us to suggest sections of our text and HTML content that we’d like Google to emphasize or downplay when matching ads to our site’s content. You can read more about this here.
The AdSense reporting too has been improved. We can also know the top search queries too. Btw, did you know that the Adsense Team has a blog called Inside AdSense?.
GMail
Did you that by the end of this year, GMail would be offering 3GB storage space?. Its growing by the day. One cool feature that was introduced recently was the “Send as” feature. Now you can send mail using some other From id. This is a neat and useful feature. And, finally, gmail is open to all.
Blogger
On the blogger front, they have introduced Word Verification for Comments, this would be a weclome addition for most bloggers to fight comment spam. Recently, they also launched a Word Plugin for blogger. So, you can directly blog from Word!
Google Sitemap
After using Sitemaps, I have noticed that my pages are indexed faster, and the traffic too has increased. Also, the AdSense performance is better. So, do use Sitemaps if you haven’t yet used it.
Google Blogs
Here is a list of official Google blogs.
So, this is google refresh ? .. if so, what would happen at the next google refresh ?
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August 25th, 2005 at 11:18pm
Well, I discovered this problem a month back. Reported it to yahoo customer care almost immediately. (could only find them after searching for some 15 mins). No response from customer care to date. So, let me put it up here.
Ok. This one is a minor bug, but is a major inconvenience. Not sure if this is specific to me only or to all. I have tested on Firefox browser only. Would be great if anyone can confirm this.
The Bug :
The problem is in the Advance Search feature, when you want to search only in specific folder. The search result returns mails from all folders, even when you have asked it to fetch results *only* from a specific folder.
Here is a screen shot :
Advance Search Results - Click to zoom in. (opens up in a new window)
The above shows the results of a advance search I made with the following parameters :
“Search All Unread mails in the BlogComments folder”
Dissecting the above screen shot
Point 1 : Unread mails only (folder selected BlogComments)
Point 2 : BlogComments folder has 8 unread mails only
Point 3 : 236 results returned!!!
Point 4 : Shows results from all folders.
Clearly, someone has not done testing as per the test plans! May be they thought it was too trivial to test it!
or
Have I goofed up somewhere?
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July 25th, 2005 at 10:25pm
