Jul 31 2008 6:30PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology,
Search,
SEO,
David Berkowitz
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The search engine’s launch was such a spectacular flameout that it may well go down as a verb. “What happened to that Eddie Murphy movie that was supposed to win him an Oscar?” “It came and went — it got totally Cuiled.”
David Berkowitz, Do We Need Another… |
There was tons of buzz this week — both in the media and in the office — about Cuil. The new search engine promised to index more sites than Google and it had some big industry names behind it. Everyone got all excited, hoping that Google finally had a real competitor. So what went wrong after the big reveal?
The engine works — it’s just not Google. And remember, Google is the supreme ruler. We build out sites for Google. We live and die by changes in the Google algorithm. Competing with Google is serious business. Literally.
Here’s how I knew that Cuil had disappointed and was already being dismissed. It hasn’t even been a week and there are already Cuil jokes.
Think about it. Have you ever in your whole entire life heard a Google joke?
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P.S.
David Berkowitz’s quote made me laugh, but the thing I REALLY wondered when I heard about Cuil was this — what the heck were these brilliant people thinking when they named their engine Cuil?
NEW RULE: Never name your product something you need to tell people how to pronounce. For those of you new to the buzz-swarm, the word cuil is gaelic for knowledge and it’s pronounced “cool.”
Jul 31 2008 10:10AM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology,
unit testing,
Software development,
Programming,
Justin Gehtland
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All development teams (read: more than one programmer) have to deal with integration builds. This is where you pull together all the bits and pieces that the different team members were working on, and check to see if you have a fully functioning product or a Frankenstein’s monster.
Justin Gehtland, Continuous Integration with CruiseControl.NET and Draco.NET |
Justin Gehtland is great teacher. (That’s my highest compliment!)
Jul 29 2008 9:34PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
UMPC,
handheld computer,
mobile computing
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Intel began to deemphasize the term UMPC in the Spring of 2008 and now prefers talking about “MID,” the Mobile Internet Device. Most of Intel-based MIDs currently under development are merely a better realization of the original UMPC concept.
UMPC.com website
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MIDs aren’t tied to a Microsoft OS, either.
Jul 28 2008 1:55PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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