Cuil Goes Down for Good • Hacker News Board

Re: Cuil Goes Down for Good

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Post by boyter » Mon, Sep 20, 2010, 5:53 AM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #88

darwinGod wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wonder why this was downvoted.. Is it bad to hope that Cuil is open sourced??

What do you want to learn - how to make a not-very-good search indexer?

No. How to make a highly scaleable search engine. Examples of this sort of thing are not out there, other then nutch and that hasnt been proven as scaling out to the size of cuil.

Cuil's problem was with their ranking, which may be related to what they were indexing, but not to their ability to scale out.

Re: Cuil Goes Down for Good

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Post by SLJones » Mon, Sep 20, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

Sad, liked the fact that I could search and not have my search saved for data mining purposes. I think privacy is an important thing. I think giving one company Google all that power is a very dangerous thing. I hope people wake up and start supporting alternative search engines and use Google as a last resort.

Re: Cuil Goes Down for Good

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Post by code_duck » Mon, Sep 20, 2010, 10:49 PM UTC

boyter wrote: post #91

code_duck wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you want to learn - how to make a not-very-good search indexer?

No. How to make a highly scaleable search engine. Examples of this sort of thing are not out there, other then nutch and that hasnt been proven as scaling out to the size of cuil. Cuil's problem was with their ranking, which may be related to what they were indexing, but not to their ability to scale out.

It's highly scalable in which sense?

Their index was very large, but their traffic was not. I think I've run websites that handled as much traffic as Cuil did on a good day.