Comments on: Cuil is Back Up! Sort of! http://technologizer.com/2008/07/28/cuil-is-back-up-sort-of/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:46:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Karlonia - Cuil Results http://technologizer.com/2008/07/28/cuil-is-back-up-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Karlonia - Cuil Results Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:28:33 +0000 http://technologizer.wordpress.com/?p=164#comment-185 Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two - many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil's claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine. In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall. Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two – many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil’s claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.

In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.

]]> By: dan tynan http://technologizer.com/2008/07/28/cuil-is-back-up-sort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-108 dan tynan Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:44:28 +0000 http://technologizer.wordpress.com/?p=164#comment-108 you know, my second thought (after the one that cuil was just a terrible name) was that it looked like a gaelic word. and damned if I wasn't right. thanks for the shoutout, hm. dt you know, my second thought (after the one that cuil was just a terrible name) was that it looked like a gaelic word. and damned if I wasn’t right. thanks for the shoutout, hm.

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