Cuil Search Engine tries to wack Google
Cuil Search Engine was recently launched by a group of former Google employees. Found by husband and wife team - Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, Cuil (pronounced “cool”) takes a different approach in sorting through all of the web pages on the web. Rather than using PageRank and its principles, Cuil was designed to primarily analyze the content of the websites.
Google Ad Manager Invitation Email
I just received my Google Ad Manager invitation email and I am very excited about it. For those who are still unfamiliar with what Google Ad Manager is all about, Google Ad Manager is a free service that allows website publishers like ME to manage the Ads/banner inventories on their site. This generally means having advertisements not only Adsense but from other ad networks. It is a direct competitor of OpenX ads management system but the good thing about it is that its a hosted service unlike OpenX which is software that you need to install and maintain on your servers
Google starts indexing Flash media
Google is currently in the process of improving the ability of the Googlebot to index flash media. This is being made possible with the recent announcement of a team up with industry leading search engines to be able improve its search results by including information from flash media. The announcement was made by Adobe in San Jose California.
Through this team up, leading search engines will be able to crawl flash dynamic content and rich internet applications (RIA’s). Working with Adobe, Google has already begun to rall out Adobe Flash Player technology into its search engine results pages and Yahoo will be soon updating with the same concept.
With Google and Yahoo moving into indexing and crawling Flash Media, one just have to think, how will this affect the adoption of Silverlight? My guess is that silverlight will die a slow death as Adobe is effectively stumping on it with the help of leading search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Yet another Opinion about Piracy Part 1
Being an Anti-Piracy advocate for around 4 years now, I think its time for me to actually discuss about what is my perception on piracy, the possible roots of piracy in the Philippines and my own suggestions on how to help reduce piracy in the Philippines.
This article will be the first of three articles on Yet another view on Piracy in Philippines. In this series, I will be:
Aquarium Philippines - A blog for Arowana Lovers
An officemate in my current work place has decided to start a blog about Arowanas and is very eager to share his knowledge about the world. This guy, Ermand Laborte, knows a fantastic amount of stuff about this type fish. All I know about it is that you can sell a fully grown arowana for quite a considerable amount of money. So I guess thats a business opportunity in itself. To know more about Arowanas feel free to visit Aquarium Philippines.