Google and You :P

This is the first short story of Vikram Galgotia, one of the protagonist in my debut novel, Exotic Engineer Entrepreneur.

"Vikram Galgotia", Vikram lazily typed in Google.com not knowing what else to search for. Post lunch, after a heavy meal in the cafeteria, he was feeling extremely drowsy. He especially blamed the curd but could never resist gulping a cup down at the end of the meal. Curd and Code do not go together. Let alone code, with eyes closing and the screen getting blurred, it was impossible for him to direct the mouse over to the Outlook Icon. He tried twice but fell asleep when the mouse was almost there and opened Internet Explorer instead. After IE opened for the second time instead of Outlook he decided not to try again.
The Google search results made him jump. He never thought he was so famous. But there it was, the truth staring at him. The first ten links were his; his facebook profile, his LinkedIn profile, his blogs and even his school! His school? He never knew his school had a site. He clicked it. His name was listed under his tenth class photo. He went through the list and felt joyous remembering the names of his old chums.
"I am famous", he muttered to himself happily after Google returned with accurate links the second time.
"Well, though not very good academically, I was a boy scout at school. Topped two class tests which were especially tough, got admission in a decent college for higher studies. Engineering was not so bad too and now a job in an MNC", he started musing.
As he reiterated over his past, he began to wonder why he never realized he could be famous. This knowledge had made his day. No longer drowsy, he started working.

Thousands of miles away, in Googleplex
"Did you find a way to test our improved search algorithm?"
"Yes"
"How do you do it?"
"Locate someone who is very insignificant and run a search on him"
"How do you plan to locate someone so insignificant?"
"Through social networking sites"
"Did you find anyone?"
"We narrowed down to one person in India"
"Run the test"
Vikram Golgatia. The Google computers whirred and clicked and displayed the results successfully.
The room erupted in celebration.

That night, among millions of people who celebrated birthday parties, promotions, wedding anniversaries, golden jubilee etc etc., two celebrations were strangely connected. 
Vikram Galgotia celebrated because he realized he was quite famous, at least Google knows him. The employees of Google celebrated because their search engine could now dig out information about the most insignificant person on earth.