Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav has done it. He has not only done shooting, Chandigarh, Punjab and India proud but also craved a name for himself in the history books by becoming the first ever individual to win an Olympic gold for India.

Surprise and ecstasy marked the instant reaction of the city on the unique achievement of the local lad, Abhinav Bindra. His “bulls eye” in the 10-metre air rifle shooting finals at the Beijing Olympic fulfilled the dreams the nation of a billion but for Chandigarhians it was a special moment that they’ll never forget.

It was like a festival at St. Stephen’s School as students, teachers and the principal of the school went gaga over there former student Abhinav Bindra’s triumph who has done the nation proud by clinching the first ever individual gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

Sitting idle, thinking what to do…I decided on making another useless post.

My friend on a recent visit to HongKong, got me this Ultra-Slim Apple iPhone Cover Case or rather an iPhone Pouch! It’s velvet i guess… and it has embossed “iPhone” written over it. Totally black and it looks pretty cool.

I thought it was a gift. It in fact is a gift. The only issue was that i had to pay for this gift!! Damn!

iPhone Pouch

As my friend Sumit Bahl suggested in my previous post “Maruti Swift Dzire – Owned!“i needed to put some better quality pics of my new Swift Dzire. I took the last pictures with my iPhone. So obviously i wasn’t able to get too much quality. But now i clicked some more pics with my Canon IXY Digital 25 IS. No questions regarding the quality this time.

Here are some new pics:

The Pics were originally 3648 x 2736 in dimension. I have resized them to 800 x 600 !!

And i will keep on posting more pics, time n time again

P.S. I know i am not a great photographer

It’s been a long time since AllyDirectory.com and SharatJaswal.com have been online. I have been waiting long enough for Google results to show up correctly!

Now, as many of you must have noticed, when you search for particular word and mis-spell it, Google automatically adds a red line just before the search results saying “Did you mean….”. It’s called the spell check. It corrects the mis-spelled word and asks you if you wanted to search for the right word. And so far it works great.

The only problem i face is with some particular n personal search words. For example:

"Ally Directory" Search At Google

Google has been kind to give “Ally Directory” some sitelinks. And it’s been months now. Yet when i search for “ally directory”, Google returns the results with a red line in front saying “Did you mean alley directory”. Well no buddy, i did mean to search for Ally Directory.

Similarly with “Sharat Jaswal”. This is equally amazing. I exist on most of the social networks. I have a personal blog that is just my name. But Google search will still return “Did you mean Sharad Jaiswal”

"Sharat Jaswal" Result In Google

Argggghhhh! Who is Sharad Jaiswal? Why not when we search for “Sharad Jaiswal”, we get the spell checker saying “Did you mean Sharat Jaswal” ????

Anyways…there is a simple answer to this. Google, being such a vast company and such a huge search engine takes care of billions of sites or even might be trillions. It’s not gonna look specifically at the word “Sharat Jaswal” or something. They have brilliant algorithms and it’s all working great. So how do i improve the results and spell checker?. Simple! Let Google know about it.

When you search for a particular phrase or keyword in Google, go to the bottom of the page. Google asks you if you are Dissatisfied with the results. If Yes, click on that link to help them improve. And they are not just saying it. They mean it too. It’s true, Google does listen to you, No matter what many webmaster’s say about it. Yes, i do wish it was great in three more niche: Soft Corner for Directories; If they could forget the paid links things and continue as it always was and if they can have better algorithms for calculating PageRank. Just a dream. Internet shall be a better place once again.

Ishmeet Singh

This comes as a shocking news.

The recently chosen voice of India, Ishmeet Singh is no more.

This 19 year old singer, with such great talent won the Voice of India in November’2007. At the tender age of 19, he became famous all over India because of his lovely melodious voice. He was a true star!

He was in Maldives on a promotional event with some music company. He was swimming in the hotel pool of Male, Maldives, when under unknown mysterious circumstances, he died. News channels says he drowned in the swimming pool but no one knows the exact reason.

Ishmeet Singh, such a young boy with such great talent was truly a gem. He was so much soft spoken, honest, courteous and a handsome boy. He will be truly missed. Rest in peace dear Ishmeet