Monday, September 5, 2011

My changing face 10 years later

As time goes by we see changes in our looks and wonder how we will look when we get really old. I am wondering if I am ageing like a fine wine.
Here I am 12 years ago.

And this is how I look now in September 2011:)

People still recognize me I guess the real time to confess we are ageing rapidly is when people who once knew us go past us in the street as if they never knew us at all.


Sunday, September 4, 2011

Google's Unknown Brother

Over the years I’ve considered myself to be Google’s Unknown Brother, one may call it madness he may even say I’m completely foolish to even write such a blog but who cares as this is my blog and I write about what I want to write.

I consider Google to be more than just a search engine but more a like a million combinations of many different assets all under one roof. First of all before Google came about finding information on the web which was actually there was limited. There were several other SearchEngines people like to use Altavista Excite and Yahoo and several others one of the things people found was when they used different search engines different information would appear, however when you used google all the information which appeared from them was available in google and a hell of a lot more which were never showing up in other search engines. In this respect Google became a godsend to me as they found information which was hard to find as well as there was limited information available and the other engines were not picking it up. Lets say for example you were looking for information on how to program smart cards at one point few books were written on this subject however some technical gurus like myself had written information covering some of the subject however were never found in other SearchEngines.

Before the information was ever available on the internet we relied on the local bookshops and libraries for information as they had contacts with other sources worldwide. Today what a shopkeeper can find for us can often be found on the web. The internet has not rendered book shop and libraries useless as they still have information which is available to them before being published anywhere on the internet. I can recall as a child me and my brothers wanting to buy a collection of Enid Blyton books as we were totally in love with here books and thanks to the useful library resources we were able to purchase her full collection.

As the Google’s unknown brother the way I see it is like this, many programmers in this world find satisfaction by doing only half the job as they do not have the ability to progress beyond that point however with Google they are perfectionist, I do not think everything they do is out of this world, for example I think they should allocate a support team to Google Blogger, even if it means a cheap yearly subscription fee. However when they set out to do something, anything will not do, the standard of their work quality is always very high.

When you have a lot of work to complete and wish for that work to be completed successfully without confiding in other people or to give any indication as to what your work objectives are search for information privately is a useful asset, This type of requirement is not only beneficial to the sex starved man or woman who has a filthy mind which he keeps private, but it can also be useful to many others working in different professions. Problem is what if that information is there and we cant find it thanks to the inadequacy of the search engine or the illiterate SEO writer? This is were Google supersede competitors.

I strongly believe that every person in the world with a websites indexed in a Google owes Google some allegiance. If they can be found and are gaining traffic thanks to Google. Google have a strategic method which covers all the text written on your page as well as the phrases or keywords if you like, what this means is the page you’ve written can be found in many different ways which other search engines like MSN and YAHOO fail to do miserably. When Google talked about their intentions for the future, they quoted they are very far off, so what is to come will blow the pants of any man or woman. In fact Google once claimed it would take them 300 years to reach their ultimate objective with their search engine. I think they are so advanced I am sure what is coming will be completely unthinkable:)

I have indulged in some very useful projects which made me a lot of money, in order to do this successfully I needed to find the right people, this was not easy and it took a lot of research. I started out with a plan I was going to find a hundred customers from each search engine, I concluded my list with 1000 places to get in touch with and all the clients which were related and targeted to my subject were all found via a Google search. I’m not saying that you cant find useful information via other search engines what I am saying is overhaul I believes Google is way superior regarding the information it spews out. This is not something people should neglect as many computer owners do not even know of Google’s existence and there is a reason for this. Often when they purchase a computer everything is already set for them and the browser that comes with Windows is Internet Explorer, when you click on this and open it up by default the home page is the MSN search engine. A naïve customer and none computer literate will simply use this and feel it’s the way to go. My sister had a computer for years and did all her searches via MSN it was only when I showed her how Google can wipe the floor with MSN then she switched to using Google. In addition to that I was a computer engineer doing private many corporate computer repairs relating to hardware and software problems and in doing so I repaired over 2000 computers, I can assure you that over half of my customers where using other search engines including Ask and Yahoo and in many cases I was able to educate the client of the magic Google.

My aim as a passionate Googler is to work in a way which helps searches to work in favour of anybody using a search engine. If each person did this and did not try to cheat the system in any way I think search engines would work even better. As mentioned previously I like Google even though things they have done have not worked entirely to my favour. One annoying experience is when they said a blog of mine was spammed they immediately barred the blog and I was unable to access the data without any warning. I had put a lot of work into that blog and sadly I had not backed it up. There is only one way to describe my feeling I was completely pissed off. Reason being the barred my blog relating to one page only, however when they did this I lost interest in the domain and was unwilling to renew it again it also left me feeling a little bit untrusting about google blogger. Generally speaking I think blogger is great, but what worried me is they gave me no further access to the blog and did not explain exactly what was wrong.

Over the years I’ve become a lot wiser in understanding search engines, yet despite what I know now, I still feel I know nothing. In all honesty, the more I see, is the more I know, and more I know, is the less I understand. I feel there is a long road to go as a computer programmer, therefore I constantly update what I do know on a daily basis by dedicating time to reading, understanding, and applying what I learn about google search, I also know my limitations & study hard to to better them.