[SGVLUG] New "cuil" searches suffering from the /. Effect... ???

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

I saw a tech news item last night -- seems some former Google employees
have started their own search engine -- cuil [pronounced "cool"] --
today is the first day of operation and I'm already running into the
slashdot effect [server load too high, try your search again in a
moment...]

Instead of the "boring" google result layout, they have a "cuil"
magazine-like layout for search results [ok, some spiffy CSS never hurt
anyone, right?]  they also claim some 20-billion web pages indexed [or
was it trillion?]

They do seem to run into the same downside as google, though, on some or
all of their results:

  -- your "search" was a common enough search that the result is a
search page result from someone else / a "parked" page search engine /
etc.

  -- sites that have enough "keywords" in the text part to match your
query, but don't actually render the text part, instead the "page" is a
graphic selling viagra or similar

  -- defunct sites [already!]

  -- sites that refer to other sites [iframed or otherwise]

But then, perhaps I'm being picky...

http://www.cuil.com


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