Cuil has a new layout

#1

Post by anuraggoel » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC

Cuil has a new layout
cuil.com

Re: Cuil has a new layout

#2

Post by dylanz » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 7:16 AM UTC

Scroll down to the RDT entry: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ruby

You're getting there Cuil... but not quite there yet. Not... quite... there.

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by allocativeeffic » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:02 AM UTC

dylanz wrote: post #2

Scroll down to the RDT entry: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ruby You're getting there Cuil... but not quite there yet. Not... quite... there.

:O I don't get how such a thing could have happened -- maybe a key collision or something??

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by xenoterracide » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:13 AM UTC

interesting... but results aren't so great relevancy wise and pictures don't go with the results they are linking to. (search postgres and postgresql. separately)

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by rms » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:18 AM UTC

Cuil as a unit of measure: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7da5i/police_raid...

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by jseifer » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:33 AM UTC

dylanz wrote: post #2

Scroll down to the RDT entry: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ruby You're getting there Cuil... but not quite there yet. Not... quite... there.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=css has a hilariously mismatched picture also. Look at the "centricle" article.

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by user » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:40 AM UTC

Why are they still in business ?

Re: Cuil has a new layout

#8

Post by rms » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:40 AM UTC

allocativeeffic wrote: post #3

dylanz wrote: post #2

Scroll down to the RDT entry: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ruby You're getting there Cuil... but not quite there yet. Not... quite... there.

:O I don't get how such a thing could have happened -- maybe a key collision or something??

Cuil-bomb, perhaps? People exploiting however Cuil does the rankings to make mismatches intentionally.

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by axod » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 8:58 AM UTC

It's a ridiculous layout IMHO, Seems to be a fixed width thing, which results in vast expanses of white unused space to the right of the results.

Re: Cuil has a new layout

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Post by swombat » Wed, Mar 04, 2009, 9:01 AM UTC

axod wrote: post #9

It's a ridiculous layout IMHO, Seems to be a fixed width thing, which results in vast expanses of white unused space to the right of the results.

I knew you were going to say that!...