Did you mean: SUMMIT Ramani
May 19, 2007One fine Saturday morning (actually afternoon 
) when I woke up I thought of googling my name ( Sumit Ramani ) to know my popularity index. It took 0.15 seconds for google to aver:
Did you mean: SUMMIT Ramani , enough to spoil my weekend. As most of you might have guessed, I rattled off everything that came to my mind.,thank God nobody was around .
I thought to try to search for same on other search engines but could not muster up courage for almost three hours. After much deliberation, I typed my name on yahoo, with my eyes almost shut . Sumit Dhar’s Page (Hey, no offense indented ) was the first result 
. Obviously, Yahoo deserved severe punishment for the sin. But this time I decided to go Mahatma Gandhi way, non-violence. I took an oath, “I won’t you use Yahoo from now on”. Soon I realized, to imagine a life without yahoo messenger is difficult 
,what followed next was obvious
Things didn’t end here, hesitantly I tried Live Search by msn. I scribbled my name in search bar and pat came the reply:
Were you looking for “Summit Ramon“ ? .Was wondering what restrained search engines from saying something like “Who the hell is Sumit Ramani ?” After all, there responses were equally brusque .
The big question is where exactly the problem lies, with search engines or with me?
My take: Search engines have long way to go!!
Dare to comment??
well , the above blog seems to be a liitle hillarious to me in its own way . what i feel is that everyone of us has a quest for real identity in a global place . some do establish it . some cant . but the bottomline is not the act of establishing ur identity but the earnest desire of doing so . and its this desire , or rather this drive which has prompted the writer to explore the existence of his very name . some may suppose it to be a futile attempt which will culminate into nothing(or maybe something) but what intrigues me is this desire driven into the psyche of a person prodding us to ponder beyond the naive act done by the writer .
Nice to see your blogs, Its just a start of your journey.
For answer to your question, “where exactly the problem lies, with search engines or with me?”, I guess the problem was in your searching. Just try your name with quotes (e.g. “Sumit Ramani”) and you will appreciate the results of Google search engine.
Thanks Sanjay,
Yeah thats true. But what I am aiming at is like this, if you type SUMMIT Ramani, Google should prompt you by displaying Did you mean: SUMIT RAMANi
arey accha hai google ne yeh nahi kaha. Did you mean: “Submit Ramani”
Why the hell is Google the authority to decide the waves that your name creates….you can be a Pornstar…(u have the talent .:P) and you ll be famous…I am not being critical….
A world where Ostenstible manifestation is more important than being true to yourself….even Britney Spears’s dog will have more hits than you ever would have even if you were a Pornstar(a famous one for that matter)…
P.S. – I dont have a fetish for or against Pornstars…it just one of the professions where you may have a meteoric rise in no time and hence many hits on the ubiquitous GooGle…
Well Zubin probably this will make sense if you understand the page-rank mechanism of google..