Cuil Interest Shows Hunger For Search Competitor

Cuil, the search engine launched at the beginning of the week with brassy fanfare and progressive decrescendo on Monday, still looks about the same on Friday. It's faster, at least, without 50 million—seriously—queries hitting its categorized servers. The images are still a bit out of whack, the categories still odd, the results certainly alternative.

Agents Can Search And Seize Laptops At U.S. Border

U.S. federal officials have disclosed that agents at the U.S. border may seize a traveler's laptop or other electronic devices with no limits on how long they can hold them and without any suspicion of wrongdoing.The Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed the new policies that allow agents to search a laptop's contents and share the information with other agencies and private organizations for language…

Banned To Unbanned At StumbleUpon

ProBlogger enjoyed significant traffic from bookmarking site StumbleUpon, until the site declared ProBlogger unwelcome at its domain; thanks to social media, that changed fast.

SEOMoz Dishes On ‘Give It Up’ Secrets

Rand Fishkin blogged about the little bits of secrets discussed at a session of the recent SMX Advanced conference; the session centers on some of the tips and tricks that aren't widely known in search marketing.