(Raj Thackeray’s) Quotes in Google News
Just happened to catch the search term ‘Raj Thackeray’ in Google Trends. Since India has its own version of Google trends at http://www.google.co.in/trends seeing the term in US (and other countries’) trends page astonished me… so I logged on to Google News to see if there was some large news and more than the news I was surprised by the Quotes section on the top of the page stating one of Raj’s quotation.
A click on the link on Raj’s name produced a page full of quotes related to Raj (said by him as well as those targeting him) stating number of occurrences of each one in different News sources.
Must admit that Google is master not only in Searches but searching out quotes from the news material (or the quotes are manually picked? any ideas?”
Don’t Worry, Simply Marry
Who is She?
Is she Raima? (pic on the right)
or is Richa ! (pic at the bottom)
Did you notice that the pics of same girl. and named differently, are from the same site simplymarry.com. While the first one is from a banner ad, the second one is on registration page that shows up on clicking the ad.
What’s there in the name !! Simply Marry !!!
This blog gets Google Sitelinks
What are the criteria based on which Google provides Sitelinks for a particular site/blog? Honestly I never understood it. But today when I casually searched for term ‘jalaj’, the sitelinks too showed up in the search results.
This revelation did boost my morale and made reconsider start publishing to this blog again which has been inactive for long and even crossing a big milestone of 1 million page views failed to make me sit again posting.
The Google Webmasters tools include all the current site links and nothing more and allows me o block any address from showing up on sitelinks. I would have loved to see some other posts on sitelinks rather that a few that make no sense currently.
When do sitelinks appear? I guessed that it might be keywords for which my blog appears on the top, but this assumption failed when I tried searching for ‘Downloading Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469′ and ‘Windows Update Agent 5.8.02469′ which throws this blog on the top of search results. And for information this is the highest viewed post on this blog registering thousands of pageviews each day.
That’s all for now and you can expect more posts coming up.
Randy Pausch Health Update
I was shocked to see term “Randy Pausch Death” on the Google Trends. So was it all over? As per his health updates, it seemed unlikely and thus I searched Google News and found the trends to be for rumours.
Those who wish to get the latest updates please access his Health Update Page instead of searching on Google.
I found a very cute page where Randy was taking care of the three kids at Home when his wife was out in Spain. Randy here posted a few pics of there activity that day. Most humorous pic is the one where Randy is with the children holding a newspaper. The pic is titled “The Kids are Still Alive” and description on side says
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Any hostage taker worth his salt knows you need to send a photo with today’s newspaper to prove the hostages are still alive.
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When SMS turns into Spam Messaging Services
Doctor, Engineer or Actor! Which profession suits you the best? To find out sms JOB (Your Name) to 51515 E.g.: JOB Raj to 51515. Rs.3/sms
This is a sample SMS that is delivered to its customers by Vodafone’s (Mumbai, India) marketing department. I wonder if there really are people who use these type of sms services that are far from truth. Say I send JOB SHAHRUKH what job suggestion will return back. ACTOR? Then I think Vodafone is suggesting that everyone who bear name Amitabh, Shahrukh or Aamir are best suited to work as actor. If the returned job suggestions is NOT ACTOR then we should say to our very Shahrukh Khan “Hey you are misfit in what you are doing! Why don’t you try something else”
What do you say?
Photo Courtesy: pouwerkerk
Here are some more interesting SMSs
Kya aap romantic hain? Kaisi hai apki romantic life life? Janiye yeh sab! Sms VAL (ur Date of Birth) to 53131. For eg. VAL 25041982 to 53131. Rs3/sms
Ab check karein kitna pyaar hai do logon mein. sms SOUL (your name) (your partners name) to 53131. E.g. SOUL Saif Kareena to 53131. Rs3/sms
Just imagine what will happen if your wife sends your date of birth for the first sms above to recieve “HIGHLY ROMANTIC” and your’s and her name for the second sms to get result “TOO LOW”!!!… guess ! guess guess!!!!
Some more….
Smart, Intelligent, hard working aur kya khubiyan hein aap mein! SMS NAME (apna naam) to 51515 par aur janiye apne baare mein. E.g. Name Salman to 51515. Rs3/sms
Red, Green, Yellow, Black or Blue! Aapka favourite colour batata hai hai aapki personality ke baare mein. SMS COLOR to 53131 Rs3/sms
Aap ke sone ke tareeke se pata chalti hai aapki personality. Sms SLEEP to 51515 par aur janiye apni personality ke baare mein. Rs3/sms
Oh! So there are so many ways to know about your own personality! Which one should I use to know about myself?? Why not all three!!! Here we go!!! … Seems like I have Multiple Personalities (disorder) 
Here are some more…
Jaaniye Love Guru se 10 golden rules jinse aap jeet sakte hai kisi bhi ladki ka dil. SMS karein RULES to 51515. Rs3/sms
Har insaan ke andar chupa hua hai ek leader. Aapke andar ka leader kaun hai. SMS karein IDOL (apna naam) to 51515 par. For eg: IDOL Kareena. Rs3/sms
Feels like Partner-2 and Leader-102…
Got bored reading all these above messeges? Hey don’t forget these are samples from what I get each day!!
If you are one of those using these services remember all these SMSs have a single thing in common and that’s “Rs3/sms”… so whatever be the content, intention is the same! Increase your bill or decrease your talktime, Rs.3 at a time.
Jaago Grahak Jaago!
Change is the Only Constant
Today was a very hectic day for me as I was busy shifting home. In Mumbai if you are living in a rented house then you are bound with an 11-month contract after which you need to vacate. Thankfully I got an opportunity to extend the contract period and today was the day when 22 months completed. Another extension did not happen and after more than a month long search for a flat in the vicinity, succeeded in getting one which was handed over to me just today… How I wish I could have lived at the same location for another term, but rightly said “Change is the Only Constant”.
Today was also the day when this blog crossed half-a-million pageviews mark. At this juncture I was thinking on whether the blog was on right path and answer that I got was a ‘NO’… I read somewhere “I Think, Therefore I Blog”. This blog was meant to be a technical blog and continued to be technical as long as I was thinking Technical and could think of enough subjects to blog on. Now my thoughts are no longer purely technical and thus it’s time I bring a little (or may be big) changes which require that this blog discontinue being branded as technical.
From now on I would be blogging “Random Thoughts” instead. This way I hope to get regular in posting.
Takethosepictures.com - Revelations
I was just notified about TakeThosePictures.com .. so another of spam sites coming, I thought and putting the url in address bar opened the site. The site looked like something I had seen before… and yes that indeed looked exactly like and seems to be from the makers for crazypicsonline.com. The way the background image was reduced to grayscale and then blurred and the login section placed in the middle, the borders everything was exactly the same.
Then I looked closely, the pictures in background felt familiar, the pics the text below them… that was a screenshot from images.google.com!!! What an hard work for creating a site
BEWARE : THE SITE TAKETHOSEPICTRUES.COM IS A SCAM TO GET MORE EMAIL ADDRESSES
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