Now the News has been announced that Raghu is joining Yahoo Research. The News.com piece says: Yahoo hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, 45, as vice president and Yahoo research fellow in charge of defining the strategy behind Yahoo’s “social search” system, based…
Consistency VS Wow
NYT has an article (by Saul Hansell) comparing features offered by Google and Yahoo and their acceptance by people. The basic question is: Do Internet users prefer services that are consistent and predictable, like those offered by Yahoo, or are…
UCI CAP: Council on Academic Personnel
Today a dinner was hosted at Dele Ogunseitan’s residence for the 2005-2006 UCI CAP members. Since I served on this committee for this year, I attended the dinner. This committee helps university administration in their decisions related to appointment and…
Bangalore Hotels
This time I am staying at The Chevron Hotel. Located on Infantry road, this hotel’s location is good. It is a clean and neat hotel — does not have the ambience of Taj or Windsor or Leela, but has good…
Travel Experiences
(This post was completed in two places) I am here in the new terminal at the Domestic airport in Mumbai. It has at least Jet and Sahara Airlines at this airport. This airport was opened for services in the last…