Ex-Google Engineers Unveil New Search Engine

"The former Google engineers roll out Cuil, which they say will index a larger portion of the Web than Google, and more quickly and at less cost.MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - A start-up led by former star...

Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages

"Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each Wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilizes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your...

Yahoo Releases Yslow, A Firefox Extension For Debugging And Improving Website...

I'm sure you've noticed our pages are loading a LOT faster now then they did a few weeks ago... this is a result of much backend work; now we are focusing more on the front end and we are playing with YSlow to...

Twitter your newspaper?

The buzz on Twitter just keeps growing louder and more forceful--this week the Financial Times even took a run at analyzing the phenomenon. Now, newspaper publishers are reportedly looking at the Twitter model as...

Google Disarms 'Googlebombs'

"Google has made what it calls a "pretty small" change to the way it indexes Web sites in order to prevent a prank often called "Googlebombing" in which many people link the same word to specific Web site in order to raise it to the top of search results. Notable Googlebombs,...

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