Cuil - Google Rival from Ex Googlers


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Web Adrress: www.Cuil.com

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 (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today?s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

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The People Behind It[/Oh ... and the best part it's their privacy policy. Just give it a readad(Y)> (Y)

The Privacy Policy

Some quotes from the policy

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I don't care for it. I searched for a person and I got way off results. Hopefully it gets better.

Personally I'll give it some time since this is pretty new stuff. I still remember when Google was at that stage and Altavista was king of the hill.

I had a similar impression of Google on its beginning days. :D

Tried a comparison search for "HTML Doctypes" on both search engines.

Google's Top 5:

- HTML Validation: Choosing a DOCTYPE (htmlhelp.com)

- HTML DOCTYPE TAG (W3Schools.com)

- Recommended list of DTDs (W3.org)

- Choosing a DOCTYPE (Elizabethcastro.com

- HTML5 DOCTYPE (ejohn.org)

Cuil's Top 5:

- "Transitional Doctypes are Stupid"

- A page from a web page design quiz

- Why the style tag should exist in a page with the STRICT doctype

- List of Doctypes (maxdesign.com.au)

- Some tech support about some woman with a problem rendering web pages

The fact that not a single W3 webpage appears in the search results demonstrates to me that the search algorithm needs a hell of a lot of work! In fact, if I were looking for a list of HTML doctypes, The top result from Google would suffice, but the only even remotely relevant link in cuil's results is the fourth one.

Very disappointing.

Don't like the result presentation, as others have said. Front page nice though.

I also found it's results to be pretty poor. Typed in the titles of several sites and none of them were even present in the results! Google always gets them as the first result. Even the ones that have existed no more than a week or two, amazingly.

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