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OK, I can believe that it’s possible to create a better search algorithm than Google and make a serious dent in their market-share over a long period of time. But you’d better have a better product first. A MUCH better product.

Just tried out new search engine cuil and the results feel like 1995 all over again…I keep finding myself saying, “why the heck is that showing up?”.

Not impressed and I expect it to die quickly.

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Ran across this on Saturday….

It’s a banner for youth football. Now, I love football (American football mind you). But I imagine that most mothers are like my wife…they’re afraid of their sons getting hurt. Not the best advertisement then to say that they are “Now Practing” [sic]. Wow….maybe they don’t use helmets and that would explain the horrible spelling?

I commented on the ProBlogger social media love-in and holy crap…I’ve had more connections made in the last 36 hours than I have the entire time I’ve been using Twitter. Awesome!

I actually went through the entire list of all 538 twitterers and looked at each profile. I didn’t add everybody (that would be madness). So who did I add?

• Blogged about similar or related niches
• Had a “healthy” ratio of following : followers
• Had a frequent but not obnoxious update pattern
• And I hate to admit it, but I added a couple based mostly on the attractiveness of the girl in the picture on the profile (hey, like the country song says, at the end of the day, I’m just a guy)

Who I didn’t add?

• No profile picture or graphic at all
• Protected updates
• Less than 20 updates total
• More than 2 weeks since last update
• No Bio filled in
• Very low or unhealthy ratio of followers to following
• Obnoxiously frequent/infrequent update pattern

So, if you want to be successful on Twitter then you need a hot chick for your profile picture, a very descriptive bio, you need to look credible (i.e. not desperate because you follow 10x as many as follow you) or aloof (because 10x as many follow you as you follow). Oh, and you need to use the tool occasionally.

If you want to follow me on Twitter, you can find a link to my profile on the left-hand side of the page.

UPDATE: I’m an idiot. If you look to the left-hand side of the page you see a big fat nothing! I was thinking of my business’s blog, Stage3 Consulting where I do have my twitter profile on the left-hand side of the page. Duh! Here’s my twitter profile if your want to connect as well as FriendFeed which will give you everything else you may want in the way of social media.