Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said.

Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL — the “Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow,” or Group of Young Artists and Writers — told AFP that Google had turned to the country's IT and telecommunications tribunal to try to stop them using the Web site address www.gmail.pl.

Google charges that GMAiL has no rights to the name, which resembles the US firm's internationally known email service www.gmail.com.

The service is enjoying snowballing global success, encouraging Google to try to snap up variants of the name which use national suffixes, such as .pl in Poland.

Besides turning to arbitrators and the courts to stop so-called cybersquatters from abusing their names on the Internet, companies sometimes pay big money to buy back such domain names.

Krawczyk, however, blasted the suggestion that the poets were looking for a fast buck.

“We didn't buy this name just to sell it to Google. As a matter of pride, we're refusing to give it up,” she said.

“We bought the name legally, with our own money. Nobody gave it to us for free. We refuse to be deprived of what we consider is our property.”

Krawczyk said that Google had not proposed a financial settlement.

“Their lawyer told me that his client had no intention of paying for something which belonged to him,” she claimed.

It was not immediately possible to contact Google's Polish lawyers on Friday.

Krawczyk, a poet and IT fan based in the central Polish city of Lodz, said that at the end of last year her group was surprised to discover that www.gmail.pl was available.

They decided to buy the rights to the domain name in order to raise the profile of GMAiL, which publicises the works of young unknowns who have not yet found a conventional editor.

“Our site has a use. There's no financial gain involved. And we're not competing with the US company,” she said.

Google has also faced problems after failing to be the first one to register local versions of its domain name in Britain and Germany.

when i was trying to add my blog in a nepali blog directory blog and i sent a request mail to them to add my blog in their directory . the reply is quite unexpected and i dont give a heck to this.

The reply mail is–

Hello Hem Acharya
Thank u for submitting your blog with us. But, on review, unfortunately, your blog did not qualify the requirements that we look for while listing in our site.
This may be because of following reasons:

If you feel that we are wrong in any way, please approach to our Appeal department by mailing us in this email id and keep appeal as the subject of the mail.
If you feel that you are aggreived and we have done wrong analysis, please draw our attention.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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My answer.

1. is it mandatory for a nepali blogger to write about nepal only. cant he write about technology jokes and other things that interests him.

2. Copy paste. i agree i do but its my blog i do what interests me i just keep a web log ( that what blog is) and in some entries where i have copied from other site i have mentioned the soure site in related link. Being a software engineer copy paste is my habit ;-).

3.so if people dont click on my ads where do i get money to run my blog . u must have noticed i run blog in my own domain ( not in free blog hosting sites like blogger ****.blogspot.com ,wordpress, typepad , etc. ) have u heard about professional blogging? ( well i m not one but still the money which i make from my blog which is very much less , i spend for my site maintenance )

4.people click ads if they find it useful to them .

5.immoral, pornographic, defematory and adult contents —– well i dunno what u r trying to tell me .

A handful of domains were transferred to Google today — all of which are likely related. The one that sticks out is “Google-Express.com” though — it sounds like the service it is referring to will be used for something “fast” or to “expedite” something. Here is the complete list of domains transferred to Google:

GOOGLE-EXPRESS.COM
GET-ME-ON-GOOGLE.COM
GETMEON-GOOGLE.COM
GETONGOOGLE.NET
GETON-GOOGLE.COM
GET-ON-GOOGLE.COM
GETUSONGOOGLE.COM
GETUONGOOGLE.COM
UONGOOGLE.COM
YOUONGOOGLE.COM

The others are clearly trying to get us “on Google” — but what does that mean?

Now here comes the speculation. Given this group of new domains, Google may be getting ready to provide a pay service for webmasters that will help in the quest to “get on Google”. If this is indeed what is happening, the service would probably guarantee faster crawl/indexing speeds.

It was raining heavily outside. Dark clouds gathered in the sky and nature was in its ominous best. I took a break from my work and went to the pantry to grab a cup of coffee. I had a sip and went near the window to see the rain pouring down heavily outside the glass structure. I was inside our huge office building, unruffled by even the fierceness of the nature. Through the heavy transparent glass, I could see a small girl trying to hold on to her umbrella which the wind was snatching away from her. I felt sorry for the girl, and was happy that I was not in a similar pathetic situation. Yes. I take pride for the fact that I am a software engineer. . I have everything which a common man would envy; money, status, respect, you name it I have it. I always wanted to be software professional and here I am, working for one of the best firms in the world. But then, am I really happy? Now, I could see an imprint of my palm on the other glass window, through which I reminisced my past, basked in the warmth of the sun shine.

My childhood was so much of fun. I vividly remember those rainy days, when I hugged my mother tightly during sleeping listening to all the stories told by her. Now, I have a big house here, but then it is just a house, not a home. My parents are pretty far away from me now. I have a cell phone to talk to them everyday, but then I really miss those dinners which I had with my family everyday. I could easily afford to taste all the different cuisines these days, but the best of food there, lack the love and affection which is present in the food prepared by my mother.

I threw a la vish party for my colleagues for my birthday, but then they would never replace the birthdays when my friends secretly brought a cake and at the end, half of the cake would have ended up on my face. The couple of hundred bucks that u save for a long period just to give a treat to your friends in the road side chat shop can never give the pleasure even after spending a few thousand bucks these days.

The scene of me crying and refusing to have dinner on the day when I fought with my best friend came to my mind. Today, she has gone far away from me, taking away my love and with it my life, but I am sitting and coding here with a false smile on my face. Everyday I meet new people, but then I long ceased to make a new friend.

It’s true that I have a lot of things now. I have a nice bed, but no time to sleep. Lots of money, but no friends to spend it with. The latest designer clothes, but a worn out body. Quite a few to flirt, but no one to love. Awards for technical excellence, but no reward for the crave for peaceful ambience. A confident demeanor, but a reluctant and apathetic mind. Full of rain, but no sunshine even in the farthest distance.

Now, I could see the small girl on the road enjoying in the rain with her umbrella firmly in her grip. She might not have all the comforts which I have, but then she has the innocence and fun which I lost a long time back. I have decided to come out of this false fantasy, even if it is at the expense of losing the tap of the software engineer. I am going to again enjoy my life. I am going to go out in the rain and play with the small kid now. I removed my tie, and went near my computer to shut it down. Just then, I saw a new mail alert in my mail box. I slowly opened outlook and I found a message from my manager with an attachment saying that there was a critical defect in the code and I have to fix it soon. I convinced myself that I am not going to get bogged down again by these pressures and stick to my decision. I ignored the mail and went to the rest room. After a couple of minutes, the software engineer in me came out, his shirt tucked in with the perfect tie knot, sat before the computer, and started typing……

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Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt.

The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie, gets out and asks the Shepherd: “If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?”

The shepherd looks at the young man, and then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and replies: “Okay.”

The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Webster, scans the
Ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with logarithms and pivot tables, then prints out a 150 page report on his high-tech mini-printer.

He turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly 1,586 sheep here.”

The shepherd cheers,”that ' s correct, you can have your sheep.”

The young man makes his pick and puts it in the back of his Porsche.

The shepherd looks at him and asks:

“If I guess your profession, will you return my animal to me?”

The young man answers, “Yes, why not”.

The shepherd says, “You are an IT consultant “.

How did you know?” asks the young man.

“Very simple,” answers the shepherd. “First, you came here without being called. Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew, and third, you don ' t understand anything about my business…
Now can I have my DOG back?”