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Google is Not Enough – TakeITlite
Q: What’s the similarity between a NGO and IT Industry?
A: Everyone knows they exist but why… no one knows!
This is one of the few Q&As that generate a smile on your face. I received this in a forwarded mail. The mail contained some jokes on a aesthetic image and was titled “TakeITlite – A daily dose of refreshment”. If you have been reading this blog for a long time you might already know how seriously I take forwarded mails. But this mail containing IT related jokes was little different as I grew interested in getting this dose of refreshment daily and opened Google to search for its origin. Did I forget to point that while the mail had all copyright notices and branding, there was no site address on it.
I checked Google for all combinations of TakeITlite and Daily Dose of Refreshment but failed. The blogs on Blogspot and Rediffland were not the source. From the fifth result this term even seemed to have gone into Google Hot Trends somewhere in February. I checked that page too but still got no clue of the source. Like most of people I believe that “if it’s not on Google, it doesn’t exist” and stopped searching…
Now a few weeks later I received another forwarded mail (too bad! I thought I could get it daily) and this time I kept my belief aside and on again failing to locate the source of mail from Google, decided to search on other search engines. I used Yahoo and found that search result was polluted by multiple sub-domains of a single domain.
Lastly I searched in Live.com and it returned only 4 results for term takeitlite and to my surprise, the site on first result did not occur in any of the other engines, the reason is visible if you visit the site. It is the official site but under construction containing a single big image and a few words “Magazine: Web Experience: Events & Advertisements” with no links. But at least I found out what I was looking for!
At last I realized that Google is not enough. If you are not receiving required results better go ahead and give other search engines a chance. May be it can help you.
By the way, how many of you used live.com in last week or last month or last year? I did not for months, but now will check it once in a while. And did you hear that Live Search is soon going to give way to Kumo.com, Microsoft’s new search engine with improved design and results. I will write more about it later.
