| 9:45 PM: | Cuil Misses Me. Call me egotistical, but if you can't find yourself in a search engine after a decade of littering the web with your presence, I'm thinking it's not much of a search engine. Chris Brogan. | |
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| 9:42 PM: | New search engine takes aim at Google. The most important difference between Cuil and Google is its ranking system. Rather than assigning priority to pages based on inbound links as Google does ("Pagerank"), Cuil analyzes the content of Web pages to divine their relevance to a search query. Webware. | |
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| 9:40 PM: | Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? Cuil provides what appears to be a comprehensive index of the web, a unique display presentation and emerges at a time when people might be ready to embrace a quality "underdog" service. Danny Sullivan. | |
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| 9:36 PM: | Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine. Cuil claims to have better search results than Google and others based on how they index websites. They do not simply catalog keywords on a site and then rank the site based on its importance. They also work to understand how words are related (France - cheese - wine, for example), to return more relevant results to users. TechCrunch. | |
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| 4:38 PM: | Many Fans of L.E.D.'s Say This Bulb's Time Has Come. L.E.D. bulbs have replaced standard bulbs in many of the nation's traffic lights. The bright, long-lasting bulbs are starting to show up in some high-profile places too. NYT. | |
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| 12:06 PM: | How To Build a Headless Laptop System. If you've got an old laptop with a busted monitor and nothing left on your warranty, don't trash it. Instead, consider the route taken by a user on the MacNN forums, who beheaded his laptop. Lifehacker. | |
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| 12:04 PM: | Palringo Instant Messenger Comes to the iPhone. Currently there's only one application available that lets you connect to all your IM networks, saving users the time and pain of switching between clients ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 8:15 AM: | EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming. BitTorrent streaming is the ideal low-cost distribution model for online video. TorrentFreak. | |
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