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Ten Reasons It’s So Damn Hard to Out-Google Google

Monday, July 28, 2008

Sifting through the blogosphere buzz on search engine Cuil today, just about everyone broaches the question of whether it might be a better search engine than Google–maybe even a more successful one someday. Judging from my experience with it so far, the real question is whether it’ll get marginally adequate, not whether it’ll topple the [...]

Cuil is Back Up! Sort of!

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Last night when I trudged off to bed, much-hyped new search engine Cuil had launched, was giving me odd-to-awful results–and then was replaced with a “We’ll Be Back” page saying that it was proving so popular that they had to take it offline to beef up their server capacity. This morning, it’s back up and running. [...]

Is Cuil a Googleslayer? Nope, Not Yet–Not Hardly

Monday, July 28, 2008

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A search engine called Cuil launched tonight. It touts itself as the world’s largest search engine, with more than 121 billion pages indexed–three times as many as Google, it says. Its “About Cuil” page sniffs at “superficial popularity metrics”–for which read Google’s PageRank–and says that it has a better approach to figuring out a page’s [...]