Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Is Cuil killing the Internet?


While the world gets excited over Google’s new open-source browser, Chrome, a new story is emerging about one of the Web’s next-generation utilities: Cuil, the search engine heralded as a “Google killer,” might just be taking out the entire Internet, one site at a time.

As TechCrunch’s Don Reisinger reports, Cuil’s Twiceler indexing bot is so bandwith-hungry that it’s shutting down sites all over the Web:

See the full article here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=338


Saturday, March 15, 2008

World Clock: great for statistics & trivia


The World Clock has an almost unlimited number of uses in any discipline and for anyone. You have to check out the website, and if you are mathematically minded who said you could not integrate technology into your life, here’s the easiest and best place to start, and the tool is user-friendly. You’ll want to bookmark the website, because googling world clock will likely not get you to this one easily.
http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf