Ravi’s Blog

I guess google is bored of the index size game. They don’t want to play that game any more. Interesting how businesses react to pressure. So far they had it easy with competition trying to catch up. At the sign of first big challenge, they fold and withdraw from competition.

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Yet another drama as the world of indian cricket evolves. Cricinfo’s chronology of this drama is a great summary to help you get caught up.
It all makes for great drama. It’s horrible how the BCCI leaks confidential reports prepared by the coach. I mean, they hired greg chappell to do a job. He is making […]

I know this might be a bit late in the game to be thinking about re-financing. But, I just woke up and tried to re-finance my house. I had one of those monthly adjustable, LIBOR based, interest only loans. Things were good in 2001, 2002, 2003. My payments were just getting reduced and at one […]

I am being defaulted to the “personalized” version of home page for google. I wonder if i am in a fairly small test bucket or if everyone else is seeing the same.
About 2 weeks back I started seeing these links on the upper right to my account, etc. Now they seem to have extended the […]

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I have been reading a lot about web 2.0 and talking about it with a lot of colleagues. The wikipedia definition of web 2.0 is pretty good. For a large part though, whenever the word “web 2.0″ is tossed out, it is used to mean some personal opinion of how things should be.
Seems like there […]

I have been meaning to talk about this for a while, but didn’t get around to it. Some time earlier this year (april/may) i started out in a new role for yahoo! search. My role has evolved since the time i posted about it last. Our team’s charter has expanded to include supporting yahoo! search […]

I should have kept up to date with jeremy’s blog. He already blogged about this issue. I agree with his stance. I disagree with these practices and dislike them. But, it seems like this is a faily common evil practice around.Anyway, I think i have a decent guess about how my messenger got upgraded. I […]

argghh!! what the heck is live words! I found out about this and turned it off just now..

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For some reason i got automatically “upgraded” to the new yahoo messenger with voice. Arrggh!!! I hate that. I don’t want an upgrade that’s shoved down my throat like that. Not only they have uglier icons, the number of default plugins has quadrupled. I now have a pane at the bottom that has email, search […]