I remember roaming around the streets of Madras not so long ago, only to find the phone number of P.James scrawled in every wall, advertising his magic show. Talk about this to any true Madrasi, and you will be surprised that most of them have seen it at least once in their lives. This is what I would like to call ‘on demand’. Not because Google steals the spotlight today; because of social simplicity. More on social simplicity later, I’ll have loads to talk about it in exactly 3 years from now. Till then, here’s Avik accessing a socially simple phonebook.
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I am disliking of google that it tends to promote excessively huge well know web pages with mediocre information rather than smaller but made with more care and love web pages such as yours and mine. At least that is my impression after months with dealing with google webmaster tools. Sometimes I look for a topic and the top ten results are always from big comapny web pages that tangentially speak about the subject rather than home pages especially devoted to the topic but that are not well known and therefore not well ranked by google.
Well, their logic is simple. The PR algorithm ranks pages based on importance, which furthers depends on how often sites with high PR link to yours. It’s a business model of sorts, which we have little control of! We’ll take a long time to get there, but keeping the work real is step one