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Cuil wants to be a Google-killer

1 Comment / Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / July 28, 2008

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is a brand new search engine that claims to have indexed over 121 billion Web pages, and also claims that that’s 3 times as much as any other search engine including Google. Interestingly, just a few days ago, Google laid claim to crawling (although not necessarily indexing) 1 trillion Web pages.

So will Cuil succeed in beating Google at their own game? Well, for starters their executive/technical staff are a bunch of Google expats, so it’s quite possible, but on the other hand, Google has quite an impressive foothold now in the search arena, including mindshare with the public. After all, “google” is now a commonly-used verb. I can’t recall other search engines ever having that claim to fame, even within the geek community. Read on for a mini review.

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The magnitude of the Web that Google indexes

Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / July 25, 2008

Google recently hit a milestone in the quantity of web pages that they process – 1 Trillion (1,000,000,000,000)! And that # is growing daily by the billions. One trillion isn’t the total # that they index b/c there’s a lot of duplicate content, but still… try to turn that number over in your head. And even more impressive is that they update the linkages several times per day.

Microsoft luring users to its search engine with cash back

Miscellaneous / By Khalid Hosein / May 22, 2008

Microsoft is at least for now, aiming to become the Discover Card of search engines by bribing… luring … ummm.. encouraging users to its Live Search site with the cha-ching sound of cash.

Just one catch. You need to follow links off of Live Search to vendors associated with the program and make a purchase.

Oh yeah, you gotta get up to $5 worth of rewards before you can claim it. That tells us that you shouldn’t expect to make very much money back from this. Time will tell if they actually make any inroads into Google and Yahoo’s search engine market share.