Recent posts: July, 2008


Cuil’s first day at the office: Hype meets reality

It looks like the alarm bells are already ringing for Cuil right from day one. Here is one article that highlights some of the glitches (and they are huge!) that the users encountered yesterday. I don’t get this. When you want to take on the likes of Google you better be a notch above them. […]

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Posted by udayan on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Can this new search engine “un-verb” Google?

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) launched today. I am still playing around with it and it certainly seems worth taking a second look. It claims to have a search index that spans 120 billion web pages (According to Cuil’s developers that number could be three times the size of Google’s index). Cuil’s search is also “Contextual”. And unlike […]

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Posted by udayan on Monday, July 28th, 2008

Why, hello again…

Yea, I know. I’ve been a little MIA, a little lacking in posts, a bit “unavailable”. I’m a horrible person, what can I say. Speaking of MIA, I am in Miami this week for the AAAA’s Planning Conference and am hoping to provide some daily debriefs on the conversations and discussions that […]

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Posted by kunal on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

The napsterization of Ad-busting applications

Until recently people could not do much about avoiding ads other than flipping channels (and see another ad), use a DVR to fast forward the commercials or make use of pop-up blockers to get some temporary relief. But you couldn’t make the ads go away. They just keep coming. But a revolution might be on […]

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Posted by udayan on Friday, July 18th, 2008

Inspiring quotes about recent trends

From Chris Shipley:
“The Web 2.0 Cycle Has Come to a Close. For much of the last three years, technology industry pundits have hyped Web 2.0 as the Big Thing that fundamentally changes the business of the Web. We think it’s pretty clear now that Web 2.0 has been more of a hype cycle than a […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Thursday, July 17th, 2008