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Freelancers: How much do you know Google?

April 14, 2016

Freelancers, Google, Google Search, India Programmers, Sundar Pichai

On September 4, 1998 people learned of a new Internet company called “Google”. I remember those days. People told me that “there must be some catch.” People would tell me “if you use that Google thing, next thing you know is that you will be receiving tons of emails and advertisements.” People would say things like “It can’t be any good if they are giving it away for free.”

But, as history has taught us, it sure can be and is quite good. In fact, it is so good that in 1998 when Google was initially launched, people were making about 500,000 searches per day on Google and today people are making 2.3 million searches PER SECOND on Google. Did I just say “2.3 million per second?” Yes sir, I did. That is nothing short of unbelievable, but true.

Google is so prevalent on the Internet that in 2013 when Google went down for for 5 minutes the GLOBAL INTERNET traffic dropped by 40%! Now that is power. Did you know that when you ask Google something, it actually takes OVER 200 THINGS into account about your question before giving you an answer – and it does all of that in about 1/8th of one second!

This is, of course, why Google is one of the world’s most formidable companies. It is even more amazing, when you think of it, that such a formidable company is now headed by someone of Indian decent. Yes Sundar Pichar, of Indian decent, is the Chief of Google.

As I have written previously in this blog, we in India need to feel quite proud of our countrymen who have left India and have created excellent names for themselves. We also should feel equally proud of the countrymen who did NOT leave India and who are doing great things here in our home land.

IndiaFreelancers.com is just such an achievement. On IndiaFreelancers.com we have some of the best and the brightest web designers, programmers, database engineers and technical professionals in all of India. The quality that the world has come to expect from those of us in India, is here on IndiaFreelancers.com.

So the next time that you use Google remember two things: 1) A person of Indian origin is chief of that tremendous company and 2) Maybe the next genius who can make something as great as Google may be the programmer or web designer or database expert who you hire or work with on IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: An Indian name for Google?

March 29, 2016

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Android, Freelancers, Google, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai

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First we had Sundar Pichai of India as the new CEO of Google. What next? Well, the possibility that the next version of the popular Android mobile phone platform will have an Indian name. That’s what’s next!

India and Indians are, almost on a daily basis, making a splash on the world’s stage. Long gone are the days when India was considered a quiet, sleepy country. We are arriving and have arrived. The name or the new Android version may indeed have an Indian name – but apparently it has to start with the letter “N”.

What are our choices? Who knows. Some have suggested Nirmala or Neha Dupia or New Delhi. Of course, we will not know until all of the voting is completed, but the very fact that our own son is now chief of Google and that he has brought home to India the possibility of an Indian name on the next Android version is a sign of our arrival on the world’s stage.

India, and the excellent tech that comes from India, is slowly but surely becoming a world standard and a world’s admiration. Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella did not become CEOs of some of the most important and recognizable companies world wide by chance. It is their India roots that have contributed to their prominence. These same India roots are on display every day in the high quality of the programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com. There is not a day that goes by when someone does not comment on the quality and excellence of our technological members of IndiaFreelancers.com. And well they should. All of our excellent and wonderful technological personnel on IndiaFreelancers.com have in their hearts the same India roots which propelled people like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella to the pinnacle of their careers.

So when you next think of and consider advising someone of where to go to find the best programmers and/or web developers. Remember that the excellent programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com may someday be the next CEO of a large American company – and may be bringing an important thing home to India like the next Android version – for an India name.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: US Supreme Court and Surgeon General

March 16, 2016

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Freelancers, Indra Nooyi, Satya Nadella, Sri Srinivasan, Sundar Pichai, Vivek Murthy

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In so many ways, the new century of the years 2000 is the century of India. We are growing in India in so many ways. We have a very rapidly growing economy. In 2015 India’s economy was judged to be the fastest growing economy in the world with a growth rate of 7.5 percent. This was faster than even China’s 6.9 percent growth rate for 2015. The World Bank also projects that India will be the fastest growing economy for 2016.

But our growth and increasing world status is measured in the quality of our sons and daughters. Indra Nooyi is a prominent daughter of India who is today the CEO of Pepsi. Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Google. Indians are slowly, quietly but most definitely rising to the highest positions in the world and showing the world our quality.

Now comes the position of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are reports that President Barack Obama of the United States is going to nominate Judge Sri Srinivasan to be the first Indian to the Supreme Court of the United States. He is very well regarded in all judicial circuits. In 2013, he was confirmed unanimously to the Washington DC Circuit Court . That was an amazing feat for a court which is considered to be the “introductory” court to a Supreme Court appointment.

Why are these things I have mentioned above relevant to our freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com? Well, the reason is because our excellent and outstanding programmers, web developers and technical experts on IndiaFreelancers.com com from the same high quality source as the people who are today the CEOs of Microsoft, Google and Pepsi. Our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com share the same quality heritage as the possible future justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dr. Vivek Murthy, the current Surgeon General of the United States.

So, as I always tell our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com, please remember that, as you do your work and answer your customers, your quality – and all of India – is on display. You are ambassadors to the world of the outstanding quality that is India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Start in India – end up in Google

March 14, 2016

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Freelancers, Google, Indra Nooyi, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai

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In July of 1972 a boy was born in Chennai, Tamil nadu, in India. How could we imagine that that boy would go on to some day be the CEO of one of the most well known companies in the entire world? That boy is today known as Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundarajan) and he is today the CEO of Google.

This is what we on IndiaFreelancers.com know so well. We in India have the abilities to be the best in the world. We have produced people who have created, invented and changed so many things in the world for the better. Today there are Indians who are CEOs and heads of companies such as Pepsi (Indra Nooyi), Microsoft (Satya Nadella) and Adobe (Shantanu Narayen). Indians are running things all over the world.

And where do they get their start? They get their start with the strong work ethic and strong sense of family and community that they learn as young lads in India. They learn to respect hard work and perseverance. They learn to respect their elders and love their families – and they take these lessons as “gifts” with them to go out to the rest of the world and bring glory to India. They let the world know that India is tomorrow’s economy. India is the world’s future.

Once upon a time the world thought that the next USA would be Japan or, more recently, China. But we have seen that this is not the case. Japan’s economy has decreased very much over the last decade and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal reported (January 19, 2016) that China’s economic growth in 2015 was the slowest rate of growth for the last 25 years.

But that is not the case with India. We are growing – and growing fast. India is today one of the most impressively developing technological countries. For all of our persistent poverty, we have large cities developing like flowers blooming. Technology, and web sites such as IndiaFreelancers.com which bring the world’s employers in contact with the wonderful minds of our great programmers, web site designers and other technological wonders in India are the bridge between the world and our wonderful young minds.

So please do not worry if today you are working as a Freelancer on IndiaFreelancers.com. This is your stage and your chance. This is your introduction to the world. The world – and its employers – are waking up to the beautiful diamond which is India and websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com serve as the introductory means by which these two worlds meet (the world’s employers and India’s outstanding tech professionals) and, if you will, marry.

Many a young person started on IndiaFreelancers.com, was discovered by a major employer on the website and was then hired to go to the employer’s country to grow with them. In India, I do not think we are wrong if we feel as if the 21st century is ours for the taking.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com