Abhilash Pillai

Google has introduced voice search in four indian cities. That means now you just need to call 1-800-41-999-999

You can hear the results read out and even can get it by SMS.  So no need of any kind of browser to search now. Just make a completly free call and search. To add some spice this service is available in English, Hindi and Telugu.

Read Google’s official page here: http://labs.google.co.in/phonesearch/index.html

You might have already read the news of Google launching an operating system for netbooks may be in the next year called the Google Chrome operating system. Its already made official at the Google’s blog : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

However many wonder whats next? Whether we will have an operating system on the lines of windows or mac from Google? In my personal view I would prefer something different, not a desktop operating system but an online operating system from Google. The OOS

Wonder you have an operating system with a button start and menus like, Google doc excel, Google doc word, Google calender, Gmail, orkut, youtube, wave, chrome, blogger, picassa, an online anti-virus system which will keep centralised tracking of viruses found, and the list goes on..

In short you have an OOS ( online operating system) wherein, you don’t have to take a backup of your PC when you decide to format, bcos everything you do is already stored online with an option to share it or not to share it with others. And this would be what I would expect from Google, an OOS instead of an OS. An operating system for net users rather than desktop users. Imagine a situation where Google OOS has become so handy and popular that people without a net connection start to get connected for the benefit of using Google’s OOS.  So this might help increase internet penetration too.

Welcome to the world of Online Operating System – Google’s future operating system

SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) is the process of tweaking a website and other off-site factors to make it rank on search engine results for specific targeted keywords. Example: You create a website on fashion designing , its not necessary the site would rank in search engines like google.com when u search for ‘fashion designing’. SEO does exactly that, it helps you rank your website for targeted keywords.

Basically SEO can be white hat ( acceptable by search engines ) and black hat (Unacceptable methods). Using black hat methods may get your site banned entirely from the search engine.

So when one refers to as SEO, its mostly the ethical SEO or white hat SEO, which is acceptable by search engines. Search engine companies like google usually don’t have a problem when you optimize a website for a keyword which is related to the site. Example, if your website is of two wheeler automobiles and you are trying to optimize it for the keyword ‘two wheeler sales’ , thats absoultly fine with the search engine companies. However, if you try to optimize the site for trucks and trains, then you are hitting the red button and this kind of SEO is unacceptable for search engine companies.

SEO is a profession where you have to apply your own ethical principles and to find out whether a method is right or wrong is to question yourself, whether the method dampens the credibility and reliability of the search engine. If the answer is no, then the method most probably is a white hat seo method.

Finally my first post about SEO hits my blog and its all about choosing SEO as a career option. A person who does SEO is most often known as a Search Engine Optimization Engineer or even a Search Engine Marketeer nowadays. A SEOE or SEM can work in a company or independently.

For whom is SEO suitable as a career?

Very difficult to answer this one but still I will start with for whom it is not suitable as a career option !

1. If you are looking for a easy job then SEO is not for you.

- Yes, its tough

2. If you don’t like failures then its not for you.

- Yes, every SEO engineer will fail at some point of time and its all about starting all again from scratch. So if you are the one who gets depressed by failures, then its not for you.

3. If you don’t like to stay updated.

- If you just need a profession where you want to learn something and do that for the rest of your life then SEO is not for you. Its a continuos process where you have to learn new things every single day. A set of rules which work today might not work after 3-6 months.

4. If you cannot search and find answers.

- If you cannot find answers on google, yahoo for any doubts you have then SEO is not for you as one needs to collect as much stats one can have to learn more and more each day. One should also know and understand English for self learning so as the experiment and implement it.

For whom is it most suitable?

1. If you laugh at failures and fight back:

Yes, if you have the gutts to try harder than before you fell then SEO is a perfect career for you. If you love failures as you want to succeed multiple times. If you know you need to fall to rise everytime.

2. If you get bored by repetative jobs:

SEO is all about change. There is lot of change going on and you need to stay updated always , so everytime there is something new to do like in a creative field. So if you get bored too soon from a repetative job then you might love SEO as a profession.

3. Willingness to share and gain knowledge:

The most important part of SEO, is it work harder to gain knowledge and create a group of SEO friends and stay updated on the latest trends in SEO. SEO higly depends on Search Engines like Google and Yahoo Search . So you need to keep updated as and when there is a change in search engine algorithm.

4. Think like a robot:

If you can think on a set of rules example, like a programmer who thinks of a flow chart then SEO might be lot easier. Even though this is not a necessity it helps if you have this quality.

Alltogether one needs to understand that SEO is more about experience and staying updated. And nobody is perfect in SEO like there is no perfect driver. Some people drive nicely, some can drive fast, some drive poorly and so is SEO. There are SEM’s who can rank well , others who can’t rank that well.

About how hard SEO is : ” A Joke :”

I was passing by a church and read a board which said ” Jesus never fails !” and beneath that line some new SEO guy wrote, let him SEO a site

More posts on SEO to come later including, what is SEO, how it all started, how is it done and whats in store for future !!

After experimenting with lot of automated wp stuffs, finally decided to blog again. As always not sure how long will I be able to keep blogging, as I usually tend to switch to other things in the middle. Hope this time its different.