Unbelievable - Where are the hits coming from?

Seeing a spurt in the daily visits (more than tripled to almost 100/day nowadays) for the first time, I browsed through the logs of hits that this site gets, and I was so surprized of the outcome. Most of incoming links are from people searching Web in Google, and only one from Google's blog search, one from another site, and no Technorati or other blog engine hits. This was both worrying and surprizing.... surprizing because Google's web search indexes my blog well and "worrying" because no blog search or web search tool is directing to my site for any query (God burn all search engines other than google).

The kind of google searches that was bringing my blog to the top of Google search was mind boggling:

1. the foreign banks which are entering India in 2009
2. about tamil language in tamil
3.CHANCES IIT GRADUATES IIM gd/pi
4.how much gift dollars indian parents children in usa

and the best:
5.rigveda molten lead would be poured into their ears

I dont have an idea of how these hits come to my site and I guess many of the visitors themselves dont know it. Seeing the logs, I found a few good readers spening some time (alteast 5 mins) reading while most had immediately closed or gone to another site. Most of the incoming hits were from XP systems with 1024*768 monitors. The statistics has so much interesting information about who (I mean which IP location) is currently reading what and when it gets wings after a couple of years, I can even cater to those people who read the article to considerable time. Right now I got a work cut out - Make a lot of articles, lot more interesting and relevant as many readers had closed the browser before reading fully :(.

From Madurai to Mustang

Madurai to (Maryland to Microsoft) to Mustang is a short account of what changes I'm undergoing for the last few years. I've start writing them down in my personal journal, as even 18 years before today (out of my total life of 23 years) appears pretty crystal clear to me. I'm now starting to fear about future (death, old age etc.) as 18 years seems to have passed in a whiff. The other day I was watching the "Ten Commandments" movie and suddenly I felt like going back by 10 years. Because even in 1996, I wanted to see that movie :). A number of changes seem to occur at such a stupendous pace that I feel that I'm totally wasting all my time. If 10 years had passed without significant change in me, I feell I'm in the wrong track. Only, time will tell whether I went faster or slower than the expected growth in the past.

Though, it is sometimes gloomier, I'm trying to look at the greener pastures, that from being a rural student to grow into a design engineer for Windows and buy my dream convertible, I seem to have done somthing. Mustang was my dream car, ever since I read an article 10 years ago in the young world. That article had great words about it and my father too agree to a lot of elements in it. To me it represents the quintessential Americanism and a symbol of American Dream and Freedom. The love for sun and free air, the absence of a roof above your head to constrain your dreams (you can always pull back the roof, if you want) and an 8 engine power to drag you easily past 150kmph, the roar of its engine are great. I was hell bent on the red color and finally got for a pricey sum of around $36K (including free maintanence and extended warranty for 6 years, along with a 3K sales tax). I did the calculations, and it seemed that I would not lose as much compared to a civic, if I run it for 6 years and sell it (I would lose $3K in 6 years, and you could request for the calculation). I love this baby and it seems I had grown up a bit the last couple of years.