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Why Cuil Sucks - It can't even find itself

6 points| geuis | 17 years ago |cuil.com | reply

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[+] compay|17 years ago|reply
Maybe that's because it's only supposed to return relevant results. Seems to be working well here.
[+] icey|17 years ago|reply
Does someone have a greasemonkey script to filter out all these stupid Cuil posts yet?

We get it, Cuil sucks.

[+] byrneseyeview|17 years ago|reply
My #1 result was http://whois.ws/whois-com/ip-address/cuil.com/ . They had some other whois results, too.

I wonder if they realized how many people would read about it on Techcrunch, then search for Techcrunch on it to take it for a spin -- and quickly reworked the algorithm to give a higher weight to URLs.

[+] oxtopus|17 years ago|reply
Doesn't that make sense?

Before the launch, weren't they in stealth? Shouldn't it take time for the index to catch up?

[+] Zev|17 years ago|reply
That search worked for me..
[+] tx|17 years ago|reply
How pathetic. (you, not cuil). Go and make fun of Facebook instead. It's a fucking MESSAGE BOARD WRITTEN IN PHP. At least Cuil is trying to build something not trivial and useless, facing real competition and going after real money.
[+] compay|17 years ago|reply
As soon as their search results aren't terrible, I'll be rooting for them. But right now it's all sizzle and no beef.