I am a Software development professional. When not at job, I alike to read books and online technical articles.
I like technical challenges. They keep me engrossed and busy most of the times.
I am Certified Scrum Master and active in Agile and Scrum Communities. I often attend various conferences and am an active blogger on subjects like Agile, Scrum, current technological and Internet affairs etc.
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Once upon a time there was an experiment in Google called Google Suggest (This link redirects to Google Auto Complete which is now default feature of Google searches across the globe).
I liked the concept since it brought promise of proactively helping the user to chose the right content.
However, you should expect more from a devil’s advocate like me.
Exploring Google Keywords (again a labs feature that is now part of Google Adwords product), I realized it is not only user’s comfort that suggested Google to suggest the search terms.
If you start typing “used cars”, Intelligent Google floods you with suggestions like “used cars in delhi”, “used cards in noida”, “used cars in chennai”.
WTF!!! I meant to search for “used cars or new car”. No problems anyways, since Google thinks I am not part of majority that would eventually type the terms suggested by it.
However, if you go to Google keywords, and search for keyword suggestions for “used cars” with India geography, you would find that the same terms appear as keyword suggestion that were thrown in Google search.
And no surprises: these keywords are the ones which come under “high competition” segment.
High competition segment keywords are costliest keywords to buy on Google Adwords.
If Google does not provide suggestion to users in Google search, there would be far more keywords, all of them combined fetching far less revenue to Google than the “high competition” keyword thrusted upon us.
Looking at this, why shouldn’t we assume that Google is trying to find ways of increasing prices of certain keywords, bringing more money the Biggest advertising agency on the globe?
Food for thought?
Yup, we were told it is either Shahrukh or sex, but a look at India’s internet reveals that Shahrukh is way behind in demand.
For instance, take a look at rediff.com’s homepage of today:
As you can guess by no activity on my blog for last 1 year, I have been quite busy on personal front to write blogs.
However now I am trying to give some time to this blog.
Will try my best to be regular this time.
.. or is it Android?
Nokia announced the biggest job cut in its history sending shock-waves to Finland’s economy.
Windows platform as an alternate of Symbian looks weird choice, but then it was a war between Google and Microsoft, and MS seems to have won the battle for now.
That being said, Nokia might have to include Android phones in its kitty in future. Today no company can ignore Android if it does not have a strong alternative in place.
Once upon a time, were Lee-hesh known to exhibit unparalleled game of doubles tennis that was unconquerable by the contemporaries. In their era, they were a force to reckon with, they were a fear for the opponents. Now they have teamed up after a long time of 9 years, and after some warm up tourneys, they produced great result in Melbourne.
Having participated in the last edition, I am eagerly awaiting this year’s conference. The announcement suggests it will be held in Feb’11.
This year organizers seem to have tightened their belt to make it the biggest Agile affair in India. Having partcicipated in some Agile conferences across India, I can surely say they have been able to attract the largest audience and some very good speakers.
They have launched their brand new website and are also active on Facebook, Twitter.
On adopting good promotion strategy this time, I would say Better late than never 
.. and this one too: http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
NJoy!!
Nice collection this one: http://www.junauza.com/2008/01/top-50-linux-quotes-of-all-time.html
I tried to express my pain of Google monopoly in one of my posts.
Today I came across an excellent video which shares my sentiments.
Have a look and enjoy:
