tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27867108766065609882024-02-08T04:26:41.226-08:00Goolti.com - Review Desi Consultants in USA/IndiaHarshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-81779065021984306802010-11-16T10:30:00.000-08:002010-11-16T10:41:13.783-08:00What to do if a company is threatening me for posting on the forum.Lately, I have been getting several emails from several <a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti </a> users about companies threatening them to remove the posts they have written on the forum. These users are mostly first time entrants into US and are looking for information on the forum.<br /><br />The companies that do not want to be mentioned in the forum, quickly threaten the users with a lawsuit. The users get scared and write me emails to remove the posting.<br /><br />I would like to tell all <a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti </a> users that these are tricks played by companies to scare you off and remove their tainted pictures from the forum. Don't fall for this at all. If a company is serious about a lawsuit it will hire a lawyer and that lawyer will send you an official Cease & Desist (C&D) letter. An email carrying a American sounding name at the bottom and a lawyer sounding degree cannot be an official declaration of a lawsuit.<br /><br />If one does not respond to the C&D, only then the company can move ahead and launch a lawsuit.<br /><br />So if you get threatening emails from some <a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti </a> company, absolutely do not worry. They are just playing with your mind. Just direct them to the legal section of <a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti.com </a> and I will take care of the rest.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-19783727778624688872009-10-22T02:12:00.000-07:002009-10-22T02:14:33.578-07:00Goolti.com was down for 2 days. Apologies for inconvenience.Due to some issues with my hosting, I had to keep the site down for 2 days as I solved some technical issues. Apologies for the inconvenience.<br /><br />It's back up now.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-52606706931630844132009-10-05T03:56:00.000-07:002009-10-05T03:58:29.406-07:00Goolti gets featured on MSNBC BusinessweekGoolti.com got featured on a Business Week article.<br /><br />The name mentions on page 3 of the article and in the last para where they are talking about websites who are trying to bust the fraudulent Gooltis.<br /><br />Here is the link<br /><br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33145705/ns/business-businessweekcom">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33145705/ns/business-businessweekcom</a>Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-88561929960489217022009-08-24T12:29:00.000-07:002009-08-24T12:33:34.241-07:00Removing the BusinessWeek BannerBusinessweek wanted to produce a H1b Fraud related story. It wanted some volunteers to come forward and tell their stories. However, after running the banner for more than 2 months I couldn't get anybody. Nobody seems to be willing to speak to the Media about the hassles they go through when dealing with Desi Consulting firms. Its sad to see this. Makes me think whether I am fighting for the right cause. <br /><br />I gave up all hope and removed the banner today.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-1341299166027921892009-08-17T11:29:00.000-07:002009-08-17T11:30:51.183-07:00Out of connectivityApologies for late postings. I was out of internet connectivity for a while and hence couldn't post.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-12753598758439976842009-01-23T04:28:00.000-08:002009-01-23T04:32:06.416-08:00C and D from ObjectwinThis time is ObjectWin technologies. I got a letter threatening a lawsuit. In the letter they even mentioned that if I display that letter somewhere on the web, they'd sue me for Copyright Infringement. <br /><br />My advises to all to deal with this company with extreme caution.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-78410461739019286242008-09-23T01:39:00.000-07:002008-09-23T01:41:31.387-07:00Paging introduced - Popular DemandI've introduced paging with the comments on popular demand. Some goolti companies have more than 30 comments for them. Loading all the comments at one time was becoming quite a performance hit on the servers. Also, it was not a good user experience. Hence, paging has been introduced.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-20379169140866806142008-08-25T05:24:00.000-07:002008-08-25T05:29:52.207-07:00The launch of http://docstock.inTaking a cue from the success of <a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti.com</a> I started realizing that there are many spaces where Public reviews/opinions will be very useful. <br /><br />Hence, I've launched <a href="http://www.docstock.in">http://www.docstock.in</a>, a review site very similar to goolti.com. Its intended at finding the right doctors/clinics/hospitals across India for satisfactory medical treatment.<br /><br />Please visit the site and contribute for public good.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Harshal VaidyaHarshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-27975940699495694272008-08-08T00:59:00.001-07:002008-08-08T01:01:29.258-07:00ApologiesApologies for multiple things. Writing Reviews & Search features were down for more than a week. Actually, I was too busy with work and family issues and hence couldn't get time to properly test all the features. I got a day free yesterday and fixed all the issues. Let me know how do you find the new Search by Region feature. All kinds of comments are welcome.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-21714729666237467212008-07-28T01:13:00.000-07:002008-07-28T01:17:19.063-07:00This months biggest spammersAs you guys already know, I get a lot and a lot of spam. These spam posts are mostly from the Goolti's who want to raise the general public opinion about their company which is in fact tarnished. <br /><br />This entire month I would like to award a Goolti company which goes by the name of "APEX Technology Group", the SPAM award. Their employees have been spamming the Goolti forum with about 6 posts EVERY DAY!<br /><br />They thought they could game the system, but then there are intelligent people all over the world :-)Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-83960057926051671682008-06-09T02:17:00.000-07:002008-06-09T02:19:00.695-07:005 Days of downtime<a href="http://www.goolti.com">Goolti.com</a> is up after about 5 days of downtime. Unfortunately the hosting providers were migrating their servers to a different platform and messed up during the migration!Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-73928130902038007602008-03-27T00:25:00.000-07:002008-03-27T00:44:05.490-07:00Introduction of CaptchaThere has been heavy spamming by automatic bots from last few weeks. I was manually rejecting around 20-30 spam posts everyday. This was becoming a huge headache. <br /><br />To control this, I introduced captcha which completely avoids the autobot spam successfully. The captcha is now fully active.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-74715116112651830982008-03-24T10:24:00.000-07:002008-03-25T11:05:28.930-07:00Lawsuit threat from Avenir AssociatesAnother one, this time its Avenir Associates. Some law firm PS Legal helped them to threaten with a Cease & Desist letter. I have removed all their comments.<br /><br />The entire cease & desist letter can be viewed <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=430015">here</a>Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-25263813738398011562008-03-14T03:48:00.001-07:002008-03-14T03:51:46.601-07:00Clarifying my roleI constantly keep getting emails from people requesting me to provide reviews on specific Goolties.<br /><br />I would like to clarify here on my blog that I only run and manage this site. This site has been my brainchild and I take care of it. It was meant to be a forum for people to communicate their experiences.<br /><br />I personally have worked only for one Goolti till now and hence cannot possibly have reviews for the multitude of companies for which I am regularly emailed.<br /><br />If you want reviews on a specific company just post it out on Goolti ! :-)Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-23768841664114675942008-02-10T22:09:00.000-08:002008-02-10T22:15:52.832-08:00"This company sucks. Avoid them" - Such posts will not be toleratedI get more than 20-30 posts everyday for approval. Many of them have only one liners in them.<br /><br />Something like "This company sucks. Please avoid them". This kind of a post does not give anybody any idea as to what is wrong with the consulting company. There is no detail regarding why the company is bad. Since its not of much help to the readers I'm not going to allow such posts to get through approval.<br /><br />If you really want to help the readers please write a post with some amount of detail as to why a company is good or bad.<br /><br />Half baked posts without a tinge of detail will not be allowed.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-70854830190728249462008-02-06T08:40:00.000-08:002008-02-06T09:03:19.456-08:00Lawsuit threat from Vision SystemsYet another lawsuit threat, this time from Vision systems. I observed that the firm Herten, Burstein,Sheridan,Cevasco,Bottineli,Litt & Harz LLC is sending me a C&D for the third time. Last two times the notices were from some other companies. It seems that this law firm is not doing well since it has no other work than accepting clients who want to threaten people from free speech.<br /><br />You can see the lawsuit copy <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/Docs/356908/Cease%20&%20Desist%20Notification%20from%20Vision%20Systems">here</a>Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-91368614236306561692008-01-28T22:52:00.001-08:002008-01-28T22:55:24.596-08:00Silvertide software urging me to remove commentsSomebody from Silvertide software called me yesterday asking me to remove the comments for his company. Prospective candidates are inquiring with them about the comments posted on <a href="http://www.goolti.co,m">goolti.com</a> . Will keep you guys posted if I hear further from him.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-78164785916998090412008-01-11T23:46:00.000-08:002008-01-11T23:50:47.483-08:00Lawsuit threat from S Cube SoftAnother one. Lawyers from S Cube Soft have threatened of a lawsuit raising concerns over -ve comments from <a href="http://www.goolti.com">goolti.com</a> users. They mentioned in their letter that users are questioning the credibility of the company after reading the posts on Goolti.<br /><br />All the comments have been removed.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-63348346278747736002007-12-21T14:15:00.000-08:002007-12-21T14:21:54.003-08:00Lawsuit threat from CEI AmericaI got a call from Legal Consul for CEI America today complaining about the offending posts about the company. Throughout the conversation he was trying to give me numerous hints that if the comments are not removed the next step for them was a legal action against me.<br /><br />Hence I had to remove all the content. Its surprising that within one year of the website being live not one soul from this company who enjoyed working there had the heart to write a good opinion about them. Forget that, there is hardly any website at all where there is a good opinion about this company!<br /><br />Makes you wonder what these guys do for a living!Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-43470575395956355112007-11-15T09:00:00.000-08:002007-11-15T09:05:06.931-08:00Lawsuit threat by Adequare IncThis post is to report that I received a legal action letter from Adequare Inc today. The letter threatened to file a lawsuit against me if I do not delete all the comments from the <a href="http://www.goolti.com/">goolti.com</a><br /><br />Since I cannot afford the expense of fighting back I have removed the posts from the website.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-62954188846964684472007-07-30T07:10:00.000-07:002007-07-30T07:12:25.126-07:00Know at what date was the comment posted onThe date on which the comment/opinion was posted can be seen now. This was a missing feature wanted by many users and was added recently at <a href="http://www.goolti.com">http://www.goolti.com</a>Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-52027471180191318562007-04-19T19:56:00.000-07:002007-04-19T20:10:47.773-07:00Now you can email the people posting opinions on the forum<a href="http://www.goolti.com/">Goolti.com's</a> undergone its spring season upgrade.<br /><br />The upgrade now makes it possible for people posting on the forum to tag their email addresses along with their posts/questions. If others are interested to talk to you further on your opinions or question they can now pick your email addresses and mail you directly.<br /><br />I believe this will be immensely helpful for people who want to desperately talk directly to someone who has already worked for the particular <a href="http://www.goolti.com/">Goolti (Desi consultant)</a> company or knows quite a bit about the company.<br /><br />I've received several emails from users to provide email addresses of the people who posted their opinions on the forum. This is an upgrade to help such users out.<br /><br />The spring season will see several more upgrades to <a href="http://www.goolti.com/">Goolti.com</a> which will increase the usability and the user friendliness of the site. Stay tuned.<br /><br />P.S. - To protect the email addresses of the users from falling into the hands of the spammers the email addresses are not directly published on the site.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-82612931623141956202007-04-07T13:12:00.000-07:002007-04-07T13:26:48.095-07:00Avoiding the LoginI have been consistently being told via user emails that one of the first things I should do it get users to login into the site. Several times I myself feel that thats the way to go.<br /><br />Disgruntled employees from a Goolti (desi consulting) companies will time and again try to impersonate as someone else and keep slandering the company and its Management. Up till now I've been continuously monitoring and mentoring the forum to detect these slandering and defaming posts and deleting them promptly.<br /><br />I agree that getting users to login will enable be to determine and restrict these posts. However, I don't see how will it stop such attacks totally. If someone wants to defame some company he/she can open a fake email account and start posting under impersonating names. Given this fact there is absolutely no need to let the users create a login id on the site.<br /><br />I guess the best way to keep the forum clean from anti-social elements is to keep moderating it affectively. And I guess I am doing that.<br /><br />I would like to know what the <a href="http://www.goolti.com/">Goolti.com</a> users think of this. After all if majority of the users express their desire for a login I will uphold their demands and enhance the site for login functionality.Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-13235605922972909052007-02-26T17:50:00.000-08:002007-02-26T17:51:44.912-08:00Goolti.com is up againThe site is up and running again.<br /><br />ThanksHarshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2786710876606560988.post-7552228735247939112007-02-26T07:41:00.000-08:002007-02-26T07:43:12.801-08:00Downtime regrettedThere has been a programming messup due to which the site is down today. It will be back up by tonight. Inconvenience is regretted. Please bear with me for today!Harshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05771238610679096796noreply@blogger.com0