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Getting Listed in Google Search

Day before yesterday I was damn thrilled since my blog was getting listed in google search. I searched using various combinations and some or the other posts on my blog would be shown as the result of the google search. However, today mysteriously google has decided not to list my blog. I tried using the same words for which my blog was listed only day before yesterday but invain. I somehow need to understand how the search engine behaves.

I had used the first technique of the below mentioned 3, around a few weeks back to get listed on google searches.

1. Submit Direct To Google
The first method is to submit your web site via Google's free submit your site form. Just submit your home page and Google's crawler, Googlebot, will crawl the rest.
However, Google does not add all submitted URLs to their index, and there is no guarantee as to when, or if, your site will be indexed.
2. Get Linked From A Site That Google Crawls
The second method is to get a site that Google already crawls to link to your site. So when Google recrawls the web site, it will find the link to your site and crawl and index it as well.
This is Google's preferred method of finding sites to index.
To get another site to link to yours, simply look for a site that links to your competitors and ask them to link to yours. You may have to offer a link back to their site in exchange.
You may like to read my link popularity article, "How To Quickly Improve Your Link Popularity." In this article I show you how to find link exchange partners.
3. Submit Your Site To The Yahoo! Directory & The Open Directory Project Index
The third method is to submit your web site to the Yahoo! Directory and/or Open Directory Project index, which is owned by Netscape.
As far as I know, this is the only guaranteed method of getting into the Google index.
Google has agreements with Yahoo! and Netscape to include the sites indexed in their directories in the Google index. So submit your site to either, or both (recommended), of these directories.
For more information, visit Yahoo!'s How to Suggest Your Site page and the Open Directory Project's How to add a site to the Open Directory page.
Once your site is included in either of these directories, it will appear in the Google index in about 4 to 8 weeks.

Esha Darling

As Good As It Gets - One of my best movies

(From left to right) Helent Hunt, Jack Nicholson, and Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets (1997).

Jack Nicholson(Melvin), is simply too good in this Movie. The best line in the movie is "You made me want to be a better man."

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs)

A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process with unknown parameters, and the challenge is to determine the hidden parameters from the observable parameters

One of the best place to learn about Hidden Markov models is

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/roger/HiddenMarkovModels/html_dev/main.html

आधा अधूरा

Well, "आधा अधूरा" is not the theme of my painting. It's the status of my painting. :)

An Evening in my society!

At 7:00 pm, my mind reminded me about the promise I had made to myself about trying to keep fit by swimming regularly. I pushed myself and got out of my house. As I went down in the elevator I had to give those usual put on fake smiles to strangers standing besides me. Only a few years back this was not the case. It was not considered rude to totally ignore the presence of any stranger standing next to you. But I guess this is the U.S of A culture which is slowly getting imbibed in the educated elite of India. People in Indian cities now seem to smile or even say a "hi" to people they are seeing for the first time in their office, societies, gym, during walks etc. I don't know why but this smile or "hi" is generally accompanied by a small nod of the head. This is a slightly toned down version of what happens in U.S. People suddenly pop up the question "How you doing?" and the other stranger responds "Good. And you?". The Indians, who have failed miserably to respond to this kind of greeting from an American stranger during their virgin visit to U.S are somehow trying to pratice the same at home in India. Why are they doing this? Well, the reasons could be many. One, I strongly believe is that they genuinely like this concept of treating even a stranger as fellow human being and granting him a smile rather than the suspicous Indian look. Other one could be teaching back here what they gravely misunderstood back in US. Any Indian who lands in the US for the first time is taken a back by the greetings received from strangers in the office, elevator, even on roads, malls, parking lot and basically every damn place one can think off. After a few silent confused look kind of response, he learns to say Good. Soon, our man is taught by another fellow Indian, who has been there in the US for slightly longer time, that he needs to ask back the same question by saying "Fine. And you?". Only then does our man realise that all this time, people would have perceived him as rude. Although getting this culture in India is fine, even indianizing it with a nod of the head is fine, the thing I don't like is the selective use of it. This selective use renders us hypocrites. For some reasons, we don't seem to give the same smile to the watchman or a labourer or any other person whom we perceive as doing a "low" job. How often have we noticed - the way people shout at waiters, the way they talk with taxi drivers, salesman, servant, cook.... This list would go on as much as "low" jobs perceived.
As I walked out of the building lobby, I noticed the cute small children flowing g (article stopped here)
(Neelkanth Gardens)

You must be wondering why there was an abrupt end in the previous sentence. This is what happens when you don;t write with the flow. I felt very strongly to write about a beautiful evening I spent in my society. It was about my thoughts when I saw the sky turn dark with sparkling stars from the light blue colour. It was about the thoughts that went through my mind when I saw children screaming and playing as I walked through the gardens towards the swimming pool. It was about the thoughts that were going in mind while I was swimming. The differences I could see in people. On one side of the swimming pool were a group of teens enjoying their usual gossip and masti . Reminded me of my college days when we used to sit around on the "katta" for hours, especially this time of the year when exams were over. On the other side of the swimming pool were a group of 40+ people working out in the gym, trying very hard to keep fit. This made me wonder how would it look if their positions were switched.
When I started writing the article, I barely managed to write about the thoughts I had while I was coming down in the elevator. My evening was yet to begin. :) . I slept on my task and thought I could write down the rest of the article tomorrow. As always, tomorrow never came. Now it would be wrong to write about those thoughts of which I have a very vague picture in my mind. It would be unfair on my part to make up or recollect the exact thoughts and try to write about how I felt on that day. Therefore I have given up on this article and from next time onwards would try to jot down my thoughts then and there.

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO

((1))EMERGENCY - PARTIALLY VERIFIED BY ME

The Emergency Number worldwide for**Mobile** is112If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112can be dialled even if the keypad is locked.**Try it out.**

((2)) NOT YET VERIFIED BY ME

Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have remote keys? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone:If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone fro having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

((3)) NOT YET VERIFIED BY ME

Hidden battery powerImagine your cell battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery.To activate, press the keys*3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a50%increase in battery.This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time AND...

((4)) VERIFIED

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. when your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.

((5)) NOT SURE IF ITS TRUE

Be care while using your mobile phone When you try to call someone through mobile phone,don't put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers. Because directly after dialling, the mobile phone would use it's maximum signalling power, which is: 2 watts = 33dbi, Plz Be Careful, Message as received (Save your brain) Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it will affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team..

No Honking Day!

Today, Mumbai is observing 'No Honking Day!' The city's police traffic department has decided to observe a 'No Honking Day' on the ocassion of World Health Day on April 7 as noise pollution has an impact on health.

The effort to create the awareness is commendable. Even bollywood stars of the likes of Amitabh Bachchan were roped in. It's also good to know that the police have taken action against many motorists since January this year for using pressure/musical/reverse horns, honking in silence zones around hospitals and courts and for unnecessary honking.

Although I like this step, I was not happy with the response. The news channels did say that the mumbai roads are peaceful from their usual mindless honking. But the response on ground zero was poor. As I travelled to my office, I could not find much difference in the honking habits of most vechicles. The irony was that a government truck, which was on another awareness mission of 'Clean-up!', was honking as if there's no tomorrow. Even an ambulance's siren would have been ashamed of the loud noise created by this truck. I really wonder what could have been the emergency of the truck driver. A culture needs to be developed especially for the people working in such initiatives, to respect other awareness campaigns. Only then can they expect other mumbaikars to heed to their awareness campaign.

Anyways, I am glad of all these initiatives, willing to contribute whatever little I can do.