Mumbai dumps the girl child
Another study showing that the more “educated” and well off the parents are in India, the more likely they are to discriminate against a girl, killing her before she is born.
Education in most parts of India is nothing but memorising pages and repeating it in exams. More than 50% of the [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Mumbai dumps the girl child
March 28, 2007 – 9:20 am
Privacy for domain names ?
March 25, 2007 – 12:03 pm
Privacy for domain owners moves forward . Actually this has both advantages and disadvantages.
If you register a domain others want, they can find out your complete background using the whois details. If you give a valid name, address and phone number, you receive crank calls and there is a lot of speculation on forums . If you [...]
Search engines ranking spam blogs
March 20, 2007 – 12:12 am
Study Exposes ‘Search Spam’ . This study confirms what I have observed for long , if you purchase a “keyword rich” article (never mind if it contains nonsense) and get enough links from blogs, it will rank well in Search Engines.
Many of the websites that rank well in search engines, especially Google, spend a lot of money in [...]
Websites disappearing from Google.
March 15, 2007 – 1:11 am
How Search-Engine Rules Cause Sites to Go Missing . This portion particularly seemed interesting – “After VLSI contacted Google repeatedly about the issue, a Google employee threatened to blacklist VLSI sites from its results, Mr. Hutcheson says”.
Almost all my websites have disappeared from Google. Human users find them useful – 50-70% bookmark them . I [...]
Low online advertising rates in India
March 13, 2007 – 1:24 pm
Most online advertising in India is dominated by search engine marketing firms . These companies charge their clients per lead, and if you have Indian traffic, your CPM will be very low, since the bids are very low. Till more advertisers learn to directly manage their online advertising campaigns, the situation will not improve. Â