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• Google Hot Trends Indexing to Cool Down

  Posted: 05 Jul 2009 at 20:50 by jalaj

  Google Hot Trends that started somewhere in 2007, 15th May to be precise, has been inspiration to a large number of blogs and sites who created content taking hot keywords from the ones listed in it. While some sites produced remarkable content from it, many took to create brainless content mashing up the keywords and [...]

• What Exactly is a Good Search Engine?

  Posted: 28 Jun 2009 at 21:57 by jalaj

  Some times back I had carried a post where I showed how, for a particular term, Google and Yahoo both failed to give relevant result and surprisingly Live Search pointed to the correct site as the first result. This incidence showed me that definition for a Good search engine is relative and depends on the [...]

• Black Hat Adsense Techniques, This is how ‘they’ make money

  Posted: 27 May 2009 at 20:04 by jalaj

  How do ‘They’ make money from Google adsense? Well there are a lot of people who genuinely work hard to make money from Google Adsense in a fair way. What they earn is what they really deserve. This post is regarding ‘them’ who work the other way. They work hard but the other way. They work [...]

• I am back. Talking about jalaj.net

  Posted: 26 May 2009 at 19:16 by jalaj

  For quite sometime I had virtually no posts on this blog. And today when I sat down to write something, I was greeted by a parking page. Seems like I mis-spelt my domain name. But no, I did not. It was indeed a parking page on my own domain name. Oh God! I forgot to [...]

• Meet Heet

  Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 18:15 by jalaj

  Heet, is the name that we decided for our son. Since the name was to be decided according to zodiac sign, we had very few names to choose from. I initially had decided that whatever name we finalize should have corresponding .net domain available (after all each one us in my family have a [...]

• My son Dwij is now Big Brother

  Posted: 10 Apr 2009 at 11:10 by jalaj

  Dwij when he was 11 months old Me and my wife Bhumika have been blessed with a baby boy on 3rd April. While we all are happy, my son Dwij sees no limit to happiness [...]

• Nimbu Pani vendors get Ice from Morgues?

  Posted: 01 Apr 2009 at 01:23 by jalaj

  I hate forwarded mails that are sent without checking the correctness of the information supplied in it. Today I got an email forward which made me hate the thought of possibility of it being true. The mail said that the roadside vendors selling Nimbu Pani (Lemon Juice) procure ice from morgues! Attached news clip image [...]

• Relevant & Context Sensitive Ads. Really? – Jolie Madame & Mouthshut

  Posted: 12 Mar 2009 at 01:03 by jalaj

  Google delivers Context sensitive and relevant Ads on web sites using Adsense. This works fine in most of case but sometimes it gives out unexpected ads. Take for example the link ads below showing “Mosquito Repellent”, “Natural Repellent”, “Homemade insecticide” etc. Can you guess on which page these are showing up? I am sure you [...]

• Third Word That Ends with GRY – Jingry says Google Book Search

  Posted: 09 Mar 2009 at 02:34 by jalaj

  There is a popular puzzle that asks for three English words that ends with GRY , while first two are “Angry” and “Hungry”. If there is no catch in the puzzle the answer is “There is no third word”. Wikipedia points out that there are no such words currently in use but if you go [...]

• Google is Not Enough - TakeITlite

  Posted: 08 Mar 2009 at 07:39 by jalaj

  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 [...]

• Movies Related to Education

  Posted: 07 Mar 2009 at 00:22 by jalaj

  College ————— Yaadein Principal ————— Jaani Dushman Classes ————— Kabhi kabhi Canteen ————— Kabhi alvida na kehna Course —————- Godzilla Exams —————– Kalyug Examination hall ——– Chamber of Secrets [...]

• Coincidence se Coincidence tak

  Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 01:55 by jalaj

  How did Slumdog Millionaire win 8 Oscar Awards? A) Because they deserved it. B) Because they bribed Judges C) Because Judges gave marks based on hypes D) Because It was Written

• Installing Ubuntu Linux (Desktop)

  Posted: 24 Feb 2009 at 21:27 by jalaj

  After getting Ubuntu CDs I did not have to wait to see Ubuntu in Action as you do not need to install it to have a preview. Just insert the CD, boot from CD and select ‘Live Run’ when option for installations is asked for. Once I had checked that I could not keep  myself [...]

• Pappu Didn’t Dance Saala!

  Posted: 23 Feb 2009 at 00:35 by jalaj

  I don’t see too many movies, so if I am to prepare a list of movies that I missed it would be a long one. “Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na” was one that I missed. In fact I regret missing its star-studded premiere that was held at Oberoi Mall, Goregaon, just two kilometers from my [...]

• 3 Google Reader Features Most People Don’t Use

  Posted: 22 Feb 2009 at 09:33 by jalaj

  I am sharing here three features in Google Reader that people rarely use. Subscribe to an RSS without knowing its URL: Yes! You don’t need to know the URL to RSS for a site/blog. If that site/blog provides RSS feed it most probably carries a META tag in its page to point to that url. When [...]

• Friendly Short URLs in Yahoo Pipes

  Posted: 21 Feb 2009 at 07:40 by jalaj

  Yahoo pipes is the friendliest site when it comes to mashing up contents as RSS, CSV etc, but the URLs are not! For example if you what to check all pipes developed by me the url would be http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/person.info?eyuid=5liC_Uw5uGl4hZ0ufA– Similarly the most popular pipes among the ones that I publicly released the ‘Google Trends Tokenizer’ has a [...]

• Yeh Mumbai Shahar…

  Posted: 20 Feb 2009 at 00:26 by jalaj

  Long ago a movie was released that carried the title song which goes like this Yeh Mumbai Shahar Haadason ka Shahar hai, Yahaan Zindagi Haadason ka Safar hai, Yahaan Roz Roz har Mod Mod pe hota hai koi na koi… [...]

• Conficker Confiscates Microsoft’s Night Sleep! MS Offers $250000 for Cure

  Posted: 19 Feb 2009 at 02:27 by jalaj

  Microsoft recently announced a reward of $250000 to anyone who helps in locating the brain behind the worm Conficker aka Downadup. Millions of PCs got infected with this worm since October 2008 and there is no stopping even after Microsoft released the patch that removes the vulnerability exploited by this worm. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 on [...]

• Google PowerMeter

  Posted: 18 Feb 2009 at 01:10 by jalaj

  A time not too long ago we used to have power meters having aluminum discs. Then came along electronic meters and all people were forced to adapt the new meter at their own costs. People protested. Why should they pay for something that’s going to benefit just the electricity provider. And now it’s time [...]

• Microsoft Math 3.0

  Posted: 17 Feb 2009 at 02:14 by jalaj

  How do you define Maths : a joke defines it this way “Mentally Affected Teachers Harassing Students” Maths is a nightmare for many students and good night sleep for many. While you can get full marks without cramming a full problem, you get zero if you forget the steps required to solve the problem. May be, Microsoft [...]