Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search • Hacker News Board

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by bdr » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:32 AM UTC

"Rather than trying to mimic Google's method of ranking the quantity and quality of links to Web sites, Patterson says Cuill's technology drills into the actual content of a page."

Fancy presentation can't save you from the fate of altavista. What are they doing to solve the trust problem?

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by arockwell » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:33 AM UTC

demandred wrote: post #9

how is it pronounced? their name is not memorable.

According to the article its "cool". I agree that it is not a memorable name.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by vaksel » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:38 AM UTC

arockwell wrote: post #12

demandred wrote: post #9

how is it pronounced? their name is not memorable.

According to the article its "cool". I agree that it is not a memorable name.

sounds more like kewl

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by mynameishere » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:39 AM UTC

I searched for one of my own websites and was extremely pissed to find that it found a bunch of more popular sites that link to it, but not the site itself. Eff that. I'm 100 percent in favor of google competitors, but that's just invalid...

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by cvg » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:40 AM UTC

demandred wrote: post #9

how is it pronounced? their name is not memorable.

It's just as memorable as google was on it's first day. A little branding and constantly improving results could make it a player. But, only time will tell. I'm cheering for them.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by bigbang » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:44 AM UTC

give it some time folks. google wasnt better than ask.com when it launched.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by azharcs » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:49 AM UTC

agotterer wrote: post #2

This has some serious work still... A search for my name put me in a porno context with an image of a naked girl. The name of the video was "dirty movie", and the html title tag was "dirty movie on vimeo". This was not a pornographic video. Cuil matched a thumbnail image from movieon.com with a man and a woman having sex. This is something I dont want my name associated with. Second, I did a search, then hit search a…

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

I can see the info page.. Since lot of people are covering them, they are seeing a spike in traffic and maybe not able to handle it.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by azharcs » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:52 AM UTC

Anything that can compete with Google is a good thing. I have already added them as my default search in Firefox and hoping they get better. Results are not yet perfect yet, but at least they are doing things differently. Best of Luck Cuill.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by paul » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:56 AM UTC

bigbang wrote: post #16

give it some time folks. google wasnt better than ask.com when it launched.

Yes it was. Ask Jeeves was a stupid "natural language" thing back then -- basically a giant, hand edited, FAQ.

Re: Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 28, 2008, 5:59 AM UTC

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