Dry Loop DSL - Naked DSL

Since most people are now turning to Cell phones to replace their home lines a lot of phone companies who sell DSL are suffering. I know most of my friends now use Cable for their Internet connections as they don’t want to have to pay for a phone line they never use. The telephone companies are responding with Naked DSL or Dry Loop DSL as it is also known. Dry Loop DSL is basically DSL without the phone line. You get a phone line into your house and you can access DSL through the line, but you can’t make any phone calls. This is great if all you want is Internet connectivity and you don’t really need to utilize the telephone portion of a DSL line. We killed off our DSL a few years back, but I’ve been considering it again with the absence of the phone bill part of a DSL line and Naked DSL may be the answer.

I’m not unsatisfied with my cable connection at all, but I like to keep switching up so I can save money and get the switch to deals. Right now AT&T is offering some great deals on Dry Loop DSL. Perhaps I will take  a look at changing again. I just hate to do without my Internet Connectivity for any length of time. Perhaps I can get a Naked DSL connection during the same day as I turn off the cable modem connection. I’m not totally sold on Dry loop DSL but it may be something work looking into.

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Ziggs.com Who is Googling me

Ziggs.com has launched an interesting service which allows you to find out when your name is being searched on Google. This could be good for companies who want to fine tune their marketing campaigns. It won’t tell you exactly who searched your name but it does give you some interesting demographics about the person including their location, time of search, IP address, search terms etc.. This could be useful for a company to gage interest, but I don’t see how it would be of much help for an individual to find out who is googling you. Ziggs is a very interesting concept and could be useful if you could figure out how to leverage the information. I guess you could look at who is Googling your competitors and then create marketing campaigns to target those people. Of course since the Zigg service just launched its hard to say just how accurate these who is googling me results actually are.

Cuil - Cool New Search Engine Not that Cool

A new search engine launched today named Cuil and pronounced Cool and many think its designed to be a Google and MSN killer. Personally I don’t see it. Cuil reportedly has millions more pages indexed than either Microsoft or Google, but its not the number of pages indexed that’s important its the validity of the results.

I took Cuil for a short test drive this morning and searched for some popular search terms to see what I would get back. I will admit I have not done an extensive search study, but only typed in several searches that I’ve performed in the past and several of these searches where for trademarked names of various companies. Well Cuil either gave me no results and when they did provide results  the results did not include the home page of the company whose trademark I was searching. This one search will not allow Cuil to take  over Google or MSN as it will not be able to provide the information people are searching for and relevant information is much more important than the actual number of results any one search engine may provide. Of course this would make a good atmosphere for the spammers to jump up in the search engine for trademarked  terms.

Overall I would say the Cuil New search engine does not seem all that cool to me.

 

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