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Google Baba Ki Jay Part 3

When a was a newbie web designer sooooo many years back, we used to be very excited when we counted so many 'hits' on our website. One of the first ever websites in India on trekking 'indiantreks.com' was made by me way back on 1998-99 when the Internet was so new. We used to do a lot of things to get in the top 10 in the search ranking, but at that time it used to be Yahoo and not Google. The spiders used by search engines used to primarily look at 3 things: 1. The keywords in the metatags 2. The text in your page 3. The number of backlinks We used many tricks to get into the top 10.... One was to have text and links in the same colour as that of the page. This kept the text hidden on the browser, but the spiders were fooled into thinking that the page had a lot of backlinks. Second was to spam the meta tags with lots and lots of keywords, again for the spiders to take notice I had paid Rs.3500/- to book the indiantreks domain, but as domains became chea

Google Baba Ki Jay - Part 2

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Big Brother Google is Watching You! All the time. How do you think Google gives you fairly accurate traffic information on Google Maps? Initially, Google Maps was used as just that - like a map. To find your way in an unknown place, or to know the distance between two places. But some time in March 2012, Google developed an algorithm that measured the density of devices logged in to Google along with tracking the location based on GPS. So if you are logged in to Google on your mobile phone, tablet, or your computer or laptop, Google knows exactly where you are located. This does raises privacy issues. What if you do not want to be tracked by Google? What if you don't want Google to know your location? Well, Google lets you opt out. Here's a link to know how to do just that: http://bgr.com/2014/08/28/google-maps-location-tracking-opt-out/ Very recently, Google Maps has introduced a feature to actually let your contacts track your location. You can share your locati

Google Baba Ki Jay - Part 1

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Let me tell you a story I read when I was in the 3rd or 4th standard, probably in Chandamama the children's monthly. A greedy man prays, does tapascharya , and pleases God. God appears before the man and asks him his wish. " Var maango, vatsa ", God says. The man says, "I want to ask you a few questions before I wish for anything". "Go ahead", God says. "We are so small, so all that is in heaven must be bigger than here on earth?" God replies in affirmative. So the man asks, "How much is your 1 kilo?" "It is like million tons." "And one acre?" "Like a continent" "And 1 litre"? "Like one of your oceans." Pleased, the man thinks for a while and says, "God, I am not greedy. I wish for just one acre of land, and only 100 rupees. Please grant me my wish." God says, "Sure Vatsa , I will certainly grant you your wish. I will make the arrangements, and wi

I give you what you want!

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I give you what you want, and I don't have the time, nor the inclination (pun intended) to think about what you, the society needs. Like, I think you should also start thinking, instead of blaming me, the media, for all the unhappy, sad, evil, and all the wrongdoings in the society. Instead of brainlessly switching on channels and watching programs which insult, degrade, make fun of other people, and supposedly encourage superstition, maybe you should just go out, take a walk (pun intended again). You think I should have some social responsibility, which I do agree. And I do give you programs that are beneficial to the society. But I have so many people working with me. You think all people who work for me should go hungry to bed? They don't deserve increments? They don't have family responsibilities and ambitions? Well, you are wrong. Being socially responsible cannot come at a cost of my family and my ambitions. Like, I am the media. I am a business. I am here to