Cuil - Google's new rival

A new search engine 'Cuil'(pronounced cool) is all set to give sleepless nights to google employees. It is being said that Cuil is the biggest search engine and has an index span of around 120 billion web pages.

Cuil is the outcome of hard work by Anna Patterson, ex-google employee, her husband - Tom Costello, and two other ex-google engineers, Russel Power and Louis Monier. Cuil started operating from 28th July 08 and got enormous response from surfers.

Rather than placing the search results in a vertical manner, one below the other like most search engines, Cuil places them in a magazine like manner i.e. horizontally in columns, which looks pretty neat.

Google has been getting competition from various search engines in the past like Teoma, Vivisimo, Snap, Mahalo and Powerset but this is the first time that a search engine developed by ex-google engineers is in the contest. Google responded to Cuil on its blog by saying,"Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space, It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that."

Dialup woes

Why do I have to waaaiiiittt sooo much?

Dialup sucks!

Right now I am trying to download Autopatcher with a dialup connection and it is such a heck.

The download speed barely crosses the 10kbps mark, on the top of it the network connection gets idle from time to time. So, you have to check it all the time if everything is working fine. The real problem is that you cant leave it to download all the stuff on its own. The whole download would have took approximately 18 to 20 hours, phew! So I aborted it in despair. This is the same ol' story I guess for everyone who uses (or has to use!) a dialup connection for surfing. You want to download something, but cant.

I've been thinking of getting a broadband internet connection. But that is not possible, because the connection guys dont provide service in my area. So what I have to do is just wait for my colony to get urban enough to get a broadband connection.

So a long wait ahead I guess!

And yeah, this is my first post!
I'll be posting about computers, internet, games, gadgets, tips and tricks, automobiles, and whatever else I like.

Happy surfing!