Cuil - Google Killer or Just another Cuil (cool) kid in the block?!?
A new Search Engine named Cuil (pronounced Cool) has gone live today with 120 billion (121,617,892,992 web pages to be more specific) indexed web pages, which is triple the amount of Google and Ten times more than Microsoft. So what’s so special about this search engine that got people talking about it? We’ve seen many search engines come and go. Is there anything special about this new search engine that may give search technology an all new direction? Well, not many people trend to think so. If you’ve started thinking it as Google rival then you’re not wrong but you’re not right either. You’re not wrong because Cuil is the brainchild of former Google architect and technical lead Anna Patterson. Anna was the architect of Google’s large search index, TeraGoogle and the technical lead of one of the two Web ranking groups at Google. So you see, the trend of making change is there. But would it be the Google “Killer”? Tech world don’t seem to think so. And as long as Google is concerned, they don’t seem to be worried at all. Continue Reading »
One Liner HTML Crashes IE 6
Here’s an interesting but not so surprising one! A Japanese blogger (Hamachiya2) has found yet another bug in Internet Explorer 6. His one line of HTML and CSS crashes IE 6. Here it is:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>
The code works just fine in other browsers such as Firefox, Safari and Opera but fails in IE 6. If you want to try it out yourself then click here.
