www.cuil.com = pile of sh*t!

thelordofcheese · 29-07-2008 03:37PM

ITT: people don't know how a search engine works and demonstrate they have the memory span of a goldfish.

Krieg · 29-07-2008 04:10PM

In light of legal proceedings issued by Cuil.com, we have been advised that there is to be no further discussion of cuil.com or events hosted by cuil.com.

cornbb · 29-07-2008 04:11PM

Krieg wrote: »

In light of legal proceedings issued by Cuil.com, we have been advised that there is to be no further discussion of cuil.com or events hosted by cuil.com.

lol

29-07-2008 04:13PM

Krieg wrote: »

In light of legal proceedings issued by Cuil.com, we have been advised that there is to be no further discussion of cuil.com or events hosted by cuil.com.

All 45 million of them.

Dord · 29-07-2008 04:30PM

I don't like these little pictures they put beside the links. For one of the websites I run it shows a picture of a gravestone, entirely unrelated to it and the picture is contained nowhere on the pages of the site or ever has been.

faceman · 29-07-2008 04:39PM

I tried it a few times yesterday and on each occasion it returned no search results. Tis crap!

Blisterman · 29-07-2008 05:47PM

I cuiled my name, and got some results google didn't have, so that's a plus.

Flukey · 29-07-2008 11:35PM

I was not that impressed. It's cool, but not very hot.:cool:

kerry4sam · 29-07-2008 11:44PM

never been any good of a site being honest

Tha Gopher · 30-07-2008 12:28AM

Why in this day and age set up a rival for Google?

I was shocked that "only" 60% of net searches are via google. Honestly, who the fcuk uses Yahoo, Lycos or Jeeves these days? Not sure Ive touched any of them since about 2001.

In truth Google is probably the most important tech advancement since the mobile phone.

marco murphy · 30-07-2008 01:20AM

I like it actually. But ''cuil'' isn't ideal for word of mouth.

0utshined · 30-07-2008 01:22AM

Doesn't live up to the hype.

Search on google for site:boards.ie "www.cuil.com" and you get a page of results, this thread being one.

Try the same search on Cuil.com and nada.

Try "your name" +hometown and I get 0 results on Cuil and a page or more on google.

I dunno about the rest of ye but I try and restrict my search terms as much as possible to get relevant results and Cuil isn't giving me anything when I do that.

It's always good to have another alternative but I would like to know how much testing they have done for things like that before release. Like it or not straight search isn't enough anymore. There are now conventions that I would expect any search engine to have before I started using it and if it doesn't have them I don't want to use it for my own ease o use.

I read in the paper today they had €33m of VC funding plus whatever the founders put in. I wonder what the burn rate is, maybe that's why they released it to such fanfare?

dionsiseire · 30-07-2008 02:50AM

apparently the other day most of their servers went down under the pressure and only a few % of the actual available results were available to people searching. hence the lack of results

searching my name does not reveal my .com address which is the same as my name

and searching for goldenplec does not reveal the website goldenplec.com that i run

thats pretty poor.

apparently this is their attempt to provide a semantic solution to searching on the web (i.e. providing literal meaning to words as opposed to text searching) so that for jaguar results would be split into the car manufacturer, the animal, the operating system etc etc

AlmightyCushion · 30-07-2008 02:56AM

dionsiseire wrote: »

apparently this is their attempt to provide a semantic solution to searching on the web (i.e. providing literal meaning to words as opposed to text searching) so that for jaguar results would be split into the car manufacturer, the animal, the operating system etc etc

And probably throw back half a billion boards polls.

dade · 30-07-2008 09:11AM

i put in mustang GT on it the results came back fine but when i clicked on the link it gave it opened porn, now I'm off to explain myself to the boss

Ziggurat · 30-07-2008 09:39AM

Seem to be quite a few people saying that this was well reported. Am I the only one who never heard of it until this thread?

pickarooney · 30-07-2008 09:44AM

First result for 'pickarooney' links to Fortycoats. In almost 10 years, Google has never made the association.

It's not all bad.

thelordofcheese · 30-07-2008 09:52AM

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Why in this day and age set up a rival for Google?

because competition is a good thing.

cornbb · 30-07-2008 10:13AM

thelordofcheese wrote: »

because competition is a good thing.

Indeed. Google are very good at what they do, but its wrong for the whole world to rely on just the one search engine. Whenever you google something, the results you get are just google's interpretation of what you're looking for (if you know what I mean). No matter how good a search engine is it will always have a sort of bias built in.

Google wasn't in itself a major technological advancement by the way (IMO). There were search engines around years before Google, Google just happen to do it particularly well. I still remember when Yahoo! was king!

unnameduser · 30-07-2008 10:48AM

i for one hope that it challenges google. Give this S.E. some time and lets see what it can do.

Sherifu · 30-07-2008 10:50AM

Give them a chance to get going. Check back with them in a year.

Cianos · 30-07-2008 11:50AM

I think it's a good thing for a new engine to be out there that is taking a completely different approach.

Google puts too much emphasis on the top sites in the world. Nearly any search has facebook/myspace/wikipedia/youtube/blogger/wordpress on the front page. It seems Google want the Internet to BE only a handful of sites.

The more variation in how the net is searched and results delivered, hopefully the more the smaller more niche websites will get rewarded too and not be shunned to the deeper pages.

Captain Ginger · 30-07-2008 11:54AM

Read this thread last night and this morning I woke up in a dream and wanted to know the time, so in my dream I typed it "Time in Dublin" into google, but it kept showing up on this cuil search page where it was wrong and every time I reloaded the page it would drasticly change the time.

F**k you cuil.com for screwing with my head.

www.cuil.com = pile of sh*t!

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