Posts Tagged ‘search-engines’
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Can Cuil rival Google at search?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Most talks in Tech town since yesterday are sure to include a mention to Cuil. Pronounced “cool”, a newly launched search engine, built and founded by former Google employees. Cuil claims to be indexing more of the web than any of its rivals, including Google. It also promises an innovative approach to searching, unlike any [...]
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New lower “g” Google favicon… what were they thinking?
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google went right ahead and changed their favicon from the familiar, blue, upper case “G”, to a lower case, lighter blue “g” with a grey-transparent gradient background…
WHY!?
First thought when I noticed that, was my browser had been hijacked and that I was at a phishing site or fraudulent Google imitator. I think that might have [...] -
Ask Jeeves no more
Friday, February 10th, 2006
Ask Jeeves is about to let one of the most recognizable search engine mascots - retire. Jeeves, the valet (en-US: butler) who has since 1996 kept people company during their web searching, is going to be “phased out” as the company Ask.com is trying to reposition their brand. More on this story can be found [...]
