When you search for something on Google, at the upper right in the light blue bar there’s a note of the number of results Google found and how long it took them to process your search. Someone at Google apparently has a skewed sense of humor. Once I saw one of these, I had to [...]

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So….. some ex-Google engineers have launched their own search engine: Cuil (pronounced “Cool”).
They claim that its index is 3 times the size of Google’s. Great!
They say it focuses on on-page content for relevancy. Great!
I would love to see a good solid competitor for Google. I would love to see a search engine that focuses more [...]

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I used to work in corporate public relations, and produced a lot of printed materials: magazines, newsletters, that type of thing. Printers and typographers have a saying: “All bold is no bold.” Meaning, if you boldface everything on the page, it’s the equivalent of boldfacing nothing, because nothing stands out.
This has relevance to the world [...]

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