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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">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...]</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">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?]</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">They do seem to run into the same downside as google, though, on some or all of their results:</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> -- your "search" was a common enough search that the result is a search page result from someone else / a "parked" page search engine / etc.</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> -- 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</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> -- defunct sites [already!]</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> -- sites that refer to other sites [iframed or otherwise]</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">But then, perhaps I'm being picky...</FONT></B>
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<P><B></B><A HREF="http://www.cuil.com"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Courier New">http://www.cuil.com</FONT></U></B></A><B></B>
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