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Spock Launches Public Beta Version of People Search Engine

Spock is a search engine with a difference. It does not bring up results of webpages or website, but people.

Spock is a people search engine and they have now Read more

Google 2001: try out the old school search engine

Google has just celebrated their tenth birthday, and in celebration of the fact they have re-launched Google 2001 in honor of its birthday. I know what you are thinking, if it is their tenth birthday, how come they are not showing us results from 1998. Google did have an answer bit it is a little technical. Read more

Microsoft Stealth Search Engine: Silicon Valley Team Building

It was not long ago when Microsoft started sending tons of money into the search game for their new Live Search which has still failed to beat Google as they still stand King of the search pile Read more

New Search Engine Cuil: Comparison to Google & Microsoft

We spoke this morning about the new Cuil search engine, which has been started up by a former Google employee and her husband. Now we would like to take a further look at this new search engine and see how it compares to some of the other major players, such as Google & Microsoft.

Cuil founders have said that their search engine does a better and more comprehensive job of indexing online information over their rivals. The technology that Cuil use indexes the web and then understands the context surrounding each page.

Cuil have come out all exited and say that they can take on search engine giants, Google, but I think that they will struggle to do this.

Cuil have said that they use more than 120 billion web pages to build up their index, the search engine say that this is more than Google. We are not certain how many Microsoft index, but it will be less than this figure.

We do know that everything we search in Google, the search engine giant keep and store. I do not think that Microsoft do this. Cuil have said that they will not keep your personal information and this is a great marketing angle, considering everyone is concerned about their online privacy.

Google and Microsoft keep their search results in a classic format, where Cuil makes things pretty by displaying results in a magazine format.

Not once has Cuil said that they want to be bigger than Microsoft; you would have thought that they would set their sites on a smaller search engine, then try to take on the giant.

Cuil say that they move away from the technology that has driven Google to their success. Instead of just looking at the number of quality of links to and from a webpage like Google do, Cuil attempts to understand the information on the page more.

It is amazing at how different each search grabs results from a web page. One thing is sure, Cuil have a mountain to climb before they can match Google.

My closing point: As Cuil has a black homepage, this saves energy. A white webpage will use 74 watts to display, a black page uses just 59 watts.

Have a little play around with Cuil and let us know what you think about it.

Google and Random House considering a book-search project

Once arch-enimies both Google and Random House are considering joining forces and start a new book-search project. The search side of things will obvious is run by the Search Engine giant Read more

New Cuil search engine by former Google employee

An Ex Google employee along with her husband has launched a new search engine today called Cuil, which is pronounced cool. The couple aim to topple Google, they hope to do this by indexing more web pages than Google.

Anna Patterson was Google’s former leader of the search index, her husband Tom Costello, used to research and develop search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The third co-founder of Cuil is Russell Power; he also worked at Google as part of the search indexing team, as well as spam detection and Web rankings. Power is vice president of engineering for the new search engine.

Cuil have said that they have indexed 120 billion Web pages; they have also organized their results by ideas with complete privacy for users.

Cuil say that they aim to be bigger than Google, well they have a long way to go as Google have just announced that they have discovered 1 trillion unique web pages however; it is not certain how many of those have been indexed by Google.

So Cuil said they will be bigger than Google, does not mean to say they will be better. Yahoo is bigger than Google, but we know that Google is better.

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Search Engine Giant Google to offer $30m prize for private Moon landing

Google seems to be getting involved in many projects of late, but this one has to be the most interesting the search engine giant are offering a prize fund of $30m to any private Read more

Google’s MP3 search engine goes live in China

Google has confirmed all the recent speculation by stating that on Wednesday it had launched a music search feature on its Chinese website with contributing partner Top100.cn

From a rumour that first surfaced in early February in The Wall Street Journal, this has now confirmed that Top100 had signed a deal with Google. Top100.cn is a start up which was founded by Chinese NBA star Yao Ming, along with businessman Ge Chen.

This partnership between Google and Top100 hopes to become a more competitive search engine, as Baidu remains the dominant search in China. This looks like to be an interesting rivalry as Baidu currently has around two-thirds of the search traffic in the country, with Google only managing 26 percent. Another interesting fact is that 30 percent of Baidu’s traffic comes from its music search engine alone, it appears that Google has done their homework and are ready to mount a challenge for the top spot.

It’s not all sun and glory for Baidu however as their music search engine contains unlicensed content and that has angered the music industry. Google has another tactic to conquer this as they and Top100 plan to sweeten the labels by giving them a portion of the revenue from displaying various adverts on the service’s pages.

They also plan to give tracks out for free, and without DRM, in MP3 format. There is also talk of a partnership with China Mobile to sell ‘ringback tones’ to customers through the service. Sounds like this could be a successful venture for Google, stay tuned to hear more news on this story as we hear it.

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Search for the US adventurer Steve Fossett is set to end

The search for the US adventurer Steve Fossett is set to end as officials looking for missing American adventurer Steve Fossett after two weeks of hunting in the Nevada mountains and have found no sign of him or his single-engine airplane so far. Read more

Take That Are Number One In Google For Most Searched Gig Tickets

As we all know the Spice Girls are on tour but that does not mean that they are on top when it comes to internet search rankings because boy band Take That have taken that place for the most searched-for gig Read more

Sparkles ignition engine HCCI improves fuel-efficiency by up to 25%

Researchers at MIT have been working on a new kind of Sparkles ignition internal combustion engine. The homogeneous charge compression ignition or (HCCI) is expected to improve fuel-efficiency by up to 25%. The new engine helps to increase fuel efficiency by Read more

Google App Engine: What is it?

So Google have now launched their new App Engine, but what is this new application cloud service all about. This new platform is much different to what we are used to from Amazon cloud app, the Amazon version is a more refined application,

What is different about the Google App Engine is very easy to use and will integrate to all of your other Google services. This is a limited program in the way of the development style, however maybe in the future Google will improve things. However one thing is certain, this piece of software will be very reliable.

Source – Mashable

Warhound: game engine that Bungie should have in Halo 3

This is the game presentation for “Warhound”, which some gamers claim is just a wannabe compared to Crysis but I feel it has the game engine that Bungie should have had in Halo 3 Read more

Gameboy powered by 1936-38 Jensen steam engine: Why?

Here is a video of some guy using a 1936-38 Jensen steam engine to power his Gameboy. Oh just to let you know, the flywheels used is from a later model. The steam engine then runs a small generator which produces 3V DV; this is enough to power the Nintendo Gameboy.

What I do not understand is why any one would want to run their Gameboy on such a noisy and bulky piece of equipment. However I have been told that a number of people run their Gameboy by steam, we live in a strange world.

SolidAlliance 3-port USB 2.0 Hub: modeled on a motorcycle engine

This USB gadget is ideal for people that love gadgets and motors, vehicles, engines and more auto related kit.

The SolidAlliance 3-port USB Engine Hub is modeled after a motorcycle engine and has some cool features which Read more

Far Cry 2: video showing engine powering the PC game

Today we found a video showing the Far Cry 2 engine that powers the PC game for the first time, Far Cry was pretty and this version looks good although we could do with some gameplay footage Read more

GDC 2008 shows of new Unreal Engine III: Gears of War 2 will be awesome

With all the hype over the new Gear of War 2 video trailer at the moment, it seemed the perfect time at the GDC 2008 to show of the new Unreal Engine III. This technology will be used to Read more

Xbox 360 Gears of War 2: Unreal Engine 3 on-stage demonstration

Gears of War 2 is shaping up to be a superb game, and one of the major factors that will help the game become so great is the use of the new Unreal Engine 3. For those of you, who have not seen how good this piece of software is, then check out this on-stage demonstration video that was taken at GDC 2008.

There are a number of improvements on the Unreal Engine 3; one is the improved water physics. It seems as if the character is now able to affect his surrounds. If you shoot at wall it will blow apart as if you were really shooting at them.

Check out the video below

Japan celebrates with a Mazda RX-8 Rotary Engine 40th Anniversary edition

You would not believe it but it has been 40 years since the rotary engine came into use, and to help celebrate Mazda are producing 200 Mazda RX-8 Rotary Engine 40th Anniversary edition cars, which will Read more

New safety feature on Nissan 2008 Skyline Coupe: Pop up Engine Hood

When car makers design their cars, they always seem to think about the safety of the people in the car. But the people over at Nissan have also been thinking about the Read more