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New search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”) allegedly searches through 121 billion pages and ranks by “content and relevance” — I’m not that impressed as I didn’t get any results for UX Magazine. Really?

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Jez
28 July 2008, 08:44 ( Permalink )

compared to Google’s 162,000 results, that is quite embarrassing.

Do we really need another search engine anyway?

Jez
28 July 2008, 09:06 ( Permalink )

could you fix my typo? :)

Harry Roberts
28 July 2008, 09:08 ( Permalink )

“We’ll be back soon…

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.

Thanks for your patience.”

— They’ll stamp Google into the ground with that one.

Alex Schleifer
28 July 2008, 10:16 ( Permalink )

Jez: No problem. ;)

Harry: Considering there’s $33 Million investment and that this is their grand opening it is embarrassing. Not the “holy crap!” moment you got when you first Googled something. But I’m willing to believe that their technology is at the very least interesting and while we might not really need another Google (re. Jez) it’s always good to see someone aggressively challenging the status quo. Not sure they can manage on their own but if the tech is there then I’m sure Microsoft or Yahoo (or even YahooSoft!) will be interested.

blundstone
28 July 2008, 10:35 ( Permalink )

that’s weird, i get 90,816 results for ux magazine.

JG
28 July 2008, 18:05 ( Permalink )

When I tested it this morning, I got results. When I try it now, it could not find any results.

Katherine
28 July 2008, 18:46 ( Permalink )

I tried last night twice, and got zero results for either the name of my website or the phrase “hydrogen synthesis.” The latter had about a 10 second wait-time before any rendering happened.

I’m glad they’re stirring some competition into the search arena, but they could have made a stronger first showing.

Eddie
28 July 2008, 18:50 ( Permalink )

I’ve been seeing strange results (re: unreliable). A search for “hundred years war” initially gave me back spam like search results (ie: garbage) but later gave me back a nice list of articles and a gray box of other searches (branches) to go off of.

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New search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”) allegedly searches through 121 billion pages and ranks by “content and relevance” — I’m not that impressed as I didn’t get any results for UX Magazine. Really?