20080728
Nothing Cool about Cuil - Click!
The Press has been bragging about Cuil (pronounced "cool"), a search engine created by a few people from Google hoping to get rich like their former employer.Cuil claims to have a database three times larger than Google, but the search still has alot of bugs.
Where Google has an Image search, Cuil does not. Cuil links images with artcles, images that do not match with the article. For example, a search for Bushido Hacks does not fetch BushidoHacks.com has the first result like it does with Google. Cuil claims that it is because it looks for pages that are relevant not popular. BushidoHacks.com seems pretty relevant. Searching on Ask.com would confirm Google is right.
Cuil claims to not track users like Google does, as if to state that Google is an Orwellian juggernaut (bitch!). While Google has grown from a sucky search engine to an outstanding search engine with services better than Yahoo! (I'm still pissed at them because they deleting my Geocities pages), Cuil seem to pull up all the instance of my name in the worst places. For instance, they pulled up the old avatar that I used on Weebl's website before they banned me. (Weebl's website has a very, very low tolerance for shenanigans. I think it was because I sent them the Goaste image on April Fools Day. At least I didn't Rickroll them.) Then their are the instance where my name shows up in user profiles. Bad Cuil!
Being a fan of various comics, manga, and video games, Cuil failed to find anything relevant. For example, one of my favorite Metal Gear Solid parodies is Metal Gear Yotsuba by Skaijo. Google found Skaijo's DeviantArt page. Ask found her NewGrounds page. Cuil found the internet community 4chan (NSFW!). My dog could search better than Cuil, and she can't even stay in the back yard without a leash.
But Cuil does have a couple of good features. A newspaper-like layout. Related Search Widgets. But even with all that, Cuil will more than likely go bust if the tech industry runs into a bubble situation.
If Cuil wants to work, it needs to realize that searches were not based on popularity in the first place and that its goal of relavance is way off the mark.
Labels: google, imho, internet, tubes, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 7/28/2008 11:15:00 PM (0) comments top
20070522
Major Blog Changes Coming
I don't know what is harder. Having to find the courage to go to a long overdue dental appointment, or trying to update this blog's layout.I'm making some changes to some old blog entries so that I can create a uniform style, add keywords, check spelling and grammar, so that I can try to attempt making changes to this blog.
Blogger's syntax makes me a little nervous. There was a reason why I chose to format my pages in PHP, but I ended out using JavaScript to create the advanced features which look like crap.
So, this week, BushidoHacks.com is under renovation. It won't be closed like the forums, but it will be making changes to attract more users to this site.
I really want to get ASUKA set up. I need to write up a Software Requirement Specification Document (SRSD).
Meanwhile, I need to see if I should still use Blogger or if I should switch to Wordpress. I'm glad that Blogger is finally using keyword labels like Wordpress, but if Wordpress is more efficient, then I may have to do something I really don't want to do: Migrate from Blogger to Wordpress.
But Blogger still has some great features. Moblogging (mobile blogging) using a cell phone. Automatically saving drafts. The power of Google's community of computer scientists and computer programmers. The network of users who write back.
I won't migrate from Blogger. But if the keywords post blog entries in several pages instead of posting once and using a database to call similar articles, then Wordpress may be the way to go.
But I should change this blog's layout before considering changing this blog's software.
Labels: asuka, blog, google, software, SRSD, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/22/2007 11:25:00 AM (0) comments top
20070502
Digg gets HD-DVD pwn3d!
I used to look up to Kevin Rose back when he was on TechTV, but this news about Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson taking money from the HD-DVD promotions group and the MPAA is like finding out Barry Bonds took steroids.In response to this stab in the back, here's the number that the MPAA tried to censor from public knowlege to crack their crappy overpirced coasters.
09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0
Shame on you, Kevin. To hell with you , MPAA.
What numbers will the MPAA try to censor next? pi? e? The speed of light in a vaccum?
UPDATE
Kevin has quickly appologized for today's actions.
Labels: foia, fud, hack, movies, news, physics, rage, shovelware, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/02/2007 12:04:00 AM (0) comments top
20070129
UGH! I've done something I had hoped I wouldn't do! - Click!
I hate myspace. It has more cookies than a Mrs. Fields. But since I'm desperate to get some attention to this website and to myself, I had to swallow a tablespoon of codliver oil loaded with ADD causing advertisments and people whose HTML skill are so bad, Tim Berners-Lee needs to kick their ass.On the other hand, I could start up a group to bring down G4.
I'm tired right now. I'll deal with all that crap later.
Labels: horror, myspace, news, rage, thevirus, websites, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/29/2007 01:05:00 AM (0) comments top
20070117
It's Not A Book, It's Fark! - Click!
As bitter as I still am for being banned from Fark.com because of foolish behavior long before there was a BushidoHacks.com which which is still used as evidence against me for rejoining the site, which uses the wicked IP ban system that should only be used on spammers, I look forward to reading Drew Curtis' It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Trys to Pass Off Crap as News when it hits booksotes June 14, 2007.It's like everyone that is well known on the Internet is coming out with a book lately. Last year it was Maddox with the Alphabet of Manliness. Also last year Ninja Burger Honorable Employee Handbook by Michael L. Fiegel, and one of the most controversial books of last year The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson.
What's next for 2007? Newgrounds? Tomorrow's Nobody? Neil Cicierega already has a couple CDs he's produced with his band Lemon Demon. To top that of he's like a few years younger than I am. I feel like I've been left out of this positive wave of Internet notoriety (sp).
I bet if Ebaum's World had a book it would probably be called: If I Did Steal Content From Other People's Websites, Here's How It Would Happen.
I need to find my place on the Internet. Some place that is productive, makes some form of money and does not required the need to bare all, it you know what I mean.
I need to find something worthy of writing a book about, even though I am not an English major. Why should only those folks get to have all the fun?
It will be one of my short term goals this year to make a video on YouTube. This way, some one can say "Gosh damn that boy is ugly." :-)
But first I need to take care of a few things that prevent me from enjoying the Internet including my own work.
Labels: books, news, thevirus, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/17/2007 04:57:00 PM (0) comments top
20061129
Weather Bonk a Donka Donk - Click!
Weather Bonk is the Google of weather information, not just because it uses Google Maps in combination with radar data from the National Weather Service, but because it allows you to decide where you want to get your weather from, either from the NWS, Weather.com, and a few other commerical weather sites.This mashup is a great example of when things with identical goals work together. With this major winter stom that is coming that is going to turn the sunny 70 degree day we had today into a frigid 27 degree night with rain, storms, lightening, thunder, hail, freezing rain, sleet, ice, snow, and just about everything execpt Biblical plagues.
Check it out.
Labels: google, maps, weather, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 11/29/2006 07:00:00 PM (0) comments top
