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 ] > snip > > 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? --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------