Review of Cuil

A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states,
Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page [...]

Online Advertising Budgets Increase

While automotive advertising spending dropped 14% compared to the same period last year, online spending increased. Except for one channel: online marketing. Internet spending was up 57.9% last year.
Why does this matter? Automakers are the biggest advertisers in the US. General Motors, the fourth-largest, spent $535 million in Q1 2008 alone. So [...]

Can Google Index Flash?

After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really.
How Google Crawls Flash
The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little [...]