Right from the moment I heard the Last Lecture, I knew this day would come sooner or later. No one can change the impending. But the way you lead your life, is not only exemplary but also inspiring for us mere mortals. Yes, I do call myself a mere mortal, because looking at you, I realise how stupid we are. How we fight for petty things in life. Thank you very much Randy, for touching the lives of millions of people around the world. No one has moved me so much in life as you have, with your hour long lecture!! You will always be remembered, honored and respected.
July 25, 2008
July 23, 2008
Automatic HomePage Finding
For my Machine Learning course , I have to develop an intelligent system that can automatically identify Official Websites for search queries. For people interested in the details, you can read more about it here Project Proposal. I have to submit the completed project by August 5th, and I haven’t started implementing it. So, in any case I have decided to maintain a journal of the next few days leading to the completion of the project. I will jot down all the ideas, updates and everything else on this blog. Without further adieu, lets get the ball rolling …
Update : I successfully completed my project and handed it, on time
. For the mathematically inclined, I achieved a ten-fold cross validation accuracy of 80.48%. For details, read the complete report.Automatic HomePage Identification
July 10, 2008
GenieKnows where your business is …
After four years in the making and patiently waiting, Genieknows finally launched its local search engine. Its a tremendous achievement for a very small company, who dares to dream big. I still remember back in early 2005, when I joined the R&D team (P.S. I was the third member
), I was kinda skeptical about the prospect of our product. Working weekends, overtime, we slowly trudged towards our goal. Keeping the emotional rants aside, I just want this wonderful feeling to sink in. Obviously this is not a finished product and we are continually trying to improve it. We are very well aware of the stiff competition that we face, neither do we have the resources nor the financial clout to compete directly with the other G
,but that does not bother us. As Randy Pausch so rightly said, “Do the right thing and the good things will come to you…”, Thats all we are trying to do, “Keeping it real and Keeping it local”. In some future posts I’d discuss some of the cool features of our product and may be some secrets about ranking higher in Genieknows search
July 9, 2008
People don’t search the Web on weekends!!
I have been analysing the traffic on this blog for about 6 months now, and I have observed a steep fall in the number of page views over the weekends. Even though I only get about 50 pageviews a day(mostly through google search), that number plunges down by 70 – 80% during the weekends!!. Due to the technical nature of my blog, most queries that I rank for are only searched for during weekdays. My guess is, its mostly students and computer science professionals, who apparently don’t seem to work over the weekends
. Anyways, it would be really interesting to see some study on the distribution of keywords in Google search, over a week.
