Reminiscence of a bygone era

Mathematics had intrigued me always…

Came upon this link which made me remember about the Mathematics Olympiad

which we used to love during our school days….

Ajay George in the ‘Hindu’

Computer Design and Repair ?

Your search ends here…..

My friend has this awesome service http://www.akroncdnr.com/

Description:

Computer Design & Repair is a computer repair & services company targeting the home & office information technology field in the Summit County area, while offering web hosting & software development opportunity world wide.

When founded in 2003, our outlook was simply for offering computer repair services. In only 4 short years, we’ve grown to unexpected proportions. Currently our office is located in downtown Cuyahoga Falls, to better serve residence in Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Tallmadge, & also the greater Akron area.

While we support all makes & models of name brand PCs, we can also build customer specific systems. We offer both on-site & drop off repair service.

Yahoo Messenger Status Checker

This is a diff method and I found it quite accidentally..
While running an nmap scan over the network, came to notice admdog on port 5101.
Did a quick Google on it..
and came to know that it was the yahoo messenger port.
So even if your friend is invisible running an nmap (provided you know the ip ) you can get to know whether he is online.

But I found this hack to be pretty useful though even better methods are there to check on the Messenger Status.

Googled!!

Google , Google and more Google…

My day starts with Google.. Gmail,Orkut,Analytics the list of google components that I use are endless…

But this post is a take on the lighter side of Google.

Google’s April Fool Day hoaxes are pretty interesting and I almost fell for the Gmail Paper hoax..

A year wise list of Google Hoaxes..

2000: Google MentalPlex

2002: Pigeon Rank

2004: Google Lunar/Copernicus Center

2005: Google Gulp

2006: Google Romance

2007: Gmail Paper

2007: Google TiSP

and finally http://www.googleaprilfools.com/

a 2008 Google page could be showing ” Google announces Ajay George as their new CEO ”

The Chinese search engine that out-Googled Google

Chinese search giant Baidu is beating Google at its own game in China, but it’s playing by different rules

INGAPORE — “I get it,” the Western man says, speaking heavily accented Chinese. Surrounded by beautiful Chinese women in the video advertisement, he grins with self-satisfaction.

Nearby, a suave Chinese man dressed in scholar’s robes laughs. “You don’t necessarily get it,” he says. As the ad unfolds, the Chinese scholar proceeds to humiliate the Westerner, mocking his poor Chinese-language skills. In the end, the women flock to the scholar’s side, and the Westerner is left confused, alone and humiliated.

“Baidu understands Chinese better,” the Baidu.com Inc. advertisement says, needling the company’s former investor and current rival, Google Inc. And statistics seem to bear that out: Baidu accounts for 62% of the country’s search traffic, up from 52% in 2005, according to the China Internet Network Information Center in Beijing. For Western companies trying to establish a Web presence in China, understanding how Baidu plays the game could be key.

Robin Li

Founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, two Chinese technology executives who once worked in the U.S., Baidu has grown to become the most visited Chinese-language Web site in the world. In the process, it has also earned the rare distinction of being one of few companies to have competed toe-to-toe with Google and won, though some would say the playing field was tilted.

Baidu’s detractors claim that the company abets music piracy and pads the top of its search results with paid listings. But the success and popularity of the company’s search engine is undeniable.

A large part of Baidu’s early success is attributable to its MP3 search engine, which came just as MP3 players were taking off in China. Lawsuits brought by music companies claiming that the search service infringes on their copyrights haven’t slowed Baidu’s progress.

The company’s rise occurred as the Chinese government was growing increasingly concerned about Google’s search engine.

read more at Computer World

Search engine optimization

Its been awhile since AGP Blog was active.Expect a series of articles starting from today…

SEO as it is popularly known , refers to optimizing your site so that the Search Engines are able to crawl it and your site thus gets a better rank among the results.

A subset of search engine marketing,it is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.

The two types of SEO techniques are White hat and Black Hat.

(refer Wiki for more)

Now I am going to deal with a set of indispensable SEO Tools and procedures that will ensure your site a better page rank.

Have Google Analytics running on your site.Ask your friends to link up your site.Subscribe to Google Adsense and start making money while your page rank goes up.

Now from a hacker’s point of view…

adding arificial keywords…

Now for my site to increase the rank for keyword for my name,I can have multiple ajay thus making the bot to crawl many number of Ajay’s in the process..

Another method could be Spamdexing in which Link Farming is an interesting method..(Again Wiki it)

Icing on the cake : Seochat.com

A comprehensive collection on all the SEO stuff..

Thats all for now…