Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search

July 28, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer

Computers displaying Google's search engine on display at the Digitallife show at New York's Jacob K. Javitz convention center in this Oct. 14, 2004 file photo. Cuill, a startup search engine backed by $33 million in venture capital, plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(AP) -- 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.

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• superhuman - Jul 28, 2008
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  Talk is cheap
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• magpies - Jul 28, 2008
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  I tryed useing it... Seems ok kinda cool to use a search with a different layout but didnt really notice anything that amazing about it.
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• CreepyD - Jul 28, 2008
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  Strange, I just tried a few search terms.
  1st, google returned 2.7mil. Cuil returned 49k.
  Another search term, google 1.5mil. Cuil 0..!
  Another google 19.7mil, Cuil 0..
  I'm assuming it's not properly running yet?
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• KB6 - Jul 28, 2008
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  It seems that Google still has more comprehensive foreign language support. Google will give you valid results for Chinese, Japanese or Korean character search terms. Cuil gags on them.
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• ShadowRam - Jul 28, 2008
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  Just tried it.. out of 3 searches that I know exist, cuil outright failed 2 of 3.. (didn't find anything) and 1 was a miss my a mile...
  
  what a POS
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• Yes - Jul 28, 2008
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  I tried a search on dairy and it gave 0 results.
  Then I hit the tab dairy products and it gave me 54000 results.
  When refining gives more results then there is something wrong or, Site is hacked already?
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• MGraser - Jul 28, 2008
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  Apparently, they weren't able to handle the load. Just went to their site and...
  
  "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."
  
  Doesn't bode well.
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• Bobl - Jul 28, 2008
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  Want to see a good one! If you search cuil for "cuil", it doesn't find itself in the first page of results.
  
  I also searched for my email provider "Juno" and quil did not find the movie.
  
  FYI, gogle found both of the above
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• IAMoraes - Jul 28, 2008
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  Unfortunately they probably DO gag on foreign languages: "Cuil" sounds like a vulgarity in both Portuguese and Spanish.
  
  No mistake about it, though: good site, great engine.
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• MikeBenton - Jul 29, 2008
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  The search results I got were not at all relevant. I performed a niche search on some terms that should have returned 3 specific websites on the first page and returned none within 10 pages.
  
  Sorry to say this is a failure in my book.
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• ALMUTHANA - Jul 29, 2008
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  i don,t care about google
  thats stupid
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• billyswong - Aug 03, 2008
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  Sorry, I really need a search engine that understand Chinese. Its interface looks interesting, but don't claim itself biggest okay?
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