New Search Engine www.Cuil.com Launched by Anna Patterson, an ex-Googler

Anna Patterson
cuil.com

Anna Patterson, an Xoogler(ex-Googler) who was once in charge of Google’s large search index project TeraGoogle, launched a new search engine www.cuil.com in a bid to shake the dominance of her former employer on Monday. As a fervent Google user, I will not use Cuil (pronouced cool) as my major search engine any time soon (after all as a launch version, cuil has too much to improve), but its magazine-like format search results supplemented with relevant pictures in a 2~3-columned layout sure will may let me make it as an alternative of Google when I search for celebrities' pictures.

Screenshot of results yielding 0n Cuil.com when searching Miley Cyrus

Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan Private MySpace Profiles Hacked

Using the steps here, Canadian computer technician Byron Ng exploited Hollywood bad girls Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace profiles. Horribly, in fact Byron Ng can hack anyone's private profile on MySpace which he wants to hack. So do take down those extreme private photos from your profile, it would be too late if someone used Ng's technics to hack yours before the loopholes are amended by MySpace and Yahoo. Source: Valleyvag.com

Liaoning Girl Zhang Ya Cursed Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake Victims

Zhang Ya, Gao Qianhui (高千惠) from Shenyang of Liaoning Province, cursed Sichuan Earthquake victims

The official death toll of China's Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake on May 12 rose to 41, 353 as of Wednesday noon. And the whole country is still in a three-day mourning. With the people across China and many foreigners overseas sparing no their efforts denoting money, tents and other materials to those affected by the Richer 8.0 earthquake, a 5-minute video showing Liaoning girl Zhang Ya Gao Qianhui cursing out Wenchuan Earthquake victims using the extreme profane words was surfaced. After the video was posted on almost all major Chinese forums/BBS, she is now in hot waters, attracting millions of Chinese netizens blaming her irresponsible behavior. She has been arrested by the police. We respect the freedom of speech, but apparently, we also can not tolerate that Zhang Ya Gao Qianhui gloated over the sufferings of earthquake victims and cursed the injured to be dying soon and those unborn in the quake areas to be gangsters. If you are Chinese-savvy, click here to watch Zhang Ya  Gao Qianhui's youtube video.

Update: The Liaoning girl was earlier mis-identified as Zhang Ya by "human flesh search." It turned out that she is Gao Qianhui (高千惠), 21, whose parents were divorced when she was young.

Www.TomCruise.Com Officially Got Online Now

Www.TomCruise.Com, Tom Cruise's official website, has just been launched minutes ago after a recent vigorous Google Adwords campaign.

In celebration of 27 years of making movies since his breakout performance Risky Business, the site Tom Cruise created is as a "thank you, to you, for sharing the jounery with and to invite you to continue to explore what the future will bring", [but not for spreading the knowledge of Scientology].

Tom Cruise Launches TomCruise.com on May 5

Truly speaking, if not read Techcruch's Are You Ready For TomCruise.com? I Sure Am Ready, I would not have known Tom Cruise's official site TomCruise.com  will only be launched on May 5. It's interesting to see what the scientologist will put on the site.

Update: Tomcruise.com has officially been launched. On the site. the Impossible Mission actor says nothing about Scientology, but his 25 years' experience in the film industries.

China Overtakes USA As The Country Having World's Most Internet Users

China's Internet users has hit 221 mln and ranked the world's first, Xinhua reported.

The Internet population in China reached 221 million by the end of February, which outnumbered the figure in the United States to rank the first in the world, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information.

The number was 210 million by the end of last year, only 5 million fewer than the U.S. Internet users then, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).

Despite rapidly increasing Internet population, the proportion of Internet users among the total population was still lower than the global average level, the ministry said, without giving specific figures.

The proportion was 16 percent at the end of 2007, compared with 19.1 percent of the world average, the CNNIC said.

Www.Dalai-liar.Com

Www.dalai-liar.com is a sister-site of www.anti-cnn.com, a website built by Chinese volunteers to expose the biased reports of western medias against China. Dalai-liar.Com which claims Xizang (Tibet) was, is & will be always a part of the China collects facts telling Dalai Lama is a "liar".

Laura Michaels Is a Facebook Sex Addict

Laura Michaels is a 23-year-old woman from Bristol, UK. Boasted herself a Facebook sex addict, Laura Michaels claimed to have slept with 50 men she met through the social networking site. To satisfy her own (sexual) desires, this British lass had once set up a group on Facebook called I Need Sex (now removed) which soon attracted so many men to contact her. Link Picture via Valleywag

Www.Pizza.com Domain Name Auctioned for US$2.6M

Chris Clark, who is from Maryland's North Potomac, registered the domain name Www.Pizza.com in 1994 and since then maintained it by paying an annual fee of $20. In January, Clark decided to sell the domain after hearing about sale of www.vodka.com for 3 million dollars in 2006.  On March 27, he put pizza.com auctioned on Sedo.com. After a weeklong auction closed at 2pm on April 3, someone threw $2.6 million for the domain.

"It's crazy, it's just crazy. That amount of money is significant. It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure." said Clark. Link