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PhilB66:
Cuil was launched today.



Info @ www.cuil.com/info/



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f0dder:
But it's not google, so who cares? :)

Darwin:
Heh, heh I just tried it and it keeps timing out while trying the search. I expect they're a bit overloaded at the moment!

CWuestefeld:
Not impressed.

I ran some searches to see how my site would fare in the relevance. In Google, a search for "hancock gas lease" brings up my site first out of 68,900 hits. In cuil, that search yielded no results.

I then searched for "gas lease hancock" and got 434 results, and my site doesn't appear in the first page (again, Google lists it first).

No results vs. 434, for the same set of words, just reordered? Huh?

So I went back and re-ran the first query, and got the same 434 results as the second. Why didn't the first return any results (not an error, mind you, but "0 results").

My site is very targeted and topical, so there's a good reason that Google puts it at the top for this query. I can't see why it shouldn't show up on the first page of Cuil.

But more important is the inconsistent results...

Edit: change "can" to what I really meant: "can't"

mediaguycouk:
I did a search for myself and found the wrong pictures on the wrong articles.

And that took a 3 minutes wait per page

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