Danny takes a deeper look at the new search engine aspiring to compete with Google and the conclusion is inevitable:
"With the huge caveat that nine queries are far from letting anyone conclude anything, I still didn’t come away with a sense that Cuil has Google-beating relevancy."
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"With the huge caveat that nine queries are far from letting anyone conclude anything, I still didn’t come away with a sense that Cuil has Google-beating relevancy."
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Just wanted to add that I am seeing an unatural percentage of proxy scrapers in the results. Search for your name/handle and you will see a lot of twitter scrapers.
Just managed to play about with Cuil a bit before it died! Results seem decent although not many long tail results available.Regarding the server crash, a message has now appeared saying:" 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." How embarassing can it get, did they not think that server load would be high for the launch of their new engine. Looks like Google will be retaining their crown until a new challenger comes along now. :(
Neyne, saw the same thing. Not sure how these are "relevant" results as the news claims.
I just did some half-serious ego searching for [winooski], and didn’t find anything about me...Which is good, because there shouldn’t be! (The real Winooski’s a lovely little city outside of Burlington, Vermont...sort-of like Alston compared with Boston.) However, one of the results tabs read "Missouri Winooski", so I clicked it out of curiousity. Whoa. Wall-to-wall scraped spam pages. Like, 7 pages-worth.
Just did a simple search about Gilbert Arenas and his huge new pool. Quite irrelevant results with 2 and 3 year old news stories of games. No relevancy in all the pages. In google, the first 30 results were all relevant to Gilberts new pool.