About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
On Twitter
- RT @JJHensleyauthor: Shout out to all the domestic terrorists being arrested because they had their cell phones on them while attacking the… 4 hours ago
- This is what a real lockdown looks like. Stay safe, my DC/MD/VA friends. (The hearts are some of my favorite places… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- Nixon’s ghost *really* doesn’t want that comparison. cnn.com/2021/01/14/pol… 4 hours ago
- I remember my SPG ambassadors. Dedicated people I could call, email. They’d take care of all of my travel needs. Ha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
- RT @ashishkjha: Thrilled to see David Kessler leading Operation Warp Speed At FDA and elsewhere, David was known as the guy who got stuff… 5 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
Top Posts
- Groupon, LivingSocial and daily deals - merchant FAQ
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- LivingSocial merchant agreement
- Searching vs. browsing
- A phone that could only come from Apple
- Because manholes are round
- Google SMS - a way out of voice recognition hell
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
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Daily Archives: May 16, 2007
Google knows people misspell my name
I’ve been seeing more people search on my name to get to this blog this week. (Wonder why?) This search was interesting: Notice that the searcher misspelled my last name, transposing the “a” and the “r”. I don’t have “Agarwal” … Continue reading
Yahoo’s new, improved maps
I was geotagging some pictures on Flickr and noticed that Yahoo! Maps has dramatically improved. Things that jumped out at me: Improved legibility. High contrast and easy to read. Subway/mass transit stations. They are the small blue circles you see … Continue reading
Posted in google, maps, transit, yahoo
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