Connect Raspberry Pi to Personal Computer without knowing IP Address

{Archived from aravindalokam.com}

Connecting Raspberry Pi to a desktop/laptop for programming purpose initially requires you to connect the Pi to a network and then a monitor to see the IP address assigned to your Pi. You can then connect to Pi easily by entering this IP adress, into Putty or a VNC viewer.

Wait. What if you don’t have a monitor and no access to a router?

All you, have is just the Pi, it’s power supply , a Laptop and an ethernet cable. (Or you can even use lap’s hotspot if you have it).
Install Apple’s Bonjour service from here:

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL999?locale=en_US

Raspberry Pi’s default identification name is “raspberrypi.local”. After installing the bonjour service, reboot the laptop and Enter the identification name I said without quotes in to search field in the putty or VNC viewer.

Voila! You can connect to the Pi without knowing it’s IP adress!
You may follow this guide for more information and reference:
https://www.howtogeek.com/167190/how-and-why-to-assign-the-.local-domain-to-your-raspberry-pi/
I used to get route to host not found error constantly while trying to connect to pi, but following this method helped me fix it.

Challenging Google’s search indexing bots using SEO

 Originally authored on March 25 2019, archived from aravindalokam.com


I am the usual unlucky google search guy. I rely on almost everything relating from my work to daily chores on google search, and most of my valuable time is spent on simply searching on google to find my stuff. At times, I will not get any answer on the first page, and there have been instances of me reading results and hunting for my answers up to 5th or 6th page.

Reason?

Google has been deliberate on web developers that it rely on website’s meta data for it’s crawling. So, developers optimize their meta tags to include stuffs relating to their content. I feel that sometimes, it could be misused by people putting all sorts of possible keywords in their meta tag. This would bias the search indexing. Also good websites with content but poor SEO often fail to appear in search results, because of bad SEO. So, our required content may be there somewhere in the web but is not benefiting us.

Who to blame? Not sure. Perhaps, in near future AI can understand this biasing and would give us better results.

NB: This is what I felt, because nowadays it has been very difficult to search and find a way. I feel the search results are too many and cluttered.

Suggestions are always welcome. :).
peace. _ /\ _