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New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google
theodp writes "CNET reports that Cuil (pronounced 'Cool'), a startup founded by the husband-and-wife team of Xift creator Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, is launching a new search engine today that claims to index three times as many Web pages as Google." Running a few searches left me underwhelmed with the content of the results (hitting the next-page button on a search with a listed 62,200,000 results — for "seattle" — got me the unexpected error message "We didn't find any results for 'seattle.'"), but pleased with the actual layout of the results when it worked, so I hope the kinks are worked out. Update 7/28 18:30 GMT by SM: corrected Tom Costello's accreditation, he wasn't a professor at Stanford as the linked story suggests, just did some research there as a grad student. Thanks to the Stanford CS department for pointing this out.
i thought the word "cool" was supposed to be spelled "kewl" on the intertubes...
We didn't find any results for "cuil pronunciation"
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Well, that sucks...
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BMO
...until Microsoft puts in an offer?
"former Google search architect Anna Patterson"
Someone's going to sue somebody.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
So is this search engine HOT or NOT?
I just tried to doublecheck the results for "cuil pronunciation" (sic!) with "cuil pronounciation".
What I got was
C - the footgun of programming languages
* Google is really bad for Silicon Valley. Too much of the top talent in the area is now working for Google, doing almost completely useless stuff, and it's not healthy for the industry. I predict that when Google comes crashing down (and it will - anyone who has seen the ridiculous excess of the Google campus cannot help but realize this)
So I guess they didn't accept your job application, uh?
There's a hidden treasure in Python 3.x: __prepare__()
My first thought was "hey that sounds like kuil", which is the dutch word for hole. And judging by the current server state, that's what it is ;)
"Cuil is the biggest search engine on the planet. In our quest to let users search as much of the Internet as possible, Cuil has indexed more than 120 billion pages so far.
If you would like Cuil to crawl your site and have it included in our index, please let us know."
This, with "please let us know" as a hyperlink to crawler@cuil.com.
I feel sorry for poor Jim.
While he's not tending to his horses, he's been parsing 160 Billion emails.
Oh, and now all I get is "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity."
That's because the googlebot is crawling them as we speak.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
I for one would love to have options to Google.
http://www.google.com/preferences
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Some guy: "how do I mount an ISO in linux?"
Answer with Cuil: "Cool it!"
Answer with Google: "Google it!"
It just makes more sense with google.
39,384 results for monkey balls
First result:
Squeezing gently will spin the Monkey Balls briefly in the air, producing a mysterious whistle. Try spinning them from one hand into the other. The higher into the air you spin them, the longer they whistle. (Please be sure no real Monkeys are in the vicinity when trying this trick, they may become disturbed. The Pendulum - Hold one Monkey ball between...
Working for a school district, i tried doing simple search like " schools" and no search results came back. disappointing. So then, searching for our district USD #, it finally returns some results (i would hope so), but like chalkyj said, they need to do some work with their image algorithm. Next to our junior high website link, i get a picture (looks like a college logo t-shirt) with "Boobs" written on it. Not the kind of results you want parents seeing, then calling the school to get the webmaster fired!
Wheeee!!! I'm a bird!!
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=John%20Larsen
tough to find it out this way...
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4479/huhkf9.jpg (Screen snap of Cuil results)
Yeah, there's something wrong with this picture (no pun intended).
-subtraho
Where's the get your cameras off my front lawn option? Also missing, the don't turn my browsing habits into the feds option, and the turn off this ajax-based popup advertisement option.
yes ... but can it compute number of horns on a unicorn multiplied by the answer to life, the universe and everything?
How about the number of horns on a unicorn acre in tea spoons per light year?
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
Yeah, that's probably why that Lie-Nucks thing never took off either. :)
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Oh, and now all I get is "Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity."
Anybody got a link to a mirror?
http://www.thefisks.org/cuil/
Do you Gentoo!?
This string on Google 'Greek Goat Sex' vs Cuil results for the same string
results in a dramatic revelation of the qualitative difference between the two.
Google is leaps and bounds ahead. Not trying to be funny but I'll be moderated
as such I suppose.
Something between the lines jumps out and bites your arm off. Soltan Gris / London
Yeah, if the pictures are for the right site. I put in my tech company's name, and our logo appeared right next to the first entry. Too bad the first entry was a massage parlor 1500 miles from here!
Some "kinks" sounds like a bit of an understatement.
That's precisely why they are the ultimate overlord. They don't need to know who you are.
I looked at the link and that got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Maybe Cuil is just so good at searching the web it has somehow sees into your true nature. This search engine will find things the way they really are. It all seems very mystic now. When I searched my name it came up with a broken picture link. This means I am a blank slate or (more likely) soon to be dead with nothing left to contribute. Except this post, lucky you Slashdot readers.
If someone tries to kill you, you try and kill them right back
Typed 'Free porn' and the first result was "National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum". Thanks. I prefer Google.
I am not a scientologist
You're not a Scientologist yet .
Cuil uses a 4-dimensional search system to find out what you're going to do later.
Too bad they didn't cuil for "what to do when you get posted to the front page of /."
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So I guess they didn't accept your job application, uh?
I don't understand it! I even baked them a cake shaped like the internet!
http://xkcd.com/192/
Well I sent a mail to these guys, showing them this discussion and asking for their comments, so we'll see ;).
You just got troll'd!