What is the Meaning of Google?

I am an Internet freak. Each day I search about 4/5 topics in the net with the help of  Google Search Engine.

Then One day suddenly one question came to my mind :"What is the meaning of Google?Where did the name google come from? What does google stand for ?". I again searched in Google and found some information. I have shared those informations in my blog.

The verb to google refers to using the Google search engine to obtain information on the Web. The American Dialect Society chose it as the "most useful word of 2002." It was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006,and to the eleventh edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in July 2006.The first recorded usage of google used as a verb was on July 8, 1998, by Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!"

Googol is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.”

Goooooooooo,oooooooooo,oooooooooo,oooooooooo,oooooooooo,

oooooooooo,oooooooooo,oooooooooo,oooooooooo,ooooooooooGle

is indeed derived from Googol
10000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,

0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000,0000000000.

That is 100 zeros!
Keep Googling!!!!!

Machal Lalung --who spent 54 years in an Indian jail without facing trial.

       Seventy-seven year old Machang Lalung was arrested in 1951 from his native village of Silsang, 64km (40 miles) from the state's main city of Guwahati.Police said that Mr Lalung, who is from the Lalung tribe, was booked for "causing grievous hurt".The offence normally results in 10 years imprisonment.

       But police said there was no evidence to support the allegation, so within a year of his arrest, he was transferred to a psychiatric institution."It seems the police just forgot about him thereafter," says Assamese human rights activist Sanjay Borbora.

       In 1967, the authorities at the institution certified Mr Lalung as "fully fit" and said that they intended to release him.But instead of being freed, police transferred him to another jail."Even at this point, the police did not send him to court to face trial, they just kept him in prison," Mr Borbora said.Strangely, even his relatives and family members forgot about Machang Lalung.

       Lalung died on December 25, 2007. Freedom at the Edge is a short film by Aneisha Sharma, based on Lalung's story.

Tooth made out of bamboo, Bamboo bicycle made by Mr. Dodhi Pathak from Assam

Mr. Dodhi Pathak is an unique innovator of articles made out of bamboo. He was discovered in a mela (rural fair). He is around 48 years of age. He firmly believes in the adage “ necessity is the mother of invention”. Having suffered a poverty stricken childhood, he faced many difficulties in life which reinforced his faith in his ability to innovate. The seeds of the innovations were laid when Mr. Pathak had to buy a second hand cycle for himself. He was not able to buy one as it was very costly. So he thought of constructing a cycle with a locally available raw material i.e., bamboo. With this idea in his mind Mr. Pathak was able to make his dream come true. He is a very good singer of folk tunes.

Teeth made from bamboo:

He has designed artificial teeth from bamboo. The innovator has made it for own use. His two incisors on the upper jaw are the proof of the utility and feasibility of this innovation. He can chew anything and eat all types of food including mutton and fish with the bamboo teeth

Bicycle made from bamboo:

Designed and made a complete bicycle by using bamboo for all parts except the tyre and tube. Initially when he rode it through the lanes in his village, many people stared at this new bamboo bicycle.

Hand pump made from bamboo:

He has developed a working model of a hand pump, which is suitable to lift both underground water and pond water. This pump is totally made out of bamboo, even the piston, valve, barrel, handle and all the other parts.

"e-Choupal"-- By ITC

e Choupal is an initiative of ITC Limited (a large multi business conglomerate in India) to link directly with rural farmers for procurement of agricultural / aquaculture produce like soybeans, wheat, coffee, and prawns. eChoupal was conceived to tackle the challenges posed by the unique features of Indian agriculture, characterized by fragmented farms, weak infrastructure and the involvement of numerous intermediaries.
Traditionally, these commodities were procured in "mandis" (major agricultural marketing centres in rural areas of India), where the middleman used to make most of the profit. These middlemen used unscientific and sometimes outright unfair[citation needed] means to judge the quality of the product to set the price. Difference in price for good quality and inferior quality was less, and hence there was no incentive for the farmers to invest and produce good quality output. With eChoupal, the farmers have a choice and the exploitative power of the middleman is neutralised.
ITC Limited has now established computers and Internet access in rural areas across several agricultural regions of the country, where the farmers can directly negotiate the sale of their produce with ITC Limited. The PCs and Internet access at these centres enable the farmers to obtain information on mandi prices, good farming practices and place orders for agricultural inputs like seeds and fertilizers. This helps farmers in improving the quality of produce, and also helps in realizing a better price. Each ITC Limited kiosk having an access to Internet is run by a sanchalak — a trained farmer. The computer housed in the sanchalak’s house is linked to the Internet via phone lines or by a VSAT connection and serves an average of 600 farmers in the surrounding ten villages within about a 5 km radius. The sanchalak bears some operating cost but in return earns service fee for the e-transactions done through his eChoupal. The warehouse hub is managed by the same traditional middle-men, now called samyojaks, but with no exploitative power due to the reorganised role. Indeed these middlemen make up for the lack of infrastructure and fulfill critical jobs like cash disbursement, quantity aggregation and transportantion.

Due to the eChoupal services, farmers have seen a rise in their income levels because of rise in yields, improvement in quality of output and a fall in transaction costs. Even small farmers have gained from the initiative. Customized and relevant knowledge is offered to the farmers despite heterogeneous cultures, climates and scales of production. Farmers can get real-time information despite their physical distance from the "mandis". The system saves procurement costs for ITC Limited. The model is quite different from the other models, as the farmers do not pay for the information and knowledge they get from eChoupals. The principle of the eChoupals is to inform, empower and compete. At the same time ITC Limited also has extracted value in four steps to make the model sustainable and scaleable:

1.elimination of non-value added activities
2.differentiated product through identity preserved supply chains
3.value added products traceable to farm practices
4.e-market place for spot transactions and support services to futures exchange[citation needed]
One of the factors leading to eChoupal's success is ITC's managerial expertise in executing complex projects and managing costs. ITC Limited adopted a flexible project management approach called "roll out, fix it, and scale up" to deal with uncertainties in a pioneering model.[citation needed]

There are 6,500 eChoupals today. ITC Limited plans to scale up to 20,000 eChoupals by 2012 covering 100,000 villages in 15 states, servicing 15 million farmers.

For more information see my link http://www.scribd.com/doc/24936333/echoupal-case-study

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Hello friends...today I start my own blog..rite now I dont have any Idea about how to start a blog and what to do...

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