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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

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

Advertising might just save the world.

Aren’t we all sick of hearing people’s constant gripe about the intrusiveness of advertising in their lives? Haven’t we all wished we could create something more tangible than just make ads? 
How about creating a business model completely around advertising? (Google does it, but then that’s ‘content’.)
Welcome to Blyk. It is a free mobile phone service […]

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Posted by udayan on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Beyond advertising.

Many of you may not know about cricket. (Not the one that keeps you up at night.) In a loose way, it is similar to baseball. The “Batsman” uses a bat to hit the ball that is thrown at him from 22 yards away at an average speed of 80-90 mph. The person who hurls […]

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Posted by udayan on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008