A Google rival from ex-Googlers

Bassam Abdul Baki

You beat me to it. My first test is usually to search myself. I must say, I'm impressed by the format.

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Simon P Stevens

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: ]

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Simon Capewell

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!

daniilzol

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.

Marc Clifton

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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scottgp

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

Chris Maunder

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

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eyeseetee

strange I just searched for codeproject and found results... Results

Chris Maunder

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

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Brady Kelly

:laugh: So, you must be SA's highest paid developer to have any success in Scientology. ;P

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Oakman

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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Yusuf

like many, initial impression not that great. I think the recipe for success are, simplicity, speed and relevancy, which I did not notice in my first trial

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John M Drescher

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...

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John M Drescher

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

Rocky Moore

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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Steve Mayfield · 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

jlwarlow

Looks OK, I'll be sticking with Live search for now though - Cuil isn't returning results relevant to my searches, especially regarding MSDN!

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The Cake of Deceit

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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