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And this is the battle of the new age, Ladies and Gentlemen! Google vs. Newspaper (and not yet Rupert dude!)

So it all started with Rupert suggesting that he will (or can, or whatever) block Newscorp Sites from being part of Google. Basically, stop Google from indexing them and thus not showing them in search result. Because Google friggin hasnt made all that content, which has supported the lives of random journalists (only half of whom are actually needed to write that shit!) and so doesnt have any reason why it should show all that content when being searched for.

So Eric, comes back with a stellar response! If not for the battle, the sheer honesty and clarity in his thoughts makes it for a fantastic read

With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame. Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit from the business relationship without giving much in return. The facts, I believe, suggest otherwise.

Google is a great source of promotion. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000 opportunities a minute to win loyal readers and generate revenue—for free. In terms of copyright, another bone of contention, we only show a headline and a couple of lines from each story. If readers want to read on they have to click through to the newspaper’s Web site. (The exception are stories we host through a licensing agreement with news services.) And if they wish, publishers can remove their content from our search index, or from Google News.

t’s understandable to look to find someone else to blame. But as Rupert Murdoch has said, it is complacency caused by past monopolies, not technology, that has been the real threat to the news industry.

Brilliant!!

Not that we didn’t know it…but its fascinating…and equally scary…to see how much of data has google stored through that one single username password of yours..! Gmail, Orkut, Reader, Search, Youtube, Alerts, GTalk…we dont realize how much of time we spend on Google products everyday and how all of those actions are being stored

Google released its DashBoard feature this week, which helps users with Google accounts to shit in their pants looking at the amount of information that lies with the company.

For starters, I have:

• over 18,000 received emails,
• over 7,000 sent mails and
• over 5,o00 chat conversations

saved in my GMail account!!! Holy friggin shit…!

And oh…in the month of October, i executed more than 10,700 google search queries…ALL of which are stored…!

It is scary…and also jaw-dropping…to realize that a single entity knows so much about possibly every young individual in this world!! EVERYTHING!

Phew!

Amit Varma pointed me to this great piece of analysis, in his blog entry. Well…he didnt point ME to it…but it just sounded cool…as if we are like chuddi buddies…(but hey…he does listen to me!)

so…inspired by the analysis, i thought of doing so at my own level. The results are fascinating..to say the least

Communications in the consulting world…follows what we call the Pyramis Principle. You start with the conclusion (your company is f***ked)…and then proceed with why you say so. So..here are the conclusions

1. Women truly think that men are horny, deceitful bastards (which…might be true!)…who can only think of sex, multiple partners and the next episode of baywatch (or now…big boss uncensored)

2. Men are just pissed off with the fact that women are mean, all they know is to cry, be crazy…and why the hell do they always have a headache…!

and here is the dope (am just using the number of google results as an indication…)

1. Why do men like breasts

Honestly…its a question am sure a lot of men have also asked…and after 5 seconds of thinking on the same reacted to themselves…wtf am i doing thinking about this…(ofcourse…i am assuming that most of these pages are targetted at women…again most of them gullible and potential buyers of breast enhancement techniques!)

2. Why do women work

this honestly seems to be a wtf…!! why in this world would someone be interested in this question anymore…so as to have 207 million results! i mean…balaji telefilms might have some 200 employees who potentially ask this questions everyday…cause thats what motivates them to portray their women in the way they do…! but 207 million results! wow!

3. Why does my husband look at other women

well…well…well…i will believe that this is a rhetoric…

4. Why does my wife not like me

hahaha…now we know where the previous question comes from…friggin men dont think their wife likes them…we poor souls are just hunting for potential other wives…who again will not like them…! wonderful…this means that we have to revise the business plan for secondshaadi.com…its much bigger dude…!

5. What are men thinking

i know the answer to this…i really do…! and its NOTHING…! most of the time…we men…are thinking…nothing..! we are just…walkin…hangin out…blank…staring at women…but still nothing…there are no thoughts…! i know its hard for women and einstein to accept this…but so be it…! we are also…not thinking…of what women are thinking…about what we are thinking…! we dont care…!

6. What are women good for

now…this is just so typical of us…and frankly its a mean question…! cmon dudes…i know they behave the way they do…and once they starts crying there is very little that men and shahrukh khan can do…but cmon…they deserve a lot more than 737 million results for such a question…!

7. Why are men better than women

now…its  a fair assumption that its not women who are searching for this…! which makes this quite laughable…and narcissistic! why would a sane guy type search for “why are men better than women”…! and then to have 251 million results for the same!! its like aamir khan searching for “why is aamir khan the best” (which might have made sense had he actually suffered from the ghajini effect!)…or worst still…ankur warikoo searching for “ankur warikoo”…(which i admit i do…and hey…we ALL have done at some point of time…! incase you havent…do it…its friggin awesome..! unless ofcourse you are rohan chopra…an ex-colleague of mine…who figured that a porn story had the same name as the protagonist!)

8. Why are women better than men

Hah…! so women are guilty of the same crime..! but hey…before you really jump to that conclusion…the fact that there are only (only!) 65 million results for this…compared to 251 on the other side…it might imply that a lesser share of women are actually searching for this…! maybe they dont need the answer…they just know it..!

9. Why is my husband so mean and why is my wife so mean

both feel the same…cant really blame anyone…!

10. Am i in love

all said and done…the mean women and the bastard men…and the both politicians…”am i in love” generates an astounding 1 billion results…! thats an entire india finding an independent result for this query…! love finally conquers…!

google finally rests its case!!!

PS: the above are only the number of results that google furnishes. what will be even more interesting to actually see if people are searching for these…! basically…we have covered the supply side…but hey…the demand still remains..!

even more interesting…will be the actual content of the top results of the above…! i just went to the first link on “why men like breasts”…and didnt need to move ahead