Sanjay Varanasi

If you’ve been reading through my last few posts, you might have noticed my anti-google ideas and efforts to stay away from it. I’ve been hoping to find an alternative to Google all along, and am happy to atleast see a prospective replacement for the same.

It seems like an team of ex-google employees have decided to take on the web giant - Google itself. Cuil - pronounced as ‘cool’ is what they have managed to come up with.

Already, I could find people on the web moaning about the way Cuil handles search results. The layout, the search quality etc.

I’m not sure about the quality, as I’m yet to really put Cuil to use, but the searches I’ve done so far have left me quite unhappy. That aside, as far as the format of the search results go, I must say I’m really happy. For the first time, some web company has taken the effort to do something that differs from the usual Googlish looking results page(though I still hate the routine usage of blue for titles and green for the links). Search results have been scattered ( in a good way) all about the page, with some description of websites to go along with it. This, I think is a useful feature.

Anyways, I just added Cuil to Firefox using a link on their website’s footer. A few days of proper usage and testing will decide the fate of this hopefull challenge to Google.

Its been literally months since someone has heard this from my mouth. Ever since I started living alone in a room in the US, I stopped getting bored, coz I literally had no time in between all chores, and I had made quiet a few friends by the end of the semester.

Now, I’m in India. Initially, I explored many known and unknown places in Hyderabad, and also had lots and lots of fun. Now, I feel I’ve nothing better to do than to laze around all day with the computer, watch TV, go to the Gym, eat, and sleep. Once in a while I do watch a freaking movie. And thats all. In all these days in Hyderabad, I’ve not made a single new friend, neither have I done something new.There is nothing I do here that I cannot do in the US.

Today, for the first time in mo-o-o-nths I’d say I’m bored. If you have any suggestions to get me out of this boredom, please feel free to comment.

Yep. I had started the countdown at 56 days to go back home. Now I have exactly 28 days to go back to the US. I had thought of doing a lot more than what I actually have. I explored tons of unexplored place at Hyderabad, and have watched so many movies I just lost count. (Btw, I’m watching one tomorrow and one the day after). I made a trip to Warangal to refresh old memories. I’m also planning to make a trip to Ramagundam - the place I spent most of my childhood and teenage years. Sometimes I feel like I’d never been to the US, and was in India all the while. But, when I think of the Aug11th deadline, my heart skips a beat or two. I feel sad, and nervous whenever I’m reminded of the fact that this is only a trip. Then I realise that the trip to the US has done me a lot of good, and has gained me a lot of experience and there is more to come when I go back. I hope to come back to India as a polished, well-experienced, and confident man.

If possible, I’d like to sneak a trip or two to places (anywhere in India) I’ve never been to. Alone. It’d be a nice adventure.

Meanwhile, I still have a few things pending, the first of which is to search for a nice topic for my Graduate project, so I can start working on it as quickly as possible. Then come shoes, ties, clothes, non-perishable food items and more.

Each day spent is one more day lost in this trip to India, and I want to make the most of it. I wish to back to the US with pleasant memories of this age-old country.

Cya!