Cuil (COOL) way to Search

A new search engine has been launched last Monday. Cuil, pronounced as CooL is very hot topic now a days in bloggers, Internet gurus and of course in Microsoft's offices. :P

It is created by ex-googler Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier after investing $33 million. When I heard about it, millions of questions came to my mind such as, Is it the new rival of google?? people gonna accept it or not?? How they can challenge google?? are their results better than google?? are they using the concept of page rank?? Does size really matter in search?? What they can do for people who is google addicted (like me :) :P)?? If cuil booms, will google stick with "Dont be devil" funda?? How will they make money?? are they going to use google ads?? etc..

So, How cuil is different from google?

1. Cuil is claiming to have the largest index of web, 120 billion pages indexed. This is 3 times more than google's indexed page.
2. Unique way to display the results, it is displaying results in 3 columns.
3. Doesn't use the concept of page rank. So It shows different pages of same website. :(
4. Different search algorithm.
   

Search Result: Ohhh my god.. results were mind blowing. Results have blown my mind. :P

• When I searched for my blog I got "No Result Found". :( assholes :X .. I get it on google's first page.
  

• The biggest shit was, when I searched for Cuil.com itself. I didn't get cuil any where in its results. See the screen shot:

Please don't laugh. They forgot to index their own site. They were not able to increase index size by ONE. They couldn't make it 120 billion + 1 :P

• Another thing, Cuil's server was down just after launching due to overwhelming interest.
• When I searched "What is the age of Sachin Tendulkar ?" (For non Indians : Sachin Tendulkar is the most famous sports person in India:) . Cuil returns nothing - it doesn't seem to be able to cope with question-based queries.
• Didn't give the result for simple mathematical calculations like, addition, subtraction, multiplication etc. It doesn't do calculation. Google also acts as a calculator. Let it be, I didn't get the result for simple " 1+1 = " query.
  

What I liked: I liked it's cool black main page and speed to show useless piece of shit (results).

Ohk.. Is cuil really cool?? Cuil doesn't seem better than ask.com or yahoo search engine or some other small search engines too. Then why the hell they are comparing it with google?? It doesn't make any sense.

This is just a start. I hope they will launch another version of Cuil with lots of modification very soon. Really, they will have to do lots of home works if they want to keep their search engine alive.

PS: Write your cuil (CooL) experiences as comments of this post. Thanx for reading.

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$300 Million from Typing Mistake

Your one typing mistake in browser's address bar can make millionaire to some one. This post is about a person who is making $300 million per year by doing almost nothing.
Kevin Ham, a domainer who was a doctor initially is making $300 million per year. The owner of 300,000 websites is behind the famous ".cm" scheme.

Try typing anything in browser's address bar, eg abc.cm, anything.cm, ranjeet.cm, yourname.cm or just ".cm" and press enter. You will land on a page Agoga.com, a site filled with ads provided by Yahoo. Agoga.com has ads on every page. Ham makes money every time someone clicks an ad also does his venture partner west African country Cameroon.
Let me guess "how does it work?".

1. The Mistake - user enters a domain name directly into his browser's address bar but accidentally types ".cm" instead of ".com". The query goes to Cameroon, which owns the .cm country code.
2. The wildcard- servers at camroon scan the address. if the name isn't registered, a line of software called a "wildcard" reroutes the query to agoga.com.
3. The pay off - agoga's servers query yahoo to find ads related to the typed name, which are then displayed on parked page. Whenever a user clicks on an ad, yahoo pays agoga, who shares undisclosed slice of revenue with Cameroon.
   

Why Cameroon? Its country code ".cm" is very close to "com". Hardly any ".cm" names are registered and it is just one keyboard slip away from ".com". Similarly other countries are Colombia (.co), Oman (.om), Niger (.ne), and Ethiopia (.et).

Such type of pages are like spams. If you click any link of such type of page, owner will make money. Now it all depends on you whether you want to click or not. In my opinion, It is good to get a site filled with ads instead of "Server not found".

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Thanks to these guys..

AAaahhh.. just imagine, one morning you wake up, start your computer, open firefox - 3 (It is fast), type the url of your blog in address bar and you see that your blog is being read in every continent. Is'nt it amazing or socking or thrilling...whatever you say it but this is fantastic. I felt this feeling today morning. See this picture:


It encourages me. I would like to thank to all the visitors and readers of my blog. Thanx guys.. Keep visiting and keep reading my blog.
Thanxxx again :* :*

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Be a hacker with Search Hacker...

I love Google, not because I hate Microsoft. I love it for its web tools. I use its every web tools. Do you want to be a hacker but you dont know abc of hacking? Hacking is a big thing, forget it, lets talk about google search tips and tricks.
How do you search MP3 or video files? If you are just typing the song title in query box then you are wasting your time.

Use this script and make your search for any type of files easy and efficient.
-inurl:(php|htm|html|asp) + “index of” +(mp3|ogg|wma).
Still if you dont use this script then don't worry. Someone will do it for you.
SearchHacker use this kind of Custom Google Search to look for mp3 files. This is also very useful to search video, password of any website. Try it and see the result.

It is also helpful for:

• - General web search
• - Webcam search
• - Job Search
• - Wallpaper search
• - Video Search (Youtube)
• - Search for Answers on Q&A websites
• - Search for the lowest product prices
• - Disposable password/username search

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Now Search PDF file easily by PDF Search Engine

While I was surfing, I came to know about this amazing search engine for eBook and research journal. PDF books now can be searched quickly using PDF Search Engine. Though there might be some results here which are not free. I got all research journals which I needed for my project by just one click.
This is powered by GOOGLE. You can either search from the website or use the provided search extension and add it to your Firefox search bar.

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When I got an e-mail ..EMAIL SCAM

Very often you get a mail, that you have won a lottery and you are going to get $1 million. Send me your account no., so we can transfer the money to your account. Or

You get a mail from an arbitrary and unknown ID, A hot chick is begging for help. If you response to her, she tells you a extremely sad story in the reply to that mail. Its very obvious, you must reply with consolation. In next mail she tells you that her father was a very rich person in her country, he had deposited $3.8 million dollars in an European bank, and she has talked to bank officer, they are agreed to give me whole money, but they have a condition, they can not transfer the money in my account directly , they need a bank account no. which doesnt belong to my country. So she asks your account no. Or, she gives a contact no. and says you to contact at this no..
From last few days I was getting same kind of mail. He/She sent me some pics of a hot girl. I replied "Ohh you are soooo hot. Send me more pics. I will definitely help you".
After many replies / responses, at the end I got a mail written under huge frustration. Mail is shown below.

from Lorita Koneh koneh_lorita@yahoo.com to ranjeet vimal date Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM subject Hello Dear mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com

Hello Dear

Thank you very much

I want you to tell me if you are ready to help me

I have given to you my pictures and now , you have to give to me your pictures and let me know if you are ready to help me or not

Have a nice and lovely day

Lorita

The formula is simple: The fact that you respond to a crooked scheme is usually an indication that you are greedy and probably corrupt.
So The solutions to these kind of problems are simple:

1. Ignore it. Delete the email and forget all about it.
2. Report it. Find the domain name in the email-address. Inform the fraud protection team.
3. Answer it. Have some fun as I have had, but realize that you are dealing with criminals. NEVER give them any personal details, and NEVER send them any money.

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Five things we have learned from Bill Gates

Whether or not you are a fan of Bill Gates, it is impossible to deny the impact he has made on the spread of computer technology across the planet during the past three decades. Since Friday was Gates’ last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, this is the perfect time to look back at five of the most important lessons we’ve learned from the meteoric, tumultuous, and lucrative career of the world’s most famous software engineer.

5. Geeks can be businessmen, too

Before Bill Gates, computer programmers were mostly considered to be a necessary evil for businesses. They were stereotyped as misanthropic weirdos that you stick in dark corners in the back office. However, Gates, became the most successful businessman on earth — if you judge business success by profits — and almost singlehandedly transformed the term “geek” from an insult to a badge of honor in the process.

4. You don’t have to be first to win

Gates and Microsoft rarely got to the party first with new technologies and innovations, but they were simply better at bringing technology products to the masses than anyone else in the industry. Internet Explorer is the most famous example, but Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel are also great examples. Microsoft was merely better at executing. It didn’t hurt that Microsoft often had the most resources, but Gates and Co. showed over and over again that they knew how to best take advantage of those resources.

3. Computing will spread everywhere

In the 1980s when the computer was still mostly a novelty, Gates expressed his vision that there would one day be “a computer on every desk and in every home.” That vision has nearly become a reality in the U.S. and it’s in the process of coming to fruition across the globe. Plus, Gates’ vision of the computing experience has continued to inspire the industry in general as well as Microsoft’s product plans — from the smartphone to the Tablet PC to speech recognition to the touch-based interface.

2. Arrogance breeds failure

In the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, the Bill Gates character says to Steve Ballmer, “Success is a menace. It fools smart people into thinking that they can’t lose.” He was referring to IBM and the fact that it let Microsoft sneak in and steal the thunder in the launch of the PC. A decade later, Microsoft’s own success and arrogance led to its anti-trust defeat to the U.S. government. But Microsoft also remained humble and paranoid enough to always be on the lookout for the next small company that might do to it what it had done to IBM. Some of the most popular targets in its cross hairs: Apple, Netscape, Linux, and Google.

1. Software matters

The one message that Bill Gates spent his career reiterating was that software matters. Gates and Microsoft always believed in the magic of software to create amazing digital experiences. When “Micros-Soft” (as it was originally known) first launched in the 1970s, the computer business was all about the hardware. It was Gates and his vision of what people could do with computers that moved software to the center of the computing experience.

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