Another search rival to Google cropped up, this time maybe a bigger one, CUIL.
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It claims itself as the biggest search engine on the planet.

Cuil’s hype is understandable given its claim of indexing 120 billion web pages compared to approx 40  billion by Google.

Some quick facts about it:

1. Most popularly being pronounced as COOL.

2. Cuil is an old irish word for knowledge.

3. Its robot web-crawler is named Twiceler.

4. Cuil’s two main goals as pointed out clearly in the about section of the search engine is: One-how to index the whole internet, not just a part of it and Second-how to analyze and sort out its pages to get relevant pages.

5. Main features of its search are Drilldowns, Roll-over definitions, tabs and navigation suggestions.

6. The main people in its foundation are TOM COSTELLO, who has earlier worked mostly in IBM
And Anna Patterson, who was a key person in the technical line of google adsense and google search index.
Both of them happen to be spouse.

But on the performance front the search engine failed miserably.
The news of its failure is floating all over internet. It can’t even produce relevant results for common words and queries. In that way it can’t even challenge rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft, Google is still a distant dream.
If you want to test it, just type its name in Google.com and Cuil.com simultaneously and see the difference. Holes like this in the search engine can put it into grave forever.
Right now, Google still rocks.

The only thing that went into its favor was large investment, which enabled it to build reliable cluster of servers. Most of the new start-ups are launched with lots of pomp, but crash (die) as soon as the initial users and traffic increase. Atleast cuil was able to survive that phase and did reasonably well.

Egg No -1:

Open Firefox browser. Click on the address bar and type “about:mozilla” (without quotes) and hit enter.

Click on the image to zoom:

You get a red colour screen with the quote:
“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.”
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9 (10th Edition)

Click on the image to zoom:

Egg No-2:

Open Firefox browser.
Enter the following in the address bar:

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

press enter. What you can see is “Firefox within Firefox”. You get as many browsers within browser, as many times you type the code and press enter.

Click on the image to zoom:

Famous and very interesting, Google cheat sheet. It contains all information about, all the services of Google, about Google-bot, Google search keywords and many more….

Get to know the technical details of Google.

Download it here:

Google cheat sheet

“iGoogle”, is the company’s fastest growing service along with e-mail. Google won’t specific how many people use iGoogle, but says the number is in the millions.

iGoogle, is the customized homepage given to users.

Google began to add more fan-fare to its famously plain home page, nearly three years ago when it offered its users the option to include stock quotes, weather forecasts and other features.

Google last year introduced its first set of skins for iGoogle, which were internally developed and consisted of mostly simple landscapes.

The emphasis on graphics illustrates Google’s evolution from, a once-pure Internet search engine, into an all-purpose Web site that offers e-mail, video, news, photo sharing, instant messaging, shopping and mapping services…..and the list goes on…

Know more : http://www.google.com/artistthemes

Repoted on UK Timesonline website, Google image search is going for a major update/enhancement that will change the way Google searches images around the web and tags it.

“Google has unveiled a technology which it says will make the task of searching for images on the web far simpler and more effective.”This new technology will search and rank images. the same way Google pagerank does webpages. Till now most of the image search is doen on the web, by looking for keywords around images, mainly captions.

“By treating images as web documents and their similarities as probabilistic visual hyperlinks, we estimate the likelihood of images [being] visited by a user traversing through these visual-hyperlinks,” said Shumeet Balujaz, a Google researcher, in a paper he co-wrote with a colleague from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In a trial which compared the results for the 2,000 most popular queries on Google Images, the new algorithm was found to reduce the number of “irrelevant images” by 83 per cent in comparison with those returned by the existing Google Images search, the researchers said.

This new engine will join a number of new techniques employed to search the visual content including the new engine by Blinkx, whuch has developed an engine to search videos.

This is the list of the secret/suspicious domains purchased by Google i grabbed from various sources:

• georgle.com
• glogoo.com
• 30dayfitness.com
• essentialmommy.com
• thesecretofburritos.com
• goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com
• googlelovers.com
• googlereligion.com
• bankgoogle.com
• kuwaitgoogle.com
• google-yahoo-porn.com
• checkoutsucks.com
• googlepoo.com

I have drained whatever sense of domains, i have gathered, on thinking the use of most of these domains purchase. But still i am clueless about the intentions of Google in doing this.

One more domain, purchased reported way back was http://www.gbrowser.com . Speculations were hot that Google is roll its own web browser, but nothing came out.

Now let’s see what happens with these domains??

One strange search engine i came across:

http://googlepirate.com

The search engine clearly indicates it has no connection with Google.com, but still it uses Google to search the web, but with something it calls Google-hack, strange??

Impression:The search results are exceptionally accurate and refined, worth a try.