Perspectives

I was listening to “Boulevard of broken dreams“, one of my favorites of Green day on one of the radio stations in bangalore. During the course of the song, Billy Joe Armstrong sings

“Read between the lines..
whatz fucked up and everythings alright”

In a desparate effort to conform to what is plausibly Information and broadcasting ministry’s regulations..they had to insert a beep. Unfortunately, I heard the entire god-forsaken word before the beep arrived. I couldnt stop bearing a smile.

That got me thinking how they do this entire music censorship! I mean, does someone sit and listen to all the songs waiting for the adult word and insert this beep ? Or, does the censorship board take all the songs that has ever been and run it through some voice recognition system that can insert the beep? Can this system identify Billy Joe Armstrong’s fuck and Dave mustaine’s and James Hetfield’s?

Wow! That must have been the most amazing voice software ever written. AFAIK, even Google is having trouble recognizing people speaking, forget singing

Google has removed yahoo India maps from it’s index. Artifically, forcibly and manually. For a search query such as “yahoo india maps”, or “domain:yahoo.com india+maps”, I dont think there is any other site more relevant. Secondly, all the blogs that announced Yahoo maps’ arrival are very well in it’s index. And each one of these blogs have an inlink to in.maps.yahoo.com. Heck, even my pic on flickr is turning up. Googlebot knows how to reach the site then, right?. Not that I say technorati is right, but from what I see there, organically in.maps must atleast be third in the result list.

But that is not what is interesting. I saw in.maps.yahoo.com on google’s first search result page yesterday.

Dear Google, Do you know what you mean when you say “Dont be evil?”

Yours truly.