Sunday, June 21, 2009

Why Microsoft's Bing is better than Google...

Hey all,
This is what happens when you try to "over-exceed" your competitor. The whole thing backfires.

Open Google and search "Bill Gates sucks". This is what you get



You get 448,000 results in Google.

Now try Microsoft's Bing. Search for "Bill Gates sucks". This is what you get.



757,000 results. I don't wish to bring any profanity in my blog, but look at the first result in Bing. Efff YOU BILL GATES. :D :D :D. See Bing is better than Google.

These screen shots were taken on Monday afternoon. The same day in the morning at college while doing project we tried this. Google gave the same number of results now and Bing gave 17,15,000 results. In the afternoon Bing gave less number of results. Yes, its obvious that Microsoft Bing developers had to save their jobs and reduced the number of search results.
What do you say? Try this once and see. Till then adios. We have a project demonstration tomorrow through video conference with State University of New York. Need to prepare a lot. Wish us good luck. We need lots. :P. Anyway tomorrow I will upload all the conference pics.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Ratan Tata's NANO is nothing compared to that of Sam Anderson's

For all those who don't know Sam Anderson, let me introduce him to you. Sam Anderson is superstar of Tamil film industry. He has made Vivek, Vadivel etc run for their money with his acting skill (I think I am exaggerating). His movies are awesome. Some people who watched his movie are still in NIMHANS. Just goto youtube and search "sam anderson tamil", you will get hell lot of videos.

Here is one scene from Sam Anderson's movie Yaarukku Yaaro (Yaarigagi yaaro). He is an automobile engineer in this movie. He develops a small sized car for middle class people for just 70000 Rs. Ratan Tata has a stiff competition now. Watch the video at your own risk.




For those who dont know tamil, let me translate:

Background music ting ting tong tong tadaaaa pa pa pa paa paa.

Heroine: Hi daddy.
Daddy: Hi.
Heroine: He is David.
Daddy: Welcome. Please have a seat.
Sam aka David: Thank you.
Daddy: Mr.David, you saved me from a big trouble that day. I wanted come to your house personally and thank you .
Heroine: Daddy he wants to talk to you about business.
Daddy: Oh sure.
Sam aka David: Saar, I yam yan yautomobile yengineer.
Daddy: I know, my daughter told everything about you. I heard that you have modelled a small sized car.
Sam aka David: Yes sir I came here to talk about it. This is the car which I modelled.

(Sam shows a car drawn on KG cardboard. I seriously doubt that it is his design. I think he copied from Deccan Herald's Open Sesame additional for children) :)

Daddy: You designed it on your own?
Sam aka David: Yes saar.
Daddy: But you should invest crores of rupees on this. Do you have money?
Sam aka David: I don't have that much money, but i will build a model and take loan from bank and start a factory.
Daddy: Oh ok. You are taking loan.
Sam aka David: This car is for middle class people. If this car is introduced in our state it will be popular.
Daddy: What is the cost of this car? Any estimate?
Sam aka David: 70000Rs.
Daddy: 70000Rs !!!
Sam aka David: Yes saar. Instead of buying 6-7 lakh Rs car, this car is 10 times cheaper.
Daddy: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

For your info, there is an Orkut Sam Anderson fan community.

Before and After

I was watching ಎದೆ ತುಂಬಿ ಹಾಡುವೆನು(I consider this show as best). A small kid sang vishnuvardhan's ತುತ್ತು ಅನ್ನ ತಿನೋಕ್ಕೆ beautifully. I don't know from which movie it is, but the song has a very good message and it is meaningful. I assume that the movie was made 30 years ago. It describes the needs of a man at that time. The song goes something like this:

ತುತ್ತು ಅನ್ನ ತಿನ್ನೋಕೆ

ಬೊಗಸೆ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿಯೋಕೆ

ತುಂಡು ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಸಾಕು ನನ್ನ ಮಾನ ಮುಚ್ಚೋಕೆ

ಅಂಗೈ ಅಗಲ ಜಾಗ ಸಾಕು ಹಯಾಗಿರೋಕೆ...

This song can be modified taking into consideration needs of a man nowadays. Maybe something like this:

Pizza burger ತಿನ್ನೋಕೆ

Pepsi coke ಕುಡಿಯೋಕೆ

ತುಂಡು ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಬೇಕು ಈಗ fashion ಮಾಡೋಕೆ

60 80 site ಬೇಕು ಮನೆಯನು ಕಟ್ಟೋಕೆ.

What do you say?

Monday, June 1, 2009

Tag clouds or Label clouds in Blogger

Hey all. I wanted some blogger tweaks badly and found one. Tag clouds are amazing, eye catching cloud like formation of labels or tags.

The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing site Flickr, created by Flickr co-founder and interaction designer Stewart Butterfield.

Tag clouds in websites rely on the frequency of words appearing. The algorithm excludes commonly occurring words like is, an, you, we etc. The improbable words or keywords are taken into account and accordingly a visual cloud is formed.

In Blogger, the labels act as keywords thus reducing the work of the algorithm(It's a big javascript). It just manipulates the labels. Checks how many posts were written under a particular topic/label. In fact you can change the javascript, but please save your old blog template before doing any changes.

Play with your blog appearance and make it more attractive and appealing for readers. You can check out top left side of my blog for the label cloud.

Click here to add Label clouds to your blog.

Click here to know more about tag clouds.