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Paul Ferguson Member 
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"The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up — until now. Cuil [pronounced 'Cool'] searches more pages on the Web than anyone else — three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft." http://www.cuil.com/info/ http://www.cuil.com/search |
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Alan Pritchard Guest
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Hi Paul, Librarians & professional searchers have not been terribly impressed by Cuil see as one example http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/28/cuil-not-so-cool/ or http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-burdick/cuil-review-really-no-dav_b_115413.html A useful adjunct to other search engines. Alan |
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Paul Ferguson Member
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It does indeed seem very poor, and makes you wonder what their claim about outindexing Google is based on. The 'Explore by Category' feature looks promising, and there's also a feedback feature, but I think they have a long way to go. Other pluses: "Cuil aims to rank the relevance of search results by content analysis rather than by popularity. It's an obvious swipe at Google, which treats Web links as popular votes in weighing Web page relevance for a given query. "Cuil's privacy policy actually promises privacy: "When you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies. Your search history is your business, not ours."" http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209602251 |
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