A Google rival from ex-Googlers
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Yea noticed it this morning, it's been "slashdotted" for a little while today too. So... it indexes many more pages than Google, great... now how about you make the results relevant, and the images match up...
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Rubbish. My test search: "MSDN console writeline" Google - 614,000 results. First one is the MSDN page for the system.console.writeline method. Cuil - We didn’t find any results for “MSDN console writeline”!! :wtf: Seriously! None! Nothing! Not a single mention of any of those words on all 121,617,892,992 pages! They are clearly indexing 121,617,892,992 pages I care nothing about. [Edit: Then: "We’ll be back soon... Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity. Thanks for your patience." - Well don't spend too much on those servers, as we'll be gone soon :laugh: ]
Simon
modified on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:22 AM
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
And our survey says 'whaaaah waaaaah' when it comes to technical material. Try searching for linq datacontext. The columns aren't very usable as you can't just read down the page. You can try to read across, but the results aren't tabular, so they're not quite lined up in rows. The categories box fools the eye into thinking the third column is a load of Google adverts too!
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
First impressions are negative, and most are covered already by previous posters. 1. Black page? I strongly suspect there were teenagers involved in design. 2. Searched for "wd10eacs 00D6B0", 0 results returned, whereas with google I get one or two relevant links. 3. No "cached" version of the search result. 4. Awkward results layout which is hard to scan quickly. 5. Plain Jane. No shopping, maps, news, finance functionality. So far I'm not impressed.
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Now, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and a few other Google alumni, she is trying to upstage her former employer. Man, I think that's the dumbest thing to do--go into competition with your former employer. Even if you think your non-compete (and so forth) agreement has expired, you're still setting yourself up to be killed just on the cost of fighting the lawsuit, regardless if you win in the end. Marc
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
My co-worker and I were discussing it this morning. I tried a few searches, and I hope they're not considering themselves ready for prime-time. Several simple searches returned no hits, whereas thousands were returned by other search tools. Also, it was weird - a couple would be returned on the first page, then one or two on the next page, then five on the third. No rhyme or reason to it. I also can't stand the full black page. Scott
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
CodeProject is a typo[^] a) Trying to be cool is so lame. Cuil? Just trying too hard b) If you're going to challenge an existing system then you at least need to look like you have a better product.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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CodeProject is a typo[^] a) Trying to be cool is so lame. Cuil? Just trying too hard b) If you're going to challenge an existing system then you at least need to look like you have a better product.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I repeated the search and it's showing there's 85K results but just hanging and not showing any actual results. Same result if I hit Refresh. Google = 5.5 million and instant page load Cuil = 85K and the page doesn't load. Round 2: Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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WTF?[^] ( @ 'My success in scientology' image )
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008):laugh: So, you must be SA's highest paid developer to have any success in Scientology. ;P
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I repeated the search and it's showing there's 85K results but just hanging and not showing any actual results. Same result if I hit Refresh. Google = 5.5 million and instant page load Cuil = 85K and the page doesn't load. Round 2: Google.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
CodeProject = no results codeproject = 85,465 results and (for me) fast load Definitely not ready for prime time - or drive time, either. edit Tried to demonstrate the sensitivity to capital letters later and could not do so.
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modified on Monday, July 28, 2008 12:39 PM
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
They better change that URL. I mixed up the l and i in their URL and got porn. Hopefully I do not get my network security's attention...
John
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CodeProject is a typo[^] a) Trying to be cool is so lame. Cuil? Just trying too hard b) If you're going to challenge an existing system then you at least need to look like you have a better product.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Trying to be cool is so lame. Cuil? Just trying too hard
Its even worse. See my post about the URL below. http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2655000#xx2655000xx[^]
John
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
I am thinking, I see why there are "ex" employees ;) They really needed to study in the business end of things before they did something this stupid. Hmmm... Let's launch a search engine that has serious bugs, hardware that crashes and not even put it out in beta first.. I hope they did not pay a fortune to obtain the domain name ;)
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Rubbish. My test search: "MSDN console writeline" Google - 614,000 results. First one is the MSDN page for the system.console.writeline method. Cuil - We didn’t find any results for “MSDN console writeline”!! :wtf: Seriously! None! Nothing! Not a single mention of any of those words on all 121,617,892,992 pages! They are clearly indexing 121,617,892,992 pages I care nothing about. [Edit: Then: "We’ll be back soon... Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity. Thanks for your patience." - Well don't spend too much on those servers, as we'll be gone soon :laugh: ]
Simon
modified on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:22 AM
I just got this: No results because of high load... Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again. on their homepage: Search 121,617,892,992 web pages ...what they don't mention is that most of those pages are "404" pages :laugh: :doh:
Steve
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine[^] /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Ridiculously inaccurate. Do a search for Microsoft - the Microsoft home page isn't hit number 1. Lookie here: It's pure failure.[^]
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