Cuil.com – A rival for Google?

I’m sure you’ve all heard of / have been reading about the new cuil.com search engine…one that is supposed to be the one to watch in the coming years.  I’m not entirely convinced, yet, although I wasn’t convinced when Google came along at first either.

People take a while to adjust to change and so you can be rest assured that Google will remain number one for many years to come.

What makes Cuil.com different from Google you ask?  Apparently Cuil can index a far more sites using much less hardware than Google currently can.  It already boasts of indexing a much higher volume of pages that Google and using only a small portion of hardware.

I am unsure of the searching algortithm used by Cuil, as far as I can tell, not much has been revealed about it.  Initial research has revealed a number of problems and it statistical analysis has shown that the efficiency in finding a suitable page is approximately 20% higher in google.  However, Cuil is a new project, being worked on by ex Google employees and it will take to time to iron out all of the teething problems.

One of changes that will be most apparent to the end user is the results interface….Your search results are now tiled horizontally across the screen as opposed to the traditional row after row fashion.  I think it looks very messy and this will be one of the areas that certainly needs revisiting.

Initial traffic volumes are very high, one wonders whether this has any correlation with potential success or the many million $ spent on an agressive marketing campaign. It will be interesting to watch Cuil.com develop.

What is most annoying from my perspective is the fact that SpittinFlicks.com is not currently indexed…I have suggested to the powers that be within Cuil that they should add this site…I await any impending action!

One thing is for sure – however this little battle pans out, the backlink algorithm that Google introduced years ago (the PageRank model) has flaws that need to be addressed.  As such Microsoft thought that analysing the time somebody spends on any given page is a much greater indicator of web site worthiness than the number of backlinks.  This also has many flaws in that social media web sites will dominate search results due to the fact that it is common to spend half an hour to many hours on one visit to facebook and similar.

If you can come up with an algorithm that effectively analyses web pages for searching you will be one very rich person indeed.

Until next time!

Right then, down to business – Let me tell you about my plan of action…

As you may have gathered by the title of this blog, I am an aspiring entrepreneur (yes, I have learnt that since the creation of this blog I actually can’t spell entrepreneur correctly – hence the URL – but we’ll gloss over that for now) which means I am so far unsuccessful at running my own company.

Well, my first real crack at the whip of getting a startup is my film reviews web site. You may visit this site and wonder how I’m going to make any money from this at all. Well, to be honest, I’m not too bothered about making money right now – I just want some good solid traffic. This sounds simple enough, but believe me it is hard work!

The bottom line is, If I get traffic to any kind of web site, I will be able to convert that traffic into bucks. Of that I’m sure. The problem I have is that competition on the major search engines is high and to get listed in the top couple of pages you either need to know a few webmasters or you need to spend half your life achieving backlinks – a boring and mundane task to say the least.

So I have spent the last couple of weeks linking to other web sites in the hope that they might return the favour, writing articles about all things to do with film and having them published, writing in forums with my URL as the signature and of course this blog (although it has to be said that that isn’t the sole purpose of this blog – quite what is yet, I’m not sure, but I seem to think I’ll be in for a bit of a journey so might aswell get the story down somewhere!)

At the time of writing this I find myself 22nd on the google.com for “film forum” and that is the best I can do at the moment. Watch this space for further improvements.

In my next entry I’ll explain what I’m doing (in great detail) to generate web traffic!

The first post of a new beginning…

I have been assured that it is common place for an aspiring entreprenaur to feel like all his/her efforts are going to waste.

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Paul McCarthy, and I have started this blog because I need to escape from the every day grind that is the office 9-5.  I need the freedom and the flexibility in my life to be able to have the choice, rather than having to do what I am supposed to do 24/7.

I’m sure there are many others out there like me who think the same, but I don’t think half of them have the motivation that I do – I won’t stop until I get there – and you can follow my journey to wherever ‘there’ is through this new blog.

I’ll introduce you to my endeavours in my next post, but for now I just want to say hello and thank you for visiting.