Ex-Googlers launch rival search engine

[Computer Hope Admin]

Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

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New search engine (Cuil -- dumb name(imo)) here

[evilfantasy]

I saw this a few days ago. Can't say I'm overly impressed but I do like it. 

[Computer Hope Admin]

Yeah it's got good results (for the most part). Really dislike the name though, I'd think someone with the capabilities to make this good of a search engine would of thought the name through a little more.  Don't really care for how the results are displayed either. I do however, like the idea of creating picture icons for the sites.

Overall not terrible, but still has a long way to go before it has any hopes of competing with Google.

[evilfantasy]

Not sure about the picture icons. The first thing I searched with it is my screen name. Depending on the site it looks like I am either one of two breeds of dogs or someone of a different ethnicity....

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=evilfantasy

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Interesting.....

[Pat09]

Like everything chance is inevitable. There will come a time when Google will not be used by the masses. *censored* look at Microsoft is slowing losing market shares as Cloud and SASS computer comes into play.

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

I dont like it how old is it?

[ChrisXPPro]

Checked it out today and set up a search that ''should'' have brought up results I'd anticipate in Google - nope - didn't impress one bit.

Might be a cool engine but the display does not cut the mustard in my book - still find Google does the job for me.

[hyperhedron]

OK, tried it. I can't say i'm really a fan, but this is all because of the layout.

You can't get it to display more than 11 results.

and the final problem i have with it is that is simply isn't as fast as google. There are pictures to load, and a fancy layout for the browser to deal with, and normally this wouldn't be a problem but i am using a slow computer with only 256 mb of ram. So i'll stick with google for the time being, until i get a nicer computer.

[evilfantasy]

A scathing review > http://www.gorillasushi.com/?q=node/833

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

apparently moms dont like it.

http://parentzing.wordpress.com/

[CBMatt]

I have been waiting half an hour for the site to load, but nothing has shown up.  Hmph.

All I know is that "I'm gonnna Cuil it" doesn't have the same ring.

[!~*:.Pink Floyd.:*~!]

I have been waiting half an hour for the site to load, but nothing has shown up.  Hmph.

All I know is that "I'm gonnna Cuil it" doesn't have the same ring.

hehe yeah Apparently its pronounced Cool.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I have been waiting half an hour for the site to load, but nothing has shown up.  Hmph.

All I know is that "I'm gonnna Cuil it" doesn't have the same ring.

hehe yeah Apparently its pronounced Cool.

I don't see how...

It looks more like 'Kewl'

[Computer Hope Admin]

apparently moms dont like it.

http://parentzing.wordpress.com/

Hope this isn't anyone's blog on the forums and that I don't offend anyone but the blog post was pretty bad, they primarily didn't like it because their blog wasn't showing up on the search engine.

However, parents do have some reason to worry because apparently they had a file corruption that caused some results to return adult results for some search queries that were not adult related searches.