AddMultimedia.com wants to bring its visitors more than just opportunities for good web designs. As Internet users ourselves, we look for substance, not just flash. CNET has always provided substance and now it looks even better, with a site that’s not only easy on the eyes, but easier to navigate. See for yourself.

CNET is one of the best technology sites available, loaded with reviews and helpful buying tips for digital cameras, computers, PC components, software, video games, TVs, mp3 players and more. We seldom buy without seeing what CNET has to say first.

Too many Windows users think they’re stuck using Internet Explorer (IE) to surf the web. Not true. Although you can’t uninstall IE, you can and should have other choices for your Internet browsing. Firefox, a free open source web browser managed by Mozilla, is the browser AddMultimedia.com recommends to its clients and site visitors. Why?

• Firefox is free;
• Firefox is safer — it limits access by malicious script and, unlike IE, it does not depend on ActiveX; even Symantec, those Internet security abd antivirus folks, agree that Firefox has fewer security vulnerabilities than IE, and those security holes it finds get patched a lot faster;
• Firefox is free;
• Firefox supports multiple platforms: running on Windows, Mac OS, Unix, Linux and other Unix-based operating systems;
• Firefox is open source, meaning it’s code is available to developers throughout the world who contribute to keeping it safer, faster and better;
• Firefox is free;
• Firefox was among the first browsers to support tabbed browsing;
• Firefox is customizable with hundreds of add-ons, extensions which provide countless features changing the way Firefox looks and functions, allowing users to have different skins, colorful tabs, easy video downloads, direct links to other search engines, investment resources, social links, etc.;
• Firefox is free;
• Firefox has always been committed to supporting W3C web standards, which means properly designed web site features can be expected to behave they way they’re supposed to (as web designers, we love browsers that follow the rules and which Microsoft would get on board with that);
• By the way, did we mention that Firefox is free?

Firefox 3 improves on everything that has always been good about Firefox and adds something more: a faster interface. Firefox was never a slouch in the speed category, but as time becomes a more limited resource for all of us, we appreciate this improvement.

Why do we think it is so important that Firefox is free? Because to us it means the developers are committed to the product, not the profit. That’s what is generally great about open source software. Firefox has been a leader in building this reputation for open source development. Firefox 3 builds on that reputation. We can only see it getting better.

Today marks the launch of a Cuil.com, a new search engined developed by former Google developer Anna Patterson. Her last search engine was bought by Google in 2004 and used to improve Google’s own search engine.

Patterson’s new search engine, Cuil (pronounced cool), is purportedly three-times more robust than Google and backed by over $30 million in venture capital. Already getting a lot of hype, Cuil promises to challenge web content developers seeking to have their sites found by search engines — which is pretty much anyone who owns a web site.

What we immediately like about Cuil: it’s new and provides healthy competition for what’s becoming a really large fish in a very small pond.

What we don’t immediately like about Cuil: searches return only pages using the exact phrase on a search string unless separated by a comma. In other words, if you type:

mortgage cruise

The results offer no hits because no pages use the exact phrase “mortgage cruise.”

But if you type:

mortgage, cruise

You’ll see search results for pages that include both mortgage and cruise, but not consecutively as a phrase.