Sukhbir Singh

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google’s human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time – weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two (LOL) when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google’s hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report.

Or in other words, this means what specific terms did Indians search for most, using Google in April 2007.

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LOL. Ain’t it funny? Angelina Jolie? LOL LOL. We Indians. Phew.

2nd one is self explanatory.

Intex (India) is a computer accessories manufacturer, good all right but I never knew it was that popular!

DTDC is a leading Indian courier company.

Polaris – Can’t seem to fit this!!!!

SESA Goa is India’s largest exporter of iron ore in the private sector . . . Wonder . . .??

Franklin Templeton – Investment Firm . . . Must be mutual funds!

Homeopathy – Mostly found in all Indian homes. Trusted!

NCDEX – National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited

Online Hindi Songs – Papuyaar Yaar!

Mona Lisa – LOL. Now why this.

Northern Railway – The best thing to happen to Indian Railways. The online enquiry system REALLY ROCKS.

Valentino Rossi – People do watch MotoGP

Stress – Ha ha. Stress. Good one.

Jiya Khan – LOL. This really made me go ROFL. Long legs I guess ?

If you've got many Gmail accounts and don't want to keep logging on and off them every time you switch, a simple command line parameter in the Google Talk shortcut can solve your problem.

• First, create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop – leave the original intact.
• Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk – something like "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
• Change this to: "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex
  and click OK.

{ FOR SCREENSHOT, CLICK HERE }

You will now be able to run multiple instances of Google Talk with different identities for each.

1. Search Engine – Google is without doubt the best search engine. No matter how much Microsoft (MSN) or Yahoo! try to match up with it, they will never succeed. What Google can ‘crawl’ and hence display; no search engine can. And never will.

2. Mail – Now this one is easy to understand. Gmail offers 2600MB space (and counting), offers free POP access, has a great interface and now has chat. Yahoo! also has 1000MB space; it fails on other things. I don’t even want to talk about Hotmail. It stinks.

3. Blogging – Blogspot is for me the next best alternative to WordPress. Although both serve their purpose; the coolest thing for me on Blogspot is the feature to include AdSense on the site. This is something that WordPress should really offer. I mean, its almost necessary.

4. Desktop Search – The desktop search is not only confined to searching for files, it includes a host of many other features. Copernic Desktop Search is the next alternative, at least for me.

I just noticed that the Google PageRank for my blog has gone up to 4/10! Earlier it was a big zero, but now I think that 4/10 rating is a lot better since even the top blog on WordPress has got 7/10. And I am nowhere even near the fastest growing blogs. How Google PageRank works is of course something that I am not aware about, yet it is good for me!

Microsoft.com has a PageRank of 9/10 while Macromedia.com has got a 10/10. Wow!

What does this PageRank indicate? I am not sure. It is way too much complex.