Cuil

[alexander]

No, it's hard to keep up with Google, because they are firstly and foremost a company dedicated to search engine, and not anything else. Yahoo is angled on ads, microsoft, at bringing small companies out of business, but google is the one search engine that first and foremost deals with searching. Cuil is ok, but it's in its infancy, we have to get them to take time to work out their weaknesses, and who knows, they may bring google out of the market dominance...

[Mercedes Benzene]

Originally Posted by alexander

No, it's hard to keep up with Google, because they are firstly and foremost a company dedicated to search engine, and not anything else. Yahoo is angled on ads, microsoft, at bringing small companies out of business, but google is the one search engine that first and foremost deals with searching. Cuil is ok, but it's in its infancy, we have to get them to take time to work out their weaknesses, and who knows, they may bring google out of the market dominance...

Yeah. I agree completely. It's interesting to note that they're already improving. When I first check yesterday morning, I searched the random word "butter" and noted the number of hits as well as the relevance of the hits. I checked again in the evening, and the number of hits tripled, and the relevance was much more impressive.
They still can't seem to bring a searcher to Hypo's home page though.

[freeztar]

I found a good article on this here:
6abc.com: Google enemy has (search) engine trouble 7/29/08

Notably -- and on the heels of complaints about most search engines' practice of saving search history -- Cuil promises total search privacy; no saved history -- no big brother (or big advertising agency) watching.

[alexander]

Yeah like we all fell for that one

btw

what does google eat for lunch? - Cuil

vs

what does google eat for lunch? - Google Search

msdewey found 1,500,000 results btw

[CraigD]

I’ve a confession: while I’m as heavy a search engine user as most of us hypographers ( Google first, than any of dozens if I don’t like the results), I philosophically abhor the concept, the way… searching for a metaphor … how about, “the way a fundamentalist Muslim abhors a peeping tom”.

Though “the semantic web” is deserving the criticism that it’s essentially vaporware, I can’t shake the idea that it’s the technical right way to go, rather than the “indexing by commercial 3rd party” that’s currently dominating the real web. On top of that, reassuring corporate mottos like “don’t be evil” aside, I’m chilled by the prospect that, like any publicly owned corporation, Google could turn as evil as it likes upon the whim of whoever is writing its staffs’ checks.

Most fundamentally, there’s something obscenely unindexed about a world of information in which web crawlers outnumber humans on all but the most socially intense webservers.

I’m whining without offering a solution – despite a decade of on/off efforts to “semanticize” my personal hypertext web, I’ve nothing even remotely as useful as a simple text searcher.

Argh, do I feel guilty!