Archive for the ‘Thought’ Category

Posted on March 26, 2009 - by Yasser

Twitter may eventually kill Google search…

With time, Twitter or a similar service will kill Google search and every other search engine that we’ve known. We are about to experience the dawn of a new search system that will surpass services like Google search and the others.

The day when search will be powered by Humans and not algorithms is near.

As tens of millions of people go online and share information about their lives and environments, a natural, human-powered, and exceptionally live, metadata index is developing across social networks. It’s powered by Humans and is mostly relevant and ‘alive’.

Billions of pages indexed on Google and other search engines find it hard to compete with something as simple yet highly powerful and accurate like Twitter search.

It’s already happening… a simple search for ‘dubai restaurant’ on Google returns some of the lousiest web pages:

http://www.google.com/search?q=dubai+restaurant

Then try the same search on Twitter Search and you get something quite different:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dubai+restaurant

With millions of people across the globe talking about their lives and sharing their experiences, some of the highest end Google algorithms stand little chance to deliver human experiences like a social network would. Humans serving accurate information to fellow humans.

This may be a time for dreaming up an ideal marriage. Google should buy Twitter and bring together it’s powerful search service and the human experience.

The following screen shots make a point:

Poor results on both Google and Twitter:

I was amazed to see some results on Twitter beat Google fair and square, yet some were ranked poorly due to the negative human factor of adding garbage to a service like Twitter.

Posted on October 7, 2008 - by Yasser

It rains when it rains…

… and tomorrow happens when it happens.

Today is:

a powerful word
a short lived asset
a great opportunity
a true blessing
a goal met
a promise kept
a project done

Today is a lifetime.

Posted on April 25, 2008 - by Yasser

Failure and Success

Reasons why you fail:

Lack of knowledge
Lack of experience
Lack of aptitude
Lack of planning
Lack of execution
Lack of desire
Lack of passion
Lack of will
Lack of intent
Lack of money
Lack of time
Lack of relationships
Lack of support
Lack of sense
Lack of brilliance
Lack of SOMETHING
(add to this list at will)

The reason why you fail again and again:

The process of learning from your mistakes and undoing them one by one. Thereby failing again and again.

The reason why you succeed:

Somewhere down the line, while you are busy failing, you find a way to get it right.

Posted on April 25, 2008 - by Yasser

Destiny wants it later

You want it done now, but destiny wants it done later.

So you give destiny time and sit back.

Time takes you right across to the point where destiny hands you what you wanted.

Get it and you laugh at destiny, forget about everything she did for you.

One day you need something done. But destiny wants it done later…

How selfish you accuse her and never recall her favors.

Men aren’t thankful, are they?

Posted on April 24, 2008 - by Yasser

Honesty anyone?

The problem with honesty is that you’re rocking your boat in a sea of lies.

The good thing about honesty is that you’re rocking a boat that will take you ashore.

To the shore anyone?

Posted on April 24, 2008 - by Yasser

Choose one…

They all say, ‘never give up.’

What they don’t say, ‘Die fighting.’

I choose the latter.

It just feels so awesome to believe so.