{"id":2618,"date":"2003-01-18T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/what-is-this-world-coming-to\/"},"modified":"2003-01-18T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:32:17","slug":"what-is-this-world-coming-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/what-is-this-world-coming-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this world coming to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone visited this site searching Google for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=gandhiji+machines\">Gandhiji + Machines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nothing surprising in that, except that my blog entry- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?Requestid=39\"> I have come to bury Gandhiji<\/a>&#8211; is the <i><b>first <\/b><\/i> site that comes up in the search! <\/p>\n<p>Which is more, notice the <a href=\"http:\/\/ramz.blogspot.com\/2002_11_10_ramz_archive.html#84473458\">fourth result<\/a>? It is <i><b>another <\/b><\/i>blog entry written by one N S Ramnath <i><b>responding<\/b><\/i>  to my polemic! I hadn&#8217;t seen that earlier.  He makes some interesting points. In particular, he interprets non-violence in a way that would fuel an arms race. <\/p>\n<p>This means either that:<\/p>\n<ol><\/p>\n<li \/>Google&#8217;s algorithm still somehow gives a high weight to blogs ( because of linking, frequent updates, etc.) OR\n<li \/>My site has become wildly popular. OR\n<li \/>Gandhiji&#8217;s actual views are badly underrepresented on the net.<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone visited this site searching Google for Gandhiji + Machines Nothing surprising in that, except that my blog entry- I have come to bury Gandhiji&#8211; is the first site that comes up in the search! Which is more, notice the fourth result? It is another blog entry written by one N S Ramnath responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}