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The credit crunch is biting for many of us.From the major subprime losses reported by the banks, to the investment bankers losing their spouses, to the city traders who no longer enjoy their love life, times are bad. Outside the City we also see the issues, from soaring energy prices and inflationary pressures through to…

I met David Birch yesterday, or Dave to his friends, guru of all things to do with mobile and card payments.  Lovely chap. What I did not realise is that he’s also seriously subversive and in danger of being exposed to the Government’s new 42-day detention criteria for being a dodgy chappie. What do I…

Simon Deane-Johns pointed out yesterday that Comscore is also useful for looking at internet sites. True. A few of the most recent Comscore news items about banking include: Top Canadian Web Rankings for March 2008 One Out of Three U.K. Internet Users Banked Online in January 2008 Customer Experience Takes Center Stage in Online Banking…

As previously discussed, a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) is launched this week. Developed by former Google employees, Cuil claims to be better because it indexes more web pages – 120 billion versus 40 billion – and uses contextual searching to return more accurate results.  They also reckon that Cuil is more respectful…

As previously discussed, a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) is launched this week. Developed by former Google employees, Cuil claims to be better because it indexes more web pages – 120 billion versus 40 billion – and uses contextual searching to return more accurate results.  They also reckon that Cuil is more respectful…

As previously discussed, a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) is launched this week. Developed by former Google employees, Cuil claims to be better because it indexes more web pages – 120 billion versus 40 billion – and uses contextual searching to return more accurate results.  They also reckon that Cuil is more respectful…

I found a great new internet gadget last week: the Alexa toolbar. Alexa looks at site traffic for all sorts of companies, and shows how popular they are against a global index. For example, here are the most popular internet sites of all worldwide: 1. Yahoo2. Google3. YouTube4. Windows Live5. Microsoft Network6. MySpace7. Wikipedia8. Facebook9….

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.