Cuil’s arrival on the search engine scene is has been a modest one, (Techcrunch defined their modesty as ’stealth mode’). It’s a brave step to venture into a world that giants like Microsoft haven’t yet been able to become category leaders in, and under scrutiny which seems to expect them to be as good or [...]
Topic Archives: SEARCH
Will Carocean.co.uk Sink or Swim?
July 31, 2008 – 8:25 am
Now I love my cars, I really do. It’s like a curse, I really can’t help it. Spending an early Saturday morning trailing the classifieds on Pistonheads.com is a sad and lonely pass time (with one eye on the penny jar) which I enjoy. So when I heard that a new ‘Car [...]
Searching Rich Media
July 29, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Google has been indexing Flash since 2004 but the underlying technology that powers millions of front pages and zillions of banner ads has defied the kind of interrogation that makes it truly searchable, until very recently. At the beginning of July, Adobe released what it calls Searchable SWF technology but although this is a step [...]
Google tops 1 trillion URLs..
July 28, 2008 – 6:11 pm
With all the noise of new product launches, and more innovation, it is sometimes hard to remember the original search battle was over index size. Namely, how many pages did each search engine index?
On Friday Google [in what seems to be a new spirit of openness] announced they had topped the 1 trillion mark. That [...]
Yahoo BOSS and the odd description of Daylife
July 24, 2008 – 12:43 pm
OK, Yahoo launched BOSS last week [Build your own search service] in attempt to find market share in this tough [for them] market. You can find out more about BOSS here, or read my review of BOSS and opinions around its ability to save Yahoo over on Chinwag.
One of the first search tools out the [...]
Google to buy Digg?
July 23, 2008 – 9:52 am
StrategyEye this morning published rumours from ‘multiple sources’ that Google was in the final stages of aquiring Digg.com the market leading social news service. The rumoured price tag is $200m which seems quite fair in this near hysterical market [remember the $1bn to $15bn valuation of Facetbook?].
The details are currently sketchy and we will post [...]
Microsoft Launches Charity Search Engine
June 24, 2008 – 9:45 am
Microsoft has entered the charity space with a new US search engine called Search and Give. www.searchandgive.com. The premise is simple, sign up to the service [using your MSN/Live account details], nominate your chosen charity and start searching. Microsoft tracks the searches for the year and then delivers a cheque to the nomiated charity at [...]
From blog to search - how quickly can a blog post be indexed?
January 10, 2008 – 1:24 pm
We have been watching our blog posts to see how quickly they can be indexed by Google. This is an important little test as we can start to see the immediacy of content being fed into Google, which adds to the importance of having regular, relevant content published on a website. The last post we [...]
Recommendations as Search Results
December 28, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Recommendations have always been an important part of any decision making process when seeking out what you need. And the art of recommending is officially as old as the hills, so it comes as no surprise that in this modern age, a recommendation still holds a lot of weight.
After posting my last article about the [...]
