Technology Burner Technology Burner

Here are two articles I found for your thought process -

Court notice to Google, Yahoo

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation on a petition seeking a ban on popular online search engines promoting sex selection techniques.

Bueno, parece que además de Live Search, Yahoo y otros por el estilo, alguien más se ha sumado a la lucha por tratar de destronar a Google.  Esta vez se trata de unos ex-empleados de Google, que crearon un nuevo buscador muy interesante, llamado Cuil.

Las búsquedas no se basan en simples rankings de popularidad, como bien nos tiene acostumbrado Google.  Las busquedas se realizan de acuerdo al contenido y su relevancia.

I was trying out Cuil today, the new search engine, and I was going to add it to my list of search engines available in Firefox. However, they didn’t have a pre-made add-on ready so I was going to contact them and advise it.

That’s when it happened… the Cuil couldn’t find it’s own Contact Page. Oh, the terrible irony.

This could be googlecide… or blogocide, we’ll see. I wrote yesterday that I should not have utilized my name as my domain name.

Anyways, you’ll notice starting today that I’ve officially changed the site’s domain from douglaskarr.com to marketingtechblog.com. I’ll be forwarding the URL for the next 6 months until traffic to douglaskarr.com trickles off, then I’ll retire it altogether.

Good friend and co-worker, Marty Bird, pointed out this interesting feature that I’ve not seen before on Google. The ability to do a site search within an actual search result:

I utilize Site Search quite a bit on Google. The syntax is quite easy and it’s usually faster than using a site’s internal search mechanism. If you wanted to search my site, for example, on tips for Indianapolis posts, the syntax is site:douglaskarr.com indianapolis.