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mloskot says Cuil
OSGeo says it too
Update 2008-07-28: Below, see my reply to Jason’s comment and here is a small visualization of the problem
mloskot says Cuil
OSGeo says it too
Update 2008-07-28: Below, see my reply to Jason’s comment and here is a small visualization of the problem
July 28th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Interesting. I like the UI. Not as efficient for directed search of known topics (I no longer use bookmarks because Google takes me to the site I want, every time) but for prospecting it’s very interesting.
I haven’t been getting the most useful results for any of the searches that I’ve tried though. In many cases, I get sites that are link farms or built for advertising. I might try it again once they get through their teething issues but at this point, for quality of results: FAIL.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Jason, I have similar impression. I explain it to myself this way, Cuil is a young project and as the Cuil announcement says, it uses different and innovative indexing strategy. Means, Cuil is focused on a page content rather than on popularity. Plus, Cuil seems to try to combine different resources (text, images, video, etc.) while compiling result set. It leads to funny results.
For example, try to search for name, check the very first website returned and compare description with photo displayed on the right side :-)