Google According to Srinjoy

I am going through one those phases in life when I’m kinda totally googlised , hence this post.

Before I start , I’m not going to write about the following aspects of Google which everyone seems to know ; or if you don’t , you can always ‘google’ it out yourself. I may however comment and opine about these, and yours would be great too !!

1. That Google is a billion billion dollar corporation and if you invested in it in 2004 you are one lucky jackass . Lucky, you know why , Jackass because no one predicted what is now history and you certainly dint.
2. That Google has a famous 20% rule where employees get to spend time working on their personal projects for Google or for greater good. (Guess what they end up doing !)
3. The SB and LP duo were once again Ivy League dropouts who got into Silicon Valley and got loaded.
4. That Google is the best search engine and a lot more.

I’ll start with the last one. Yes we know , Google rules you. No it doesn’t? Think about life without Orkut, Picasa ,Youtube ,Gmail and of course no Google. Your web life ends there doesn’t it ? (Chrome addicts are you listening ?, if you are so anti-Microsoft stick to Mozilla). But what you don’t know is that google offers a host of cute little features and prospects that are frighteningly luxurious. There’s Google News, Google Finance, Google Shopping, Google Videos, Google Music, Google Blogsearch, Google Image Search, Google Reader, Google Scholar, Google Blogs and as I am writing this, some geek in GooglePlex might be developing Google Dinosaurs or Google Psychiatry.

See the thing is with such a range of services it can come up with concepts like telling you what movie to watch at what theatre with reviews,cast and every detail going one step forward to even tell you IMAX or Adlabs whichever is cheaper(or more popular !), based on your location and movie name. It can expand to buying vegetables or booking air tickets , with full comparison of rates,quality and relevance. See the power of information ?? It can put everyone from travel agents to real-estate agents out of business. And who’s the big Daddy of all information ? Already Google Maps and Google Earth enables you to locate places and things around your locality with spectacular ease. With GPS in cars, who knows where it might lead to ?? (Well they also have Google Mars in case you are thinking of migrating in recent future!!)

Now Google is Fun !! To work in and to surf in !!

We all know why to work in, its got amazing open environment , fun place with informal attires and fun-like work-culture so that when you leave your home at 9 its like “ Honey , I’m leaving for vacation”…. and blah blah blah …….

But its surfing google that even you will know why they have a misspelled word as a brand and a logo that looks like lego alphabets. Instead of the drab service unavialables and 404s and network problems what google has come up with is “Bad Bad user , No Donut for you” , “Oops we are having a problem connecting” and so on. So you see how they are bulding their brand projecting a fun image , that’s what’s awesome about google. How about the famous “I’m feeling lucky “ ….. Would Microsoft or AOL ever come up with something like that ? On a side note go to www.google.com and type Chuck Norris and press “I’m feeling lucky”. Funny Eh ? Not to Google’s credit(fault/easter egg ??) though. Speaking of easter eggs who can forget the amazing logos Google surprises us with from time to time ??

See its not possible for Microsoft or any other company to copy google’s corporate model , because you know why, they just CANNOT. Because its not a model, it’s a culture that roots back to LP and SB themselves. To change it , you’ll have to change to the fun recruiting process, to the cool project managers, to the fun environment. You just cannot do it all. Google after all was built in a decade not a day.I mean let’s just face it , half the world is surfing Google.com in Internet Explorer, but SB and LP were much cooler geeks than Mr.Gates.

Happy Googling

Oh and while you’re at it, try r_earth in Google.com

Life’s Lighter Moments

I am pretty jobless these days and what with clear lack of company I did what all-self respecting laptop-addicts eventually do- Get into social networking.

I was browsing through a lot of communities till I happened to stumble into this one. Now the following piece has been shamelessly copy-pasted from various posts without any sort of consent from anyone. Anyways it relates to things people used to do when they were kids, I liked most of them, since I could relate to a lot of them, as well. Read On.
“I’d asked my bro. to play a game with me in which he’d b the servant and I’d b the house mistress…I wore my mum’s shawl in a manner she wears!
“I’d asked him to clean the washroom and kept on asking him to clean properly “
“I used to feel whenever a villain dies in a movie he is dead forever and will never act in any other movie.”
“Whenever I used to see the movie of a particular hero I used to connect that story to his previous movie.
As a kid I never knew how do actually convert a currency into changes….u tear it and make it half or what?
Thank God I never had a 100/- note as a kid. I would have splitted it up to make it two 50/-s.
I used think everybody’s birthday is on my birthday!!! … Anything more stupid???
I used 2 think data every bus is a school bus!!!I did sit in a bus all by myself (it was evening time) thinking data it was going 2 school!!!!
I used to think 100 is the biggest number ever to exist …. like the sky is 100 kms high…
My mamaji was in Police, so whenever I say a policeman I start shouting Mamaji Mamaji. Several times the policeman starts wondering what this kid is doing.
And I refused to take a $100 from my uncle coz I didn’t like the picture on it
I had heard when the water falls from height electricity is generated. So one day I was watching Indo-Pak cricket match on TV and the light went off, so I went on the roof, took one bucket of water and started throwing the water on the ground, one mug after another
Well…I thought that when I used to give a rupee to buy candies… (Actually worth 25ps) in school…I used to get money back as change…so I thought…oh that’s cool….I get more money back…he he….I believed so…till 5th!!More u give more you get back!!….but actually that’s true….if u think of it….the other way:)
As a kid I never understood the concept of playback singing, I thought the actors sung themselves. Someone at home told that playback singers sing it and they play the song while shooting the song sequence.
I always used to look for a tape recorder in the songs to find out where the songs come from…..man it took real long for me to understand the concept.
I used to sit in front of the things and in my own sense tried to focus on them, and used to believe that I’ll make them move, bend or even fly one day ( all that crap in those weird Chinese movies ,u know !!)
When I was a kid… my cousins were my heroes… anything they say I’d believe it n they really put this fact to the best use…. I always wanted to ride their bicycle and keep pestering them to allow me to but they’d never let me n they’d put me off by saying data I need to have a license to ride a bicycle otherwise the police would catch me…. n me.. I actually believed it for years!
I used to search my pics in ma parent’s wedding album…!!
I used to think ppl lived inside the television and radio….and I tried finding a door to let them out….
I used to believe for a very loon time data women get pregnant only after two years of their marriage….n data a kid comes out of ad mothers hand….coz in movies dye showed after giving birth ad baby lies at ad mom’s side..near her hand..
I thought moon always follow me where ever I go..
I THOUGHT THAT OLD DAYS WERE BLACK AND WHITE AFTER WATCHING OLD MOVIES……I CAME 2 KNOW I WAS WRONG WHEN ONCE MY MOM TOLD ME DAT SHE LOVED RED ROSES….AND I REMEMBER SHE LAUGHED OUT ALOUD WHN I TOLD HER WAT I THOUHT……LOLZ
Used 2 believe that the sun is as big as my room…I that nothing cud get bigger than my room
I used 2 think dat smooches r meant only 4 foreigners…
Well…once I ate mah granny’s sleeping pills kept in a bottle thinking it to be gems…
I used to believe that cotton candy was made from the clouds in the sky
I thought them to cotton candy factory
I also used to think how I will pass 16 classes
I thought India is the world and US is in some place within India
On my third standard, in an exam I was so urgent to pee. I asked my teacher but she didn’t allow me. Then I got an idea. If I pee less the cloth will absorb it and nobody will notice. After about half an hour I am still peeing in small drops. The teacher came and saw a river running down my bench. From that day onwards, I have a special permission to pee at any time I want.
I use 2 pickup everything like mattress n shoes n keep them in the sofa n cover them with blanket as I felt even thy need 2 sleep(I was in the 3rd grade)
i used to think people in tv sleep when it is turned off
I used to think actor Rajinikanth (tamil actor) is a real fighter, after seeing him fighting in films.. One boy gave me a rap with his knuckles on my head and I went to my father and cried to him to take me to Rajinikanth to hit that boy in return.
n movies those days, to show the speed of the car, the person who drives the car steers the steering this side and that side very fast, probably during some chasing scenes or during an emergency. From that day I believed that Faster u turn the steering, faster goes the car … Only when we got a car @ home, I knew about the accelerator..
When I was young (8yrs old) I asked my uncle “who adds fuel to the sun? how does it burn continuously?, My uncle replied me that scientists go near the sun in rocket and pour some Kerosene and come back every week… I believed this till 5th std…
I hated summer heat, I wished those scientists would drop the sun in an ocean and turn it off… And by this process the entire water in the sea would evaporate and
I can easily go to America, London and other countries in a bus…
I also wanted to tie earth and some other planet with a Huge Chain O—O (Like this), which stops earths rotation resulting in Zero Gravity, we can fly…
i use 2 think tht wenevr da movie gts old it turns in2 black n white;)
well…we,me n my big b(just 2 yrs elder) used eat close-up (tooth paste) with sugar….nd we used 2 ask our grandma 2 do d same ….hehehe

And yes, I got tired of quoting the quotes all of them so is simply stopped.
Until next time , bye.

2008 was the year..

2008 was the year I

-Made new friends
-Met new people
-Surprised a few people
-Got an unexpected roomie
-Got an awesome roomie
-Severed old ties
-Repaired some new ones
-Switched to Airtel
-Got internet in Room
-Got chucked out of class
-Reported for my first training
-Bunked the very next day itself
-Got sloshed
-Din’t miss the Great Calcutta Durga Puja
-Did miss the NIT Trichy one
-Saw Liverpool finish a heart-breaking 4th
-Saw Liverpool climb to top of EPL at half-season
-Attended my first Festember
-Coordinated my first Festember
-Attended my second Pragyan
-Got two certificates for managing one event
-Din’t bother to go for Dalal Street
-Officially got into Civil Engineering
-Flicked a broom from the department
-Made Mess B my alternative mess
-Made Buhari the regular one
-Gave fundaes to juniors
-Learnt basketball both on the ground and on EA Sports
-Watched thousands of sitcoms
-Watched millions of movies
-Escaped birthday bumps
-Completed my first real nightout (12-9AM)
-Sent my first proffing mail
-Expanded my Gmail list and got active on Okku
-Declared Messi as God’s own Winger
-Got up at 7 for survey classes