Going Nuts

IMG_0099, originally uploaded by cgmuthana.

This rickshaw is barely visible as it sputters along the road with its Cargo of Coconuts. Its owner was so desperate to get to market in Mysore, India, he put all his coconuts in one load. ‘

The husks were tied to each other using their own fibres. Crazy,’ said CG Muthana, who took the shot

Featured in Metro UK | Metro Digital (Dated: 28.04.2009)

Does Google Support Paid Links? Find out!

The most discussed or should I rather use the term ‘debated’ topic on Search Engine Optimisation / Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Link Building would be “Does Google Support Paid Links?” Find out what Google’s opinion about this at their Webmaster Support Center.

1. Why should I report paid links to Google?
2. SEO Guidelines from Google

Its evident that Google is against Paid Links / Un-Natural Link Building Strategies, most of their guidelines at help center do provide you solutions to avoid paid links, which could end up penalizing your domain name. Google also has a place where you could report paid links (beware!), you never know.. your competitor could be sypying on your to repot Google!

Now, here is more on to the topic.. i was surprised to see an interesting or should I say a Spammy ad via Google AdSense at Digital Point Forums. While browsing a thread on Automatic URL Submitter, I happened to see the ad below from Google AdSense:

Two Questions:

1. Where is the Website URL on the Advertisement ?
   
2. Where is Ad by Google?

Aren’t these basic policy of Google AdSense to display the url of site and ads by google on every advertisement displayed through Google AdSense to classify that what viewers see is an ad?

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Galatta.com classified as “Suspicious Site” by Google

If you are from India, specially down South you should be knowing about a popular site Galatta.com - an
Entertainment portal featuring new movie releases, music, contests and celebrity chats. The site also has Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi & English sections to cover the entire Indian Entertainment Industry and as well reaching hands on Hollywood! One of the first few sites that I visited when I started my journey on Internet, and have been knowing it since my early school days (10th Grade).

Ok, enough of what the site is all about.. now coming to an interesting twist..! The site has recently been banned or should I say classified as “Suspicious Site“. I noticed this when I tried visiting the site (via Firefox), “This web site at tamil.galatta.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.“! Well at first I wondered if the site was hacked (NO!), so what went to make Google stop users from entering the site?

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Sify Clones Yahoo!

Sify, one of India’s pioneer in Internet Portal seem to be lacking in good designers and programmers for its website. Looking at the so called re-designed/renovated home page of Sify.com one can be sure its 99.9% clone of Yahoo! UI. I was little surprised to see a change in UI (User Interface) today when I visited the home page but something striked my mine about the design. It did make a resemblance of a site I (and millions, billions) visit every day. Its nonetheless Yahoo!, one of the most visited site on the Internet.

From placement of modules (Navigations, Advertisements, Search Box, News, Marketplace/Hot Deals), Sify seem to have inspired a lot from Yahoo!. Its ain’t bad to get inspired from others but there has to be so called “Unique” and where does it stand with sify? Not only the modules placement has been very similar to Yahoo, the gradients used through out the home page is very close to Yahoo! have a look by opening both sites in separate window Sify at www.sify.com and Yahoo! at www.yahoo.com ! You can hardly point the difference (ignoring the contents thats in).

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How to kill a Lion in Corporate world

TCS Method:

hire a lion
give him hell a lot of work and pay him government salary
lion dies of hunger and frustration

Cognizant Method:

hire a lion… ask him to stay for late nights but give him no work to do.
give him gobi 65 to eat again and again.
hire 100 more lions but do not increase the space to sit
give them same gobi 65 to eat
hire 200 more……. and more …….

IBM’s Method:

hire a lion, give him a pink slip in an hour …
he dies of unemployment…
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Puppy-Tossing Video - American soldier throws puppy off cliff

No comments! View Digg & YouTube to see what the public thinks about this act! The soldier is really sick to do this .. true ‘maniac’.. ! News Up on HeraldNet | CNN, Social News in action!

Chances are YouTube might remove this, you can download “Video: American soldier throws puppy off cliff” and open it using VLC Player or any player that supports .flv! Whats your say on this abusing act by American Soldier(s)?