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chasb
07-28-2008, 07:37 AM
New search engine launches today. A startup from a few former Google employees.


http://www.cuil.com/


http://www.cuil.com/info/news_press/

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search
MENLO PARK, Calif.—July 28, 2008—Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Cuil’s methods guarantee online privacy for searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based on content instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary, so personal search history is always private.

Summary of Cuil’s features:

Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine

Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category

Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity

Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories

Steven Edwards
07-28-2008, 07:42 AM
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Spinal+Cord+Injury

We didn’t find any results for “Spinal Cord Injury”

Lazlo
07-28-2008, 11:41 AM
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Spinal+Cord+Injury

We didn’t find any results for “Spinal Cord Injury”
Must be a glitch, I saw "1,000,000 results", then tried the same search again and got no results. Probably still working out the bugs.

The magazine format would take some getting used to, but I like the idea.

Lazlo
07-28-2008, 11:46 AM
Definitely buggy. I searched "how is babby formed" and got 21,912 results, but only two pages are available. The second page always comes back with no results. Ah well, so much for the Grand Opening.

PN
07-28-2008, 08:59 PM
I decided to bookmark and give Cuil a try because they don't keep logs! I had a fun time using Searchme (http://www.searchme.com/Initial.html) and I would recommend giving this search engine a try so you see what I mean. As of now none of these search engines are better than Google.

Juke_spin
07-28-2008, 11:43 PM
Definitely buggy. I searched "how is babby formed" and got 21,912 results, but only two pages are available. The second page always comes back with no results. Ah well, so much for the Grand Opening.

I been trying to use it since about noon but I get a lot more "high load" refusals than anything else. The one tea search it did produced new sources though.

Scott Pruett
07-29-2008, 12:28 AM
meh. it's kinda neat, but from a usability standpoint, it's lagging.

Google > all.