That new search engine, cuil, you know the reputed Google killer? It sucks.

From England I typed in "Small business news" and got served a dish of useless American websites - useless to me anyway. Why do I sit in an office in (Old) Hampshire and wish to see small business news from Cleveland, New Jersey, Michigan and Alabama? For the $33 million of venture capital that was reportedly spent on floating this search engine, I expect better.

Cuil is as daft as its name is - which is also French for arse is it not?

Cuil is dead, long live Google.

Labels: rant, search

Rumour has it that Google's new open source browser, Chrome, is out today. Infact it's not just speculation, Google made an official announcement on their blog.

Google's Chrome browser is accompanied by a 32-page Scott McCloud comic book detailing Google's thoughts behind the release of the new browser which lands in a market dominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer and constantly chased but never equalled (in terms of market share anyway) by Firefox, Opera, Safari, Flock and others.

The Google Chrome book is a neat & friendly way to introduce punters to the new browser, making a nice change from the usual stuffy instructions you might expect.

So let's see what happens later today when the Google Chrome beta is released...

Labels: browsers, google, open source