Cuil not cuttin’ it.
August 10, 2008 by Jenn Sierra
Filed under FHK Web Warriors
A couple of weeks ago, I asked some friends to check out the new search engine, Cuil, to see if this might be a viable alternative to Google.
It has potential, after all, as it has been developed by some former Google employees.
Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency. Read more
Cuil. Could this be a real alternative to Google?
July 29, 2008 by Jenn Sierra
Filed under FHK Web Warriors
After year of watching Google become more and more of a propaganda tool for the left, (see Aid and Comfort on Google, e-doublespeak? i-resist!, Blogger.com Makes It Too Easy to Censor Blogs - What to Do?, and Ask not what Digg can Do for You), many of us have been looking for an alternative search engine.
Sure, there have always been alternatives, but until now, they’ve always been too specialized for general use, too much like Google, or have just not lived up to what we’ve come to expect from Google. Google’s a great search engine from a technical, but it has become a battleground for truth.
If only some of the folks who run Google would come to their senses, and “fix” the problems. Well, guess what? The folks who have developed “Cuil,” say that they’ve done just that: Read more
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