Cuil search engine has a low self esteem
Author: jamaapoa
•Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Some former Google engineers have teamed up and launched a new search engine www.cuil.com (pronounced "cool"). They are working hard to beat Google at its own game: googling claiming they have a better search algorithm that ranks pages based on content rather than popularity.

Search engines rank their pages based more on popularity than content relevance. The more links that link to your site, the better it is placed by Google (oops...search engines) on their search results. As long as the links to your site are not from crazy or bogus websites.

Interestingly for www.cuil.com, a 'cuil' search yields no results for its own page or the hullabaloo on the Internet about Cuil's David stance against Goliath Google. Google does Cuil justice and ranks www.cuil.com top on a "cuil" search. Cuil instead gives results about properties in Ireland, restaurants and tourist attraction sites on the first search results page of a "cuil" search on www.cuil.com.

While at it, here is a collection of search engines out there:
  1. www.google.com
  2. www.yahoo.com
  3. www.live.com
  4. www.ask.com
  5. www.mahalo.com
  6. www.hakia.com
  7. www.wikia.com
  8. www.wikipedia.com
  9. www.powerset.com
  10. www.cuil.com
  11. www.del.icio.us
  12. www.earthfrisk.com
  13. www.youtube.com
  14. www.flickr.com
  15. www.lycos.com
  16. www.altavista.com
  17. www.dmoz.org
  18. www.about.com
  19. www.blekko.com
  20. www.ixquick.com
  21. www.archive.org
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President Kibaki confirms Stella Kilonzo as CEO of Capital Markets Authority
Author: jamaapoa
•Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Stella Kilonzo was confirmed yesterday (15th July 2008) as the CEO of Capital Markets Authority (CMA) by president Kibaki. She has been acting in that position since December 2007. She has survived the sharks that rein the Kenya stock market and in her brief stint, she has shown that CMA can indeed bite. I hope she has not and will not be compromised and will improve investor confidence in the market.

Hopefully with full mandate, she will move in with speed to correct the glaring anomalies in broker operations that leave Kenyan investors conned of their hard earned savings and loans. Being a young turk and teaming up with Chris Mwebesa the CEO of Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) who was also recently confirmed, they should infuse new energy, ideas and styles of management in the capital markets that will see the NSE rise to new heights internationally.


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Faith, Hope and Love
Author: jamaapoa
•Thursday, July 10, 2008
What makes you wake up every morning?

Do you have a longing for tomorrow?

In short what drives you?

Yesterday I felt quite miserable tending to hopelessness. I am not used to such feelings and whenever I feel down, “I feel like dying” - like I know how feelings of dying are like. For a flash, I had no purpose, no longing for tomorrow and rudderless.

My escapism in such instances is usually to sleep. Napping rejuvenates my spirits. At times it takes a few days. There is always hope inside me that it is just a matter of time and it will be over. It is always over after some time. That is hope.

Later I really pondered about our purpose around here. Is there a purpose that transcends life? In most cases we are pre-occupied in mortal life with all its siblings namely; eating, drinking, education, lifestyle comforts, procreation etc. Then? That is all there is in life. If that be true, then is life worth it? That is faith.

Is love essential for life?



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