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Cuil

Cuil is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power...

Google is your friend

I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don’t look beyond the first three hits (two of which are usually sponsored), etc., etc. Sure, that’s all true, but Google is a lot more than search. I don’t think I’m off base in saying that Google provides the largest, free set of Web 2.0 tools availa...

Building a Profitable Web 2.0 Web Site

There are plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs in the wild world of Web 2.0, and ASOTV.Info is one example, writes columnist Theodore F. di Stefano. On setting out, however, it's vital not to lose sight of one's revenue stream. Competition for building a profitable Web site is quite fierce. Yet many of us have dreams of a unique concept that will attract viewers, followed soon thereafter by advertisers. I'm not sure what percentage of aspirants succeed in this quest, but I would venture ...

That Web 2.0? We are so over that

As much as economic bubbles keep bursting all about us these days, it seems only a matter of time before the same happens to the ultrahip Web 2.0 phenomenon. In fact, as our Brier Dudley noted in his blog last week, it may already be happening, given that even the tech magazines are making fun of the "cool kids" of Web. 2.0. His case in point: PCMag's feature listing the 10 "most absurd" social networks — you know, sites such as Dogster, a network for dog lovers that claims to have three-q...

Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons

Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday. "There's two different kinds of add-ons," Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome." Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, actually works on the Googl...