Posts Tagged ‘search engine’

Cuil is Launched! Claims to be 10 times better than Google! Is it Really?

Cuil a massive search engine which has been launched today.It claims to have indexed over 120 billion pages.Cuil was founded by highly respected search experts. Husband and wife team Tom Costello (CEO) and Anna Patterson were joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are also ex-Google employees, and the company has been the subject of intense speculation over the last couple of years.

Cuil Search Engine

                                                 Cuil claims to have better search results then Google. It also claims to be 10 times faster and cut down the indexing cost by 10 times that of Google.But is it really ? When we searched for the our company name Indiandevs which has been recently built then we got no Result.When we searched for labnol , a famous blog by Amit Agarawal which has a page rank of 6 by google we got no result.Although when we did the same with Digital Inspiration we got the first result as labnol.org .

 

                                                   Although Cuil has some better things too.When we searched for computers,we were presented with related terms and also links to some Famous computer companies.You can also have results based on categories.

 

Cuil Search Engine

 

                                                    Cuil also says that they will put user privacy at the top of their business objectives. User IP addresses are not recorded to their servers, they say, and cookies are not used to associate a computer with queries. The data is simply dumped as it is created.

[via TechCrunch]

Google now crawls Flash

GoogleWeb Developers have always faced a problem whether to create site with flash content or not .If yes then they had to create alternate content for Search Engines like Google to index.But now google has solved their problem as it will now be able to index flash content.

 

                                              Google supports flash content of the SWF format and it may include buttons,small part or full website.The textual content and URL’s in the flash files can be used by the Search Engines  to match search terms.

 

                                               Google does not supports FLV content neither indexes images embeeded in Flash.It also has 3 major limitations :-

  • Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
  • It does not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.
  • Flash content written in bidirectional languages has difficulty in being indexed. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.

 

Read more Q&Ans at Official Google Webmasters.

 

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