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Funny Facebook Groups

Posted April 20th, 2010 by Siby Kuriakose | No Comments

Here’s our list of funny facebook groups. Does reveal a lot about us social animals… I’m sorry, I just can’t hear you over the sound of me being so awesome You instantly piss me off when I see you. tripping but not falling and then pretending it never happened I forgive but i never forget I [...]

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Time for a Google Search

Posted April 1st, 2010 by Siby Kuriakose | 2 Comments

How much time does it take for Google to return search results for a query? Apparently, 0.68 times the velocity of an unladen swallow (or) 0.04 femtogalactic years 0.09 centons 0.18 microweeks 0.07 microfortnights 2.00 shakes of a lamb’s tail 23.00 skidoo 0.03 nanocenturies 0.53e-15 epochs 1.21 gigawatts 84.40 jiffies at warp 8.96 at 5.44 [...]

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Why scantily clad women will not generate click-throughs…

Posted November 15th, 2009 by Siby Kuriakose | No Comments

First the picture I saw this display ad while browsing through a tech site! Before you think it, yes it did catch my attention and let me assure you with confidence, it will do that to for all males of the human race. But what did it make me think? cheapshot, loud, vulgar, desperate, tricky [...]

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Posted July 20th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
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Google Latitude

Posted July 10th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
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Domino’s YouTube video fright!

Posted April 17th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments

“Nothing is local anymore,” Domino’s spokesman Tim McIntyre says. “That’s the challenge of the Web world. Any two idiots with a video camera and a dumb idea can damage the reputation of a 50-year-old brand.” Read the full story here Domino’s  got it right! Thay apparently responded pro actively to this malicious campaign by couple [...]

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Slideshare – April Fools Day Prank

Posted April 1st, 2009 by Siby Kuriakose | 1 Comment

It all started this morning… We have the SemKraft corporate presentation on Slideshare which talks about SEO, PPC, Web Analytics and SMO and we put this in a few weeks back. I was quite happy when it got a few views and a couple of people favourited it too! But frankly speaking if you want [...]

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Ask.com uses Google Adwords

Posted March 25th, 2009 by Siby Kuriakose | No Comments

Are we the first to notice this? We didn’t check but nevertheless we feel quite strongly about this and wanted to know what the rest of the world thought about it. Ask.com the Search Engine that has often been hailed as the one that pioneered a lot of technology but missed the bus when it [...]

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Pay Per Click & Indian Elections 2009

Posted February 26th, 2009 by admin | No Comments

We are all aware that the webosphere or blogosphere or whatever you want to call it has exploded over the last few years in India. The highly successful “Pink Chaddi Campaign” run by the “Consortium of Pub Going, Loose & Forward Women” and orchestrated primarily through the synonymous Facebook group is a case in a [...]

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Google Searches & Facebook Status Updates

Posted January 28th, 2009 by admin | No Comments

These two stories caught our attention recently. The first one makes you wonder about your privacy and its invasion by the search behemoth. Although recent regulations have forced Google, Yahoo and others to limit maintaining search histories to six months, how much info on us do they already have?.  Can you profile a person’s character [...]

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