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Sep 9 2008   2:39AM GMT

Google Seach Found Me on Naymz.com



Posted by: Suzanne Wheeler
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I love a good mystery, but not the kind I have to pay for to solve. Naymz.com is a social networking site for professionals who want to put their good name to use. It offers a free 30-day trial to the URL of your domain name like your.name.name. I didn’t even know .name was a new domain! So the catch is my profile was viewed twice today. The link was this Google search for which I can purchase the visitor date,IP address, city, state & country, and name (if available).

Okay, I admit it, I’m curious. I sign up for a free month of extras. So who looked me up? No names, but two IPs from the town I work in. Oh, well. So the results weren’t that exciting. Maybe I’ll get a new blog subscriber out of it. Or more likely, life will continue as before. Now I just have to find that unsubscribe button so I don’t have to pay!

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Jul 31 2008   7:36PM GMT

Cuil Search Soars and Tanks



Posted by: Suzanne Wheeler
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Overheard in the tech blogsphere has a great summation of the CUIL experience. I tried my favorite technique - searching my name and online handles on Cuil. The results were less than stellar. Sure, I got plenty of sites that don’t appear on Google’s list but the quality was poor. All I learned is that there’s a 24 year old woman in the UK who uses the same handle I do. It never even found the MySpace page that shares my handle, either.

I couldn’t help myself today when jumping on the Cuil bashing bandwagon. They really have a lot further to go to compete with Google. I do wish them all the luck in the world, and maybe some prayer wouldn’t hurt, either.

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