The Big G and Semantic search: Commercial success vs QoS

As years passed, it grew and the world took notice: the PhD. project by Larry page and Sergey Bin that eventually became the fastest growing project ,so fast that the Goliath at play,Microsoft ,had to take notice even though its market capitalisation was much much more than Google's.

Not very long ago i read an article on Google effort on semantic search and the effort it is putting in.But in practice I dont find anything...really.In fact I am feeling that the percentage relavance of the search terms to the the search results is sometimes alarmingly low.

Example:
Do a search for Microsoft and lo! the third result is about Internet Explorer 5.5 and the change in its URL.

And something more annoying (for me atleast).A search for India would give the first result as http://indiaimage.nic.in with the Wikipedia entry coming in second and the link we all hope should come first- the National Portal of India-http://india.gov.in coming in a very distant 7th.

And Google needs to get rich ,may be, but that does not mean Google ads give extraordinarily STUPID results.The search for 'the most searched word on The Net' (I could easily mention it if not for the fear of Mighty G listing my page in 'blog search' results for The Word) would get you a Google Ad for Children's furniture.That was a month ago...now that its a month let me check it out for you and ......Ahem! The results:
1.Girls Speak Out( Nothing explicit about this)
2.Hypersexuality -supposedly a research.
3.Something banned on EBay (Google does a good job here.Call the police please.Help the country ;-) ,and yourself)
4.Racing , Action and Cricket gaming titles.
5.Web Photo Album software.

Well,if Google calls this 'effort' and 'semantic search' ,then I guess it would get a little unhappy for those celebrating GOOG hitting $400 on NASDAQ.

As Google gets bigger and expectations grow for compulsive Googlers like me(One line explanations later,even for that QoS),it needs to work harder and smarter.

GoogleBot better watch out as Excavator is workin real hard to get close and might succeed.

Note:This article is essentially over except for the tech-uninitiated.Bah!I meant if you have understood each and everyword, please continue by clicking here.

The Explanations :
QoS- Quality of Service.
compulsive Googler-A person who has to use Google even for Google-bashing.
GoogleBot-Google's search engine(prefer calling it Google's spidey)
Excavator-Microsoft's spidey ;-)

As I have already said, all study made using Google.So commenters might help me providing an alternative.

Ultimate Naruto Fan Flash 4

The Fourth Ultimate Naruto FanFlash made by snowdragon. Got it from Google video.Need not mention that I am a fan of Naruto.

No time for blogging exams on my neck(?)

Hi readers(the few people who read this are close enough to b eaddressed very informally), there have been no posts for a long time and this is getting me into frust (KGP lingo for 'frustration').

What can I do, absolutely helpless.Four class tests and three vivas in 9 days dont help. Infact the heavy schedule has caused my ill health.I have recovered now only to face the end-sems beginning 20th Nov.

So it is a no-brainer that a post beginning like this would only imply no further posts till I finish my end-sems.

Some news about a website which I'm enrolled:
Indianwebmaster.org a forum site had a 'hack-attempt' the site is up for a database update .Here is the mail I received.
"
As you may be knowing that We'd a hack attempt on our forum, and coz of that we lost most of the data....

So I need to do a database backup...and I hope i'll get most of the things back...but all the new users who registered after that date will need to register again.

Regards.
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"

So, I'll have to see if I need to register again.

And for guys/gals having blogs, go check out Autopinger.com. It says it has tied up with ZingFast.com to their services so that your blog will get more exposure. Well, as far I'm concerned, "Unlucky - no time to blog" ;-(

Ganguly hitz a ton-I'm loving it

06/11/06-Today

I finished my electrical viva-not exactly screwed up nor a hit but satisfactory.

The only news cheering me up today is that my hero- Sourav Ganguly hit a century and showed that it's still not over.

He hit an unbeaten 118 against North Zone in the Duleep Trophy match today. Along with Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Deep Dasgupta , he shared valuable partnerships to frustrate the North's bowlers who earned only to wickets for all their efforts today.

The match apart ,it is a hope for me that he'll return for the World Cup.With the more-than-disappointing performance in the Champions Trophy , it is definitely a chance.Atleast , I think so.So hope for the best and leave the rest.

Hmm, good point made.

The Ga(y)le that swept the South Africans away