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New Search Engine...
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:46 am
by pdwyer
http://www.cuil.com/
Apparently it's build by some Google engineers that had some more ideas. (and were responsible for some major improvements on Google) Has a very different feel for the display. Not sure I like it or not but it's quite different.
Good to see people haven't just given up to let Google win and not innovate anymore

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:55 am
by byo
Looks good. I like how you can view an image and a some detailed text with it. Thanks for the link. Bookmarked.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:09 am
by idle
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doh!
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:32 am
by Rook Zimbabwe
It was mentioned on Attack of the Show on G4... Al the fanB0is stopped fantasizing aboutOlivia Munn and Layla Kayliegh long enough to G33k it out!!!
It will be back to normal in a day or 4

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:02 am
by pdwyer
Not so good for looking up errors for info (troubleshooting support), where a returned list is easier to get info out of. But looking for other articles was quite good
Re: New Search Engine...
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:04 am
by PB
> Apparently it's build by some Google engineers that had some more ideas
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see any advantage over Google?
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:29 am
by Fluid Byte
cuil.com wrote:Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
You peeps shud be not too harsh judging this since you all got used to Google in all those years. I think this site is a very good approach.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:55 am
by Little John
Fluid Byte wrote:cuil.com wrote:Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
This is somewhat similar to saying: "The phone book of Berlin contains three times as many characters as the bible."

So what?
There are more things that make a good search engine. After a
quick test my impression was, that Google found more relevant hits. Well, this will depend on the actual term(s) for which someone is looking. Anyway, since this brings some more competition in the field of search engines, it will be advantageous for the users.
Regards, Little John
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:09 am
by Derek
I think it's a far better approach to searching than Google, you just need to get used to it for a while. Nice find.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:00 am
by PB
> you all got used to Google in all those years
It's not a case of "being used to Google" at all. Google does what it does, well.
> You peeps shud be not too harsh judging this
Why not? Any new product has to prove itself. Something new isn't entitled
to command respect just like that <clicks fingers>. Only time will tell if it's any
better than Google. For me, it's currently nowhere near it. And what's with all
the non-related images next to the search results? Stupid.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:43 pm
by Derek
PB wrote:And what's with all the non-related images next to the search results? Stupid.
I did a search for 'purebasic' and next to the '2ddrawing' result is a picture of a bedroom which seems to be wrong, but it's early days yet.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:00 pm
by ricardo
I guess that for some amount of users, this will be their new search engine.
Type the name of a city, per example, and you will see some nice info organized.
Personally maybe i will not use this instead of Google, but im sure that many average users will because its more eye-candy and offer some info more organized and because novelty and newspapers.
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:02 pm
by Little John
PB wrote:And what's with all
the non-related images next to the search results? Stupid.
Yep. Stupid and misleading.
Regards, Little John
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:29 pm
by pdwyer
Hmmm, yes, the pics are bullshit!
I did a search on my grandfather as there is a wikipedia page on him and google will hit it as the first found link if you use his full name (I suspect that they favour wikipedia hits) and cuil found it and put a picture of a black guy in a sports stadium in next to the link text (which talks about a dead professor)
Kind of hard to get this pic
http://www.cuilimg.com/imgsrv?i=020b01:1437065546832764
from this link :roll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Patrick_Dwyer
Also, Google has rebutted and said that "three times their index count would have been at the last time they published that count which was apparently 2005.
Still, worth keeping an eye on, I think it will improve
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 4:51 pm
by Psychophanta
ATM
www.busca7.com is the best one i have know.