Category Archives: Search Engines

Cuil – Gateway to Spam

So there’s a new player in the search engine space, founded by some really smart people from Google.  Named Cuil, pronounced “cool”, it differs from Goole’s algorithm: As Cuil’s founders describe it, the search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Local mapspamming

Wow, the number of ways to manipulate search results just keep growing.  A technique coined “mapspamming” has begun to pollute Yahoo! Local’s results, as has “comment bombing”. In a known case, a company pretending to be a local florist engages … Continue reading

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More Reasons We Don’t Want Open Search to Beat Google

Following on the heels of my question Do We Really Want Open Search to Beat Google, one has to wonder how much of a problem vandalism and general inaccuracies really are in Wikipedia. One example I mentioned was politicians and … Continue reading

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