A Thought Provoking Post From Past - Google & The Puzzle of Dropping Eggs Or What Makes Web 2.0 Click

June 10th, 2006 Google is also known for its interesting interview questions. Enjoy this one and my solution.

August 17th, 2006 6 steps to setup your free online store using Google Base & Google Checkout. Click on the "Sign In" link on the Google Base homepage.

July 26th, 2006 Google has released new anti-fraud measures that provides its advertisers reports of invalid clicks through its AdWords system. Advertisers that use Google AdWords can now run campaign and account performance reports that include data about invalid clicks.

May 22nd, 2009 It was dote on to see Google Chrome 2.0 dropping its beta tag. Surprisingly, Chrome was in beta for just three months whereas the Gmail launched four years back is still in its beta.  It's semantics that rules Google.

January 9th, 2008 Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page.

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

August 17th, 2007 I faced quite some problems in configuring Pidgin / Gaim with Google Talk on Fedora Core 6. Here are the detailed steps for a no-brainer configuration of Pidgin for Google Talk: 1.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate the same amount of harmful carbon dioxide as boiling an electric kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research quoted Sunday. A typical search generates about seven grammes of CO2 whereas an electric kettle generates about 15 gm, The Sunday Times quoted a Harvard University physicist as saying.

May 11th, 2005 An attempt to demonstrate how such brain-dead schemes gets approved in a corporate setting looking to maximize shareholder values.

August 27th, 2009 Imagine if you could see what a journalist (the guy with the camera) does all day (from his point of view), covering important events like the Presidents speech to mundane tasks like watching a beautiful skyline to waiting for someone or something special (Ted Kennedy related?). You can hear their idle chatter, name dropping their relationship with Kennedy family, and everything in between.

April 1st, 2009 Do you wanna brainstorm the logical Google to think of something more human? Have you ever thought what if you could ask the Google search to find the name of that kid across your room, just from your mobile? May be you never thought of it in the first place. But, now that you have Google Brain Search (BETA) on the Google Mobile App available for your iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry or the Android-powered phones, you can try it out.

October 26th, 2006 I have been in an interesting discussion with a very high profile client when Google Search came up. One recurring thought which came up was how the apparent strength of Google search, that made it the number one search engine, is its very weakness in several industries.

June 12th, 2009 We had highlighted Bing's power to woo-the-advertisers in our previous article. Things are heading according to the augury.

May 11th, 2005 What would happen when a GWA user uses phpMyAdmin?

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.