Rest easy, Google … The much-hyped new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”), purports to index more Web pages than any of its rivals. But based on its Monday debut, the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
UFO’S: THE UNACCEPTABLE REALITY
“Unidentified flying objects are as real as airplanes which fly over our heads…” Paul Hellyer, Canadian Minister of Defence 1963 – 1967
Many people treat UFOs or extraterrestrial (ET) life as ‘ridiculous nonsense.’ It is a case of an endless expanse of wide open skies and––narrow closed minds. It is common knowledge that ‘space’ is full [...]
Aussie science to make net 100 times faster
COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology. University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and not cost users an extra cent. Described as “a small scratch on a [...]
NASA man Edgar Mitchell sparks UFO, alien frenzy
A RECENT spate of UFO sightings around the world has believers in a frenzy, but even the inside scoop from a former astronaut is not enough to sway the sceptics.
Yesterday, aliens popped up in the news again as NASA sought to distance itself from former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell who claimed extra-terrestrials have been coming [...]
Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank
Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.
A big part of Google’s rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page’s importance by how many other Web pages link to it and by the [...]



















