Comments on: Cuil Internet Search Engine — Um… Not found? http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/ “It is impossible for a software organization to be saved in ignorance.” Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:18:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: sjn http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-971 sjn Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-971 so I live in Houston and hurricane ike has just come through. We have power back but we're still isolated. Decided to test out cuil again. Searching for "one updates" brought up *nothing* related. On the other hand the same search on google produced nothing but results about the hurricane. Again it's not the size of the index but the power of the contextual mapping. Sent from my iPhone --sun so I live in Houston and hurricane ike has just come through. We have power back but we’re still isolated. Decided to test out cuil again. Searching for “one updates” brought up *nothing* related. On the other hand the same search on google produced nothing but results about the hurricane. Again it’s not the size of the index but the power of the contextual mapping.

Sent from my iPhone

–sun

]]> By: John Jenkins http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-970 John Jenkins Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:26:50 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-970 Update 3: Search for Cuil John Jenkins in Cuil finally finds this post. Too bad they didn't read it carefully. Update 3: Search for Cuil John Jenkins in Cuil finally finds this post. Too bad they didn’t read it carefully.

]]> By: John Jenkins http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-969 John Jenkins Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:25:26 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-969 Update 2: Is Cuil Killing the Internet? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090101406.html Update 2: Is Cuil Killing the Internet? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090101406.html

]]> By: Seth http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-855 Seth Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:37:44 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-855 This is so awesome... it just made my day. I did some more testing. Here are my search terms on cuil.com and the top hit (top hit hard to figure out because not numbered) "cuil" -> cuil.com "cuil engine" -> seroundtable.com "cuil internet" -> cuil.com or internet.com "cuil search" -> various blogs *about* cuil, but not cuil.com "cuil search engine" -> seroundtable.com "cuil internet search" -> search-22.com (a collection of search engines including Cuil) or yahoo news about cuil "cuil internet search engine" -> still nothing. So, the moral of the story is, it's not just how many web pages you have indexed, but how well you match search terms to the indexed pages. -- SJN This is so awesome… it just made my day.

I did some more testing. Here are my search terms on cuil.com and the top hit (top hit hard to figure out because not numbered)

“cuil” -> cuil.com

“cuil engine” -> seroundtable.com

“cuil internet” -> cuil.com or internet.com

“cuil search” -> various blogs *about* cuil, but not cuil.com

“cuil search engine” -> seroundtable.com

“cuil internet search” -> search-22.com (a collection of search engines including Cuil) or yahoo news about cuil

“cuil internet search engine” -> still nothing.

So, the moral of the story is, it’s not just how many web pages you have indexed, but how well you match search terms to the indexed pages.

– SJN

]]> By: John Jenkins http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-849 John Jenkins Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:09:58 +0000 http://www.charlesknutson.net/2008/07/29/cuil-internet-search-engine-um-not-found/#comment-849 Update: Google indexed this posting approximately 2 hours after it was published, and brings it up when searching for "John Jenkins Cuil" as the top hit. As for Cuil? They still have no clue. Update: Google indexed this posting approximately 2 hours after it was published, and brings it up when searching for “John Jenkins Cuil” as the top hit. As for Cuil? They still have no clue.

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