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Review: Out of the gate, Cuil is ambitious but flawed

Saumil Mehta, VentureBeat07.28.2008
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After not much fanfare but plenty of anticipation, a new search engine called Cuil has launched. In spite of all the noise about the founders’ pedigree and the company’s index size, the only thing that makes a search engine tick is the relevance of its results across several dimensions. I spent... (Read more)

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Not sure what the news is, that former Google employees started a rival company or that Cuil indexes more pages.

Either way, you're still going to have to click through a bunch of junk to find what you want.

BTW, there is free software available from Surf Canyon (http://www.surfcanyon) that makes search better and faster by re-ranking Google, Yahoo! and MSN on the fly.

How many times have you enter a search on Google or Cuil and get millions of results, there has to be something valuable beyond page one. Digging through all those pages, however, is too time-consuming, so few people do it.

Surf Canyon helps solve this problem. The technology observes your actions as you search, automatically figures out what it is that you want and then, on the fly, digs as deep as page 100 the search results and fetches it for you. It's like a search engine for the search results.

Cheers,
Steven Blinn
BlinnPR


Insightful review, Saumil!


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