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Cuil might be based on Webfountain technology, a research project from IBM: How to build a WebFountain: An architecture for very large-scale text analytics Some citations:1. “WebFountain is a platform for very large-scaletext analytics applications. The platform allows uniform access to a wide variety ofsources, scalable system-managed deployment of a variety of document-level“augmenters” and corpus-level [...]

I like cuil, a new interesting kid on the block in the search engine arena.

Interface: proper text summaries and the results include images (how do they select images?)

Ranking: new and smart algorithm which analyses content instead of pagerank based on linking, so the bad link builders will not like cuil…

The algoritm: my first thoughts: [...]

The OpenID movement has energized the quest for the “right” approach for identity management.
The emphasis on building upon an user centric architecture is spot on, there are many advantages, it is the only way to go. >> later more…
There are still many issues to solve but I want to cover the main one:
Who should [...]

The launch of Google Lively (Avatars connected to be connected to Google Talk) is the first time that I observe Google introducing a disappointing “me too” service: nothing new less functionality then others. It is remarkable that there is no integration with the Google Sketchup platform for building 3-d objects.

Hi, I have worked (since 1984) about 25 years in the publishing technology domain. I have been a technology strategist for a global publishing company and did support change and innovation.
I studied Chemical Process Technology, and Psychology (Human Information Processing) and spend a lot of time in my life playing chess. I live [...]