Algorithm for Talking With TeleMarketerNovember 2nd, 2005 Almost all of us have been pained by telemarketers. You probably have realized by now that they follow a script which guide the conversation and make it one-sided, in their favor and against you.
Infosys still hiring; to ramp up headcount this fiscalJanuary 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - Allaying fears of slowdown or lay-offs, IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd is still in hiring mode and plans to ramp up its headcount by this fiscal (2008-09), a senior executive said Tuesday. 'Though we have said in the beginning of this fiscal that we would hire about 25,000 people, in our estimate our hiring will go up to 27,000 by March 31, 2009,' Infosys head for HRD, education and research T.V.
Compete in 2005 TopCoder Open Competition for a shot at the $150,000 Prize PurseJune 22nd, 2005 Sun Developer Network is sponsoring 2005 TopCoder(r) Open Competition. You can program in any of the languages - Java, C++, C# and Visual Basic.
TailRank Overtaken By Spammers; Link Based Importance Algorithm suspectJuly 22nd, 2007 Mike @ TechCrunch wondered whether TailRank belonged to the technology deadpool. And today the top story on TailRank is a viagra spam post.
Never-ending GMail InvitesOctober 31st, 2005 As I continue to give out GMail invites, Google continues to replenish me. Today I opened up to send out yet another invite when I noticed I am back to 100 (invites I can give out).
Google Venturing In Blogging? ... Hiring Bloggers?September 20th, 2006 I am not talking about providing blogging software / service like Blogger. It looks like Google (at least Google India) may actually venture into blogging themselves.
AdSense Going Bonkers?November 4th, 2007 Why in the world I am getting overseas travel insurance ads on my highly technical blog?
I am not talking about an individual page where I can understand that Google Media bot haven't crawled yet. I am talking about the front page!
The only time I talked about travel insurance was in July 7th.
The Accuracy of Google Image Search (And Yahoo)July 9th, 2006 I did an image search for angsuman. The results are startling.
Wipro BPO continues hiring ignoring recessionApril 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Despite the economic slowdown, Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing division of IT giant Wipro Technologies, is hiring personnel and expanding its operations globally, a top official said here Tuesday.'For the last six months, we have been hearing depressing news about people losing jobs and companies resorting to cost-cutting measures but we are still looking for people,' Wipro BPO head Ashutosh Vaidya told reporters. The company plans to expand its BPO facility in Hyderabad by recruiting 1,000 to 1,200 people over the next six to eight months, he said.
Top 12: Best of Humor in Simple ThoughtsSeptember 24th, 2007 Simple Thoughts has always been about technology. However occasionally I like to post something humorous.
Is Google AdSense Losing Its Relevance?January 16th, 2007 Google AdSense is known for its uncanny relevance in serving context sensitive ads. Its competitors like Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera aren't being able to make significant inroads to AdSense / AdWords customer based primarily due to relevance, perceived or otherwise.
Clean Room Implementation of Google Page Rank AlgorithmAugust 17th, 2006 Finally a clean-room implementation of Google's Page Rank Algorithm in Java, reverse-engineered from their numerous commentary on Page Rank (or is it Pigeon Rank?). public static int getPageRank(url) {
// start off with a random low PR
int pageRank = rand.getInt(0, 3);
if ( isHostedOn('google.com', url) ) {
pageRank++;
} else if ( isHostedOn('microsoft.com', url) ) {
pageRank--;
}
// Support valid pages
if (isValidPage(url) ) {
pageRank += 1;
}
tag_value['b'] = 1;
tag_value['h2'] = 2;
tag_value['h1'] = 3;
tag_value['strong'] = -1; // W3C sux!
pageRank = calculateTagsPR(tag_value, pagerank);
// Sergey said good news sites have
// lots of nested tables
tablesOnPage = getTagCount('table');
if (tablesOnPage >= 50) {
pageRank += 2;
}
if (pageRank >= 5) {
pageRank = 4; // helps selling AdWords
}
if (linksFrom('mattcutts.com', url) >= 4) {
// I link to "clean" sites only
// ? Matt, Feb 2006
pagerank += 2;
}
pagerank += countBacklinks(url) / 10000;
blacklist1 = getList('c:\chinese-government-censored.txt');
blacklist2 = getList('c:\larry-page-hatelist.txt');
if ( inArray(blacklist1, url) || inArray(blacklist2, url) ) {
pageRank = 0;
}
d = dashesInUrl(url);
pageRank = (d >= 3) ? pageRank -1 : pageRank + 1;
if (inString(url, "how to build a bomb")) {
// added on request.
When Google Search FailsOctober 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.
How to Program intelligent (AI) Lego Mindstorms robots with JavaMay 18th, 2005 A good article from JavaWorld which describes how you can build intelligent robots that can learn and show emergent behavior. It uses artificial neural networks.
In Defence of Google Web SearchJuly 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.
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