Search site aims to rival Google ( Called Cuil, from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel, )

BBC ^ | Monday, 28 July 2008 12:33 UK 11:33 GMT, | BBC Staff

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[mnehring]

I've been trying out Cuil and so far, I am not impressed. While the layout is nice, the results are far from the quality you get on other sites. Sometimes, the same result displays on several pages. The images shown with the results are also most of the time, unrelated to the result it is sitting next to.

Maybe as their bots crawl more sites it will improve, but right now, it is somewhat useless.

[daku]

I’ve used it a dozen times today and has two things going for it ...

it works fine
it isn’t google

[libbylu]

I agree,have used it 5-6 times and it did want i needed.

[dragonblustar]

I tried to look up Free Republic. Interesting what it brought up.

[astyanax]

Thanks for the info, I’ll give it a try.
Gave up google a long time ago (after the holidays and blog links flaps,) mainly use dogpile now.
Always looking for another source of info!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I would say they have a long way to go. I searched “West Virginia Running” and “West Virginia Biking” and both returned no results. Worthless.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have a checkbox to add to Firefox search engines

AND

They have a safe Search......

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have a lot of work ahead of them...

[jeffc]

just checked them. Servers are overloaded - they’re down!

[MDspinboyredux]

Not a good start!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Druge and Breit bart:

Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers—Russell Power and Louis Monier—searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.

Patterson believes that's at least three times the size of Google's index, although there is no way to know for certain. Google stopped publicly quantifying its index's breadth nearly three years ago when the catalog spanned 8.2 billion Web pages.

Cuil won't divulge the formula it has developed to cover a wider swath of the Web with far fewer computers than Google. And Google isn't ceding the point: Spokeswoman Katie Watson said her company still believes its index is the largest.

After getting inquiries about Cuil, Google asserted on its blog Friday that it regularly scans through 1 trillion unique Web links. But Google said it doesn't index them all because they either point to similar content or would diminish the quality of its search results in some other way. The posting didn't quantify the size of Google's index.

[philled]

I hear you. It is now my default serach engine. We’ll see how it goes...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Seem to be responding....

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Regional radio host Schnitt tried this using his name. The first result he found was an article about him accompanied by a picture of Glen Beck. No idea why the two are connected.

[dajeeps]

Awesome that it isn’t Google. From quashing free speech in China (and possibly other places) to refusing to cooperate with the government regarding registered child rapists, Google has shown they are not a company worthy of my patronage.

I’ve been using Windows Live instead. It’s good enough and doesn’t result in the outwardly support of San Fransisco values.

It’s nice we have an option that has the potential to rival Google service that doesn’t have the liberal activist connotations with it. Of course, if they start playing liberal activist, I may rethink that and continue on with Windows Live.

[ShadowAce]

[sionnsar]

Search site aims to rival Google ( Called Cuil, from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel, )

Huh? From my MacBain's and MacFarlanes':

(cùil), corner, recess, Ir. [cu/il], O.Ir. [cuil], W. [cil], [*ku^li-]. See [cùl], a wile, trick; from [cu\il]+[beart].
[cùil] nf. g.+e; pl.+tean, recess, corner, niche, nook, closet See cùl
[cùl] nm. g.v. cùil; pl. cùil, the back, the hinder part

(eòl), , knowledge, Ir. [eo/l], [eolas], E.Ir. [eo/las], O.Ir. [heulas] , [d-eulus]: [*ivo-lestu]?
[eòlas] nm. g.v. -ais; pl.+an, knowledge, acquaintanceship

(calltuinn), hazel, Ir. E.Ir. [coll], W. [collen], Cor. [coll-widen]. M.Br. [quel-vezenn], [*koslo-]; Lat. [corylus]; Norse [hasl], Eng. [hazel]. [*coll]+[tann].
[calltuinn] nm. hazel

[JDoutrider]

Good thing I did a search!

I was just going to post a link.

The best part of this search engine is just the fact it’s not Google. I HATE giving them hits... It’s like handing Obama a wad of cash, and I appreciate the opportunity to add this to my other than Google search sites!