Search engines are hot. No surprise there. Google? Search engines also = advertising revenue and revenue is always hot.

The tech world of buzz is constantly on the watch for “killer” apps. Not killer in that they actually do executions, but ones that will “kill” the previous market leader. That’s like Google did  to Yahoo way back when.

In this David and Goliath atmosphere there’s always a watch for the Google-killer.  We were  promised that last summer in the form of Cuil, another search engine that turned out to be rather banal, just maybe better formatted. [Read more...]