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The net is going nuts with Cuil Fails. So I guess this isn’t really news. This would have to take the cake so far though
Useless. Search for my site, and I get a list of posts by me (good) with images that totally do not relate to me (EPIC FAIL).
I tried, but I kept getting the message that the server is under load. Awesome for a search engine!.
Piece. Of. Shit.
Doesn’t matter if it’s made by ex-google employees and that it has a quadzillion indexed websites. If the results are shit, if you’re lucky enough to get them, there’s no point in using it. They’re going to have to fight hard to get themselves out of this hole I reckon.
Arf! Mate, you’re going nuts in the blogging stakes lately. Loads of posts in the last week or so. Keep it up!
I shall do mate! I’m doing my best. Will have some more Euler stuff done soon, and I’ve got another one in the works to do with Suffix Trees and infinite-precision long division.
On a more relevant note: Cuil really does suck. Since I posted this I have actually managed to do a search. The results are truly horrendous. They’re going to have to work very hard to save face after this “launch”.
I kept searching for things that definitely SHOULD have given me results (my terribly odd website name, for instance) and I got the Spanish version of my last.fm profile. Totally useless. I also came across the “We didn’t find any results” page several times, which rarely happens in Google, and I know there should be some results for what my search terms were.
Overall, I am not impressed.
Hi Meggan, thanks for your comment!
It’s amazing how they could get things so wrong isn’t it? The sites that talked about Cuil prior to its release were touting how good the new search functionality would be based on a new set of algorithms that are better than Googles. You’d think that a fail of this magnitude would have got picked up well before launch.
I am also totally unimpressed.