-=PCTechTalk=- Re: cuil.com

valid points all.  but if you remember, when google started out, there were 
no paid for advertizing or links that would generate at the top of a search 
as it does now.  I loved google back in the day... now I find it cumbersome, 
as I don't want to search amazon or ebay, if I did, I would go to those 
sites.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:46 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: cuil.com


> Who CUIL or Google tracks is not the problem.  Its the websites they
> index.  I find it extremely odd that of the multiple billions of pages
> indexed (allegedly more billions than Google indexes) CUIL could not
> find anything at all and Google found 525 hits and the top two
> correctly identify me and the BBS I used to SYSOP before the  internet
> became popular. ( I used these keywords, excluding the brackets, for
> this test . . .  [ +"don wilcox"  +florida 321 ]
>
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>
> It is just too far fetched to think cuil could not find me.  The
> problem might be failure to recognize such limiters as + or - or
> quotes around phrases.  But that is far fetched also since it is
> former google engineers behind the site.  What I find more believable
> is poorly written algorithms.
>
> Will cuil ever unseat Google, Yahoo and MS Live search engines?  No.
> MS Live and Yahoo are having a hard time competing with Google let
> alone unseating it.  And they've had years of experience at it.
>
> Since cuil does not collect any data to be able to aggregate search
> data it will be extremely difficult for them to make money via
> advertising.  How long will cuil last with little or no revenue?  Or
> do you expect to pay per search? 


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