Back in July, CUIL debuted and absolutely blew up.  It was totally worthless as a search engine.  There were several other articles written across the Internets about the same thing. I haven’t really thought much about it until this morning. So I decided to do a search on CUIL for something that has been all over the news and blogs locally her [...]

A watchdog group watching the Google Empire to hold them accountable for “Being Evil” in spite of their 10 Guiding Principles. An aside: What exactly is a google: Actually, its a googol, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 [...]

Finally, someone with some methodology to testing search engines has placed all the big boys in one place and graded them. Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz ran a set of tests to rate the big search engines on relevancy, coverage, freshness, diversity and user experience.  He built a chart mapping out his results. Testing Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live.c [...]