Google Search – Domain is King? February 28, 2009
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Is Domain the King in the new Google Search – looks like it is almost there.
I must admit I had to tweak it abit to get it going. About 70% I got right the first time, for 30% of the terms I had to search.
| Domain is King? | ||||||
| Search Term | Default Domain | #1 Result | #2 Result | #3 Result | #4 Result | top 10 Result |
| Apple | apple.com | apple.com | ||||
| Buy | buy.com | buy.com | ||||
| Cars | cars.com | cars.com | ||||
| Dog | dog.com | dog.com | ||||
| Egg | egg.com | egg.com | ||||
| Flights | flights.com | flights.com | ||||
| God | god.com | god.com | ||||
| hotels | hotels.com | hotels.com | ||||
| Internet | internet.com | internet.com | ||||
| Jewelry | jewelry.com | jewelry.com | ||||
| King | king.com | king.com | ||||
| Law | law.com | law.com | ||||
| Movies | movies.com | movies.com | ||||
| NYC | nyc.com | nyc.gov | ||||
| Orange | orange.com | orange.co.uk | ||||
| Play | play.com | play.com | ||||
| Quest | quest.om | quest.com | ||||
| Rent | rent.com | rent.com | ||||
| Shoes | shoes.com | shoes.com | ||||
| Time | time.com | time.com | ||||
| USA | usa.com | usa.gov | ||||
| Virgin | virgin.com | virgin.com | ||||
| Wine.com | wine.com | wine.com | ||||
| X-ray | xray.com | xray-mag.com | ||||
| Yellow | yellow.com | yellow.com | ||||
| Zombie | zombie | zombie.com | ||||
Compare Infobase Current Portfolio February 22, 2009
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I owe this post to Compare Infobase, the company I founded the company I work for. I am often asked for a link to important e-businesses we own or manage and I try to put together a list for the person who is asking for it. We do have a website, but it just doesn’t keep pace with what all we are doing. So here is as straight as it can get -
Compare Infobase is in the business of developing, selling and maintaining e-businesses.
Some of the e-businesses which we currently own:
Maps of World – http://mapsofworld.com (MoW) MoW is one of the top ten mapping sites in the world. It is a matter of great pride for us that Mapsofworld.com has become a bigger online brand than the good old Rand Mc Nally. Yes today more people log into Mapsofworld.com from all over the world over those who log into Ranmcnally.com
The site is now a Quantcast top 1500 sites in the US and we are confident that it would break into top 100 sites within six months, maybe sooner. The site appeals to students and business alike, and people from all walks of website design recommend its homepage for reference on what a good homepage design should be.
Maps of India – Mapsofindia.com (MoI) is India’s first and number one Mapping site. Having retained its position as the premier site for mapping refernence in India since its inception – MoI continues to be a profitable and growing venture. The subdomains of MoI – http://business.mapsofindia.com and http://travel.mapsofindia.com have made a unique place for themselves in their respective verticals. MoI has been a mother site to many other vertical specific independent sites, these sites are now doing reasonably well in their respective verticals. http://IndiaEdu.com – http://Headlinesindia.com in News and http;//IndiaHousing.com in Housing have all been promoted by Mapsoindia.com and have been born out of one sub section of Mapsofindia.com
Headlines India – http;//HeadlinesiNdia.com
My Dear Valentine – http://MyDearValentine.com
Dgreetings – http://Dgreetings.com
Dil Khol Ke Bol – http://DilKholKeBol.com
UURL – http://UURL.in
Beauty Tips Hub – http://BeautyTipsHub.com
More to come:
Rediscovering Google February 14, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Google, SEO, Search Engines.Tags: Google, Google Search, Google Search study, Search Engines, SEO
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This one is a self-assigned project to understand how Google works for a “yet another surfer”
- Lovely adaptation for Valentine’s Day – Google logo played around looks good.
- Search term: Indian restaurant in San Jose ca
- Google Search or I’m Feeling Lucky
- I’m Feeling Lucky
- Wow – takes me to Yahoo local – http://local.yahoo.com/CA/San+Jose/Food+Dining/Restaurants/Indian+Restaurants
- I like what I see. I am done. 10/10
- Google Search
- I am happy with what I see, Local results and also with the first few listings. No spamming
- Results 1 – 10 of about 20,800,000 for Indian Restaurant in San Jose ca. is misleading – A higher degree of semantic search deployment may make results and selection more meaningful.
- Let me try…
- “Indian Restaurant” + “San Jose ca”
- Results 1 – 10 of about 15,100 for “Indian Restaurant” + “San Jose ca“. Great, this is a more realistic number of content pages which can exist for this particular search term
- Image search for the term in 12. doesn’t excite me at all. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=%22Indian%20Restaurant%22%20%2B%20%22San%20Jose%20ca%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi – maybe the SEOs don’t consider it worthwhile to work on keeping this one structured
- Let us opt for Maps for the term as in 12. Nice, neat, useful – http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22Indian%20Restaurant%22%20%2B%20%22San%20Jose%20ca%22&sa=N&hl=en&tab=fl
- News – fr the term as in 12. makes me no wiser – http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Indian+Restaurant%22+%2B+%22San+Jose+ca%22&hl=en&sa=N&tab=ln – This is not expected, there should be some news, maybe
- 20 adds and no results when you opt for the Shopping tab – http://www.google.com/products?sa=N&tab=nf&q=%22Indian%20Restaurant%22%20%2B%20%22San%20Jose%20ca%22 Is it right? – Yes and No. Yes because technically one doesn’t go to shop at restaurants. No because there are twenty advertisers showing up.
I am loving it. Would be back with more shortly…
Karin Hollerbach February 13, 2009
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It gives me pleasure to introduce Karin to all of you, Karin is new to Twitter but a fairly old hand when it comes to IT/ Internet businesses and VC funding. Karin is an exceptional human being who brings lot of rational approach to her work and life. I have known Karin for about two years and I believe she has an ability to value add. Let us all welcome – Karin Hollerbach, PhD Karin Hollerbach, PhD, founded and serves as CEO of Taku Group, a business and financing advisory firm, specializing in implementing significant growth transitions of privately held companies via strategic partnerships in the US, Europe, and Asia. Dr Hollerbach has served as CEO, President, EVP, VP Technology, VP Products, and other senior roles in for-profit and non-profit organizations spanning high-tech, software, and life sciences. She holds undergraduate degrees in EECS and in Molecular Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from a joint program at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, and an executive certificate from the Haas School of Business. Dr Hollerbach is a Director on the board of MIT�s Northern California alumni organization, serving close to 9,000 regional alumni/ae, where she also served previously as President. She serves on the boards of two privately held companies and previously served as Trustee of the flagship hospital in an organization of 40+ hospitals. Dr Hollerbach has traveled extensively, in North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa. She speaks multiple languages.
Smart Vs Sincere February 9, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Business Ethics, Business Leaders, IT Entreprenuers, Management, Satyam
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There is a saying in India – Who would save the boat if the captain decides to sink it? The Satyam Saga provided answer – The ecosystem. Yes it is the software industry ecosystem which came to the rescue with a supportive government playing a positive no self-interest role.
The IT industry has three parts: One which is run by Smart Souls, second which is run by Sincere Souls and the third which is run by Smart & Sincere Souls. If we do a division about 20% is run by Smart Souls, 79% by Sincere Souls and 1% by Smart and Sincere Souls. It is these 1% who have moved the industry and got it so far. So if 100% is divided between these three what about those who are neither of the three? Oh! You mean where does Mr. Raju fix in all this? He and his alike are visitors, Mr. Raju choose to portray that he belongs here and succeeded to a great degree in doing the same. Finally he has moved to his home, if all goes well he should stay there for rest of his life. They never belong, they can never belong here.
Over past few days I’ve been meeting lot of individuals some aspiring, some arrived and some struggling. The Satyam saga makes you think what would be this person like, say twenty years down the lane – Bill Gates, Larry Elison, Larry Page, Vinod Khosla, Steve Ballmer, Bernard Madoff or Ramalinga Raju of Satyam. The perspective has changed.
So who is Simar? Or What would Simar be like in 20 years – I have always considered F.C. Kohli of TCS as a role model, coming anywhere close to his persona would be a dream come true.
OOPS and Web Development February 7, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Dil Khol Ke Bol, Integration, OOPS, Snaps, Web Development
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About 20 years back I heard this term for the first time – OOPS – Object Oriented Programming Software. This term was expanded and Software was replaced with Systems. The approach was plain and simple, can we just go ahead and create components and once put together they build the software. All the components should be reusable and made in a fashion that they can be deployed at multiple disjoined places. But they were components, parts which had no life of their own. Why I am writing all this is essentially due to my experimenting big time the OOPS approach for serious Web Development. We at Compare are working on at least six technologies which are independently available and have their respective market leaders. We are creating those with a slightly different intent. The intent is that they should innovate around what they need to do and also they should integrate seamlessly with their other siblings.
So what is the challenge? The challenge is to make each part separately commercially viable, multi-deployment oriented and componnetized while integrating it absolutely without any UX issues with the nodal UI.
Where to use subdomins and where to use independent domains is a very minor challenge when compared to bigger issues of integration and independent functionality. We decided to have snaps.in independent but also want it be the default images site for DilKholKeBol.com UX as of now is pathetic at Snaps.in end UI is great at DilKholKeBol end. It is like a half air filled balloon.
Would keep on adding as and when we move ahead
The Sikh Look and Feel February 6, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Being a Sikh, Guru Gobind Singh, Khalsa, Sikh Turban, Sikhs
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I just got a call from a friend in New York he called up to say – “I am missing your look and feel” as the luck would have it I entered the Gurdwara Sahib immediately after that and Guru Sahib gave me the answer. The Shabad being recited was written by Guru Gobind Singh “Main Hun Param Purukh Ko dasa Dekhan Aayaoo Jagat Tamasha” It means the Tenth Guru says “I am a humble servant of the almighty, I have come to this world to see this massive act (read drama) being played out” The next lines gave me the answer – Jab Lag Khalsa Rahe Nyaara, Tab Lag Tez Dyon Main Sara, Jab Eh Gahe Bipran Ki Reet, Main Na Karu In Ki Parteet – “Till the time Khalsa (All follow Sikhs) supports the defined attire and looks different I will go all out to provide all my support and wisdom – However when the Khalsa (Sikh) becomes one amongst many and can’t be identified as a Khalsa (Sikh) I no longer protect/ represent him.”
Look part is all there, maybe the feel of Simar is different becuase of the Guru’s blessings. May be I think very differntly due to this.
Short URL Big Story February 3, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Microblogging, Short URL, TinyURL, UURL
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Since TinyURL.com came and became a big success short URL websites have come-up from literally nowhere. In the process of completing our Microblogging Platform, the challenge came up to have a built in short URL connectivity. Easy option to go ahead and link to TinyURL.com and get going, the option we choose – do a need analysis of what we want and create exactly to our specifications. Result our approach to a Universal URL. We call it UURL.in – Universal Uniform Resource Locator seven characters of its own and we get going with a five character assigned code. We also decided to built in features and opted for building a directory in the process. Beta version of UURL.in went live yesterday, taking us one step closer to our symbolic completion of the platform.
>>> Added on feb 6, 2009
What is the biggest challenge for a Short URL website. 100% uptime at all times. Other challenges/ priorities:
- Functionality has to be 100% at all times
- Features are important, but not at the cost of UX
- Minimu keystrokes – maximum action
- TinyURL does above 400 URL shortenings in a “good”minute stretch
More to come…
