I did say Good night in my last post as I was tired. I think today was a good day rather a better day as my Brother got placed in Wipro. As any other freasher he was worried about his placement and God Almighty helped him to get into one of the best companies.
His name is Ajesh Issac and he is a fourth year student of Computer Science Engineering. Wishing him all the very best, well done bro.
Once again a good night.
I am working very hard these days so no blogging today. Today I spent some free time at web forums. I had a black strong home made coffee in the morning and it worked good for me, some of my stupid comments made some people laugh. I appreciate it, have a look.
Visit the thread at http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=328475#328475.
Good night to everyone.
I am very tired after hectic work. I think I should take some rest tonight instead of blogging. People across the globe (esp Ex YPE secretaries, Mr Gigi Thomas from Qatar and Miss Merlin Luckose from Canada, they have all reasons too :)) are eagerly waiting to see the camp pics. Today morning I did try to upload it to yahoo directory but it did not work out. I then uploaded some of the images to http://fotogal.net/galleries/AjiNIMC/ypecamp. I already have some pics uploaded for the blog.
(Some of our back benchers after a sleepless night, first session of the camp)
(Some of our back benchers after a sleepless night, first session of the camp)
The breakfast session
The Lunch session, we managed to take it to our rooms, later many other followed the method. Was it illegal?
Early morning 6:30, morning tea session. I was sitting ok, it the photographers fault. I am too lazy to make rotate it 90 deg using photoshop. Sorry for the inconvenience.
True winners, two winners. Our Pastor, our coach and our captain, our YPE sec< br/>
We call it Mukka Lath session. We had almost 30 seats, half compartment booked. We called all junis and then it was Mukka lath session. Anson getting his share.
I will uploading more pics tomorrow morning. Keep watching.
Update 12 oct: Added more pics at http://in.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ajiissac1/album?.dir=/fc02scd&.src=ph&.tok=phMxQpFBkVO7I7pu
As told earlier, here is the alpha (#1) post for the 101 series. With next 100 days I am planning to touch the omega (# 101). The first in series is the “11 lessons for budding entrepreneurs”. First 8 points were taken from another entrepreneur Sanjeev Kumar. He is the Chief Operating Officer of Portal Player Inc, known around the world as the company that supplies chips to Apple for its hugely popular iPod. It develops “semiconductor, firmware and software platforms for portable multimedia products such as personal media players, secondary display enabled notebook computers and personal wireless entertainment devices”. At the Tie-ISB Connect 2006, Sanjeev Kumar spoke about the eight lessons he has learnt as an entrepreneur . These are mantras that all budding entrepreneurs should keep in mind. I will putting my thoughts in it.
I know there are plenty more from our experiences but I promised myself to stop after 11 points as per the series.
Recently I saw an increasing attraction for lists, so I have decided to cover 101 such lists with 11 tips for topics ranging from finance to technology, from HR to marketing, from SEO, SEM to social networking. I must also include few misc posts under this series.
If you know me then let me know your topic of preference. While considering a topic please check it with my work and interest, else I will have to call guest writers.
If you want to cover a 11 tips topic, please send me a mail at ajiissac(at)gmail.com and I will publish it under your name (Guest writers).
Some of the topics I am planning to cover under this series are:-
The series will continue till we reach the 101th list (want to complete it in next 100 days). As I said you can put your request under this post.
Marketing Pilgrim has launched a contest to give away a search engine marketing scholarship prize worth more than $5,000. We want to help one lucky winner to either start their career in search engine marketing or improve their existing skills further.
more at http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/search-engine-marketing-scholarship.htm
Interested people can take part. I may write about evangelistic marketing. Only catch (if it is),
Your article can be about any topic related to search engine optimization, paid search or social media, but remember the winner will be chosen based upon popularity, so the more original and engaging your article, the more likely you will attract readers and win.
What do they mean by popularity? Is it another SEO competition? or a way to build more links? I see that they have already got many links due to this competition. This is another way of building links. If I get time I might write.
Will you be writing one? What topics are you planning to write?
I am back in Kolkata after a 3 day off from WWW (web, work, West Bengal). The trip to Bhelai was good, enjoy every moment of it. We reached Durg Railway station at 3:45 am IST Monday morning. I tried to get some sleep but could not manage that day. Monday we had competitions and our church did fairly below expectation. We were not depressed as we wanted some other team to win this time. Second day after when everyone had a sound sleep swept many additional and unexpected points to keep the trophy for 4th consecutive year.
We got 66 points while the host came second with 62 points, the closest competition so far. More than the competition the youths were challenged by the Guest speaker Pastor V.O.Varghese. He certainly talk the walk and that challenges you more than anything.
Now I am back in Kolkata and somehow managed to go through 77 mails. Today was busy with all the pending work and report updation.
I will get back to blogging from tomorrow, I think I should get some sleep now.
As I mentioned in my previous posts that the camps season is near and now it is even nearer. Today we did our final rehearsal for the first camp (that is YPE camp at Bhilai). We had all type of programs like elocution, songs, stories, instrumental music for all groups. Our job was to fine tune it before the final show. Here are some pics
Last minute Choir tuning (Backstage)
(Click on the picture to enlarge it)
Continue reading “Final Call before the camps”
Who should read this: All who are serious about blogging and wants to try new things with blogs.
Notice the recent posts,
If you notice the recent posts including this one you will see a section called “Who should read this”. I have added this section to save my regular visitors time. I prefer to write on various topics from Search Engine Giant Google to Directory head Hedir, from marketing to HR and everything else available under Google search. Also I sometimes hundreds of words. Due to diverse and long posting my daily visitor may find themselves lost, or they may miss an important post so I decided to add this section to help them decide.
I have added it as I myself is more of a blog reader and I read following from home
I read many others from office which is mostly related to US credit system or Online marketing. I have added it as a live bookmark to save my time.
As I reader I always had problems in determining the post’s worth for me. I certainly do not want to waste time in reading something completely irrelevant and more importantly I do not want to miss any important topic because of irrelevant start or unassociated topic title. Do let me know your opinion about this addition.
Who should read it: All SEM interested people along with ones who track online business. All people assosiated with Hedir.
Is Google to trying to imitate Hedir’s idea? This is a question asked by one of Hedir’s reputed member Google Junky. Hedir is the oldest and the most established human edited directory (much more than a plain directory, this is web 2.0 community based review system) which scans the websites for its,
Not on the basis of
The best thread which explains about Hedir is at webproworld.com, a six page discussion.
Hedir is a complete Human based ranking system which has its own limitations and disadvantages. New patent application (System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results) Google is going Hedir’s way. Let’s see what does this patent say,
Other search services have attempted to improve Internet searching by compiling static lists of web pages on specific topics. Directory listings, such as Yahoo! (www yahoo.com) and Open Directory (www.dmoz.org), are examples. These services map a search query against the editorial comments accompanying each web page that was reviewed by an editor of the service, and optionally the full text of the documents, to generate a list of results. The scope of these services is limited, however, to the set of pages that has been reviewed by the search services’ editors.
AskJeeves (www.ask.com) generalizes the application of editorial opinion to a collection of pages. Their editors identify a set of pages that share a common theme (e.g., home pages of airports) and associate this set of pages with specific trigger words (e.g., the word “airport”). When one of the trigger words appears in the query, they present the user with a concise representation of the associated set of pages, allowing the user to choose one. Again, the scope of this technique is restricted to the set of pages that were reviewed by the editors, which tends to be many orders of magnitude smaller than the set of useful pages on the World Wide Web.
Therefore, there exists a need for a system and method that improve Internet searching.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A system and method, consistent with the present invention, address this and other needs by providing a mechanism that enhances the ranking of search results by integrating editorial opinion.
In accordance with the purpose of the invention as embodied and broadly described herein, a method that provides search results is disclosed. The method includes receiving a search query, retrieving one or more objects in response to the search query, determining whether the search query corresponds to at least one query theme of a group of query themes, ranking the one or more objects based on a result of the determination, and providing the ranked one or more objects.In another implementation consistent with the present invention, a method for determining an editorial opinion parameter for use in ranking search results is disclosed. The method includes developing one or more query themes, identifying, for each query theme, a first set of objects as being favored, identifying, for each query theme, a second set of objects as being non-favored, and determining an editorial opinion parameter for each of the objects in the first and second sets.
(Nothing new to the people who are in Google as they know it is already implemented, ask if Matt can deny it).
In a second way, the editors may establish categories/topics from a directory that may be compared to the search query to determine if the query satisfies a particular query theme. For example, a set of topics could be the topics in an online hierarchical directory (e.g., a Web Directory), such as Open Directory, Yahoo!, or Google (www.google.com). For determining sites that help in finding accommodations, a query theme could be expressed as a set of topics in Yahoo! as shown below:
Recreation: Travel: Lodging;
According to me a better categorization can be done using a mix of tags, Hedir suggests the solution at http://www.hedir.com/remove-addoption.html . Here Hedir has suggested a mix of taxonomy and folksonomy. Another area for Google to imitate.
This is good that Google is going this way. At SEO conferences we all expected that such a move when,
If I get back to my original question Is google to trying to imitate Hedir’s idea? May be yes as Hedir is growing popular and many people are watching its growth rate. Google Analytics have also copied few features from other existing analytical products and some of them were copied from Visitlab for sure. http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js See how it is using image file for tracking (if it needs more explanation, you can contact me 🙂 ).
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