Cuil

[Tyeforce]

http://www.cuil.com/

My new homepage and default search engine. I think I've fallen in love. =3

And it's pronounced "cool", btw. So you can say "Cuil it!" XD

Here's why it's so much better than Google:

It searches by relevance, rather than through popularity and gathered private information. =p Plus, Cuil has one hundred twenty seven billion pages indexed total, whereas Google has only about two billion. Cuil searches on relevance because often, things in Google get ignored by Google's spider just because they're not popular, regardless of whether or not they actually offer better quality information.

Cuil also doesn't track your movements everywhere you go, using the information to support their ads. In fact, they even give you an option to disable ads. Based on your search, different information will show up on the right side of the search page, often a timeline (one of their coolest features), a map showing where the thing you searched for is, and/or a video relating to it.

Google may have more features, but most of its features aren't related to their search engine any longer, they're more aimed at adding new places to cram their advertisements into and study more about the best places to put ads to generate more revenue from it. Google really isn't a search engine anymore, it's an advertisement firm, with a search engine. When you search, you get results first from Google's advertisers, second from popularity, third from the information they collect from you (based on your past ad clicks, Gmail account, search habits, and so on), and lastly from what you actually searched for.

I honestly can't blame them for concentrating on advertising, though, seeing as they pull in a few billion dollars from advertisements alone each quarter. Also, keep an eye out for the Google Maps Street View ads, coming soon. The technology they plan to use for those ads is actually pretty cool.

http://www.cuil.com/info/
http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/google_bans_thirty_thousand_from_adwords/
http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q1_google_earnings.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/google_explores_street_view_ads/

 

[Yokie]

Oh dang it has not the language I want... Oh well it could be good anyways.

 

[Tyeforce]

Oh dang it has not the language I want... Oh well it could be good anyways.

It's soooo much better than Google. Just wait for my...er...someone intelligent to log on and explain why it's so much better. =3


<small>Damn you people who have to complain about everything I post. D:<</small>

 

[//RUN.exe]

Oh dang it has not the language I want... Oh well it could be good anyways.

It's soooo much better than Google. Just wait for my...er...someone intelligent to log on and explain why it's so much better. =3


<small>Damn you people who have to complain about everything I post. D:<</small>

oh lawdy inb4 *censored.2.0*storm

 

[Sporge27]

I fail to see what makes it better...

 

[Yokie]

I fail to see what makes it better...

Same.

 

[Tyeforce]

I fail to see what makes it better...

I don't know all the technical facts, but...someone else does, and hopefully he'll post in here later.


<small>This is really pissing me off... D:<</small>

 

[easpa]

I fail to see what makes it better...

Same.

This. ^

Sorry, Tye. :/

 

[Rawburt]

Well, there's apparently an explanation, so let's wait for it. Who knows it might be good.

 

[Trent the Paladin]

Is this one of those stupid search engines designed to use less lights or something like that?

@Tye: Suck it up.

 

[Rockman!]

Eww.

 

[Gnome]

http://www.oranjoogle.com/ > That.

And google has more features.

 

[Shiny Star]

I still prefer google though.

 

[Shadow Jolteon]

It searches by relevance, rather than through popularity and gathered private information. =p Plus, Cuil has one hundred twenty seven billion pages indexed total, whereas Google has only about two billion. Cuil searches on relevance because often, things in Google get ignored by Google's spider just because they're not popular, regardless of whether or not they actually offer better quality information.

Cuil also doesn't track your movements everywhere you go, using the information to support their ads. In fact, they even give you an option to disable ads. Based on your search, different information will show up on the right side of the search page, often a timeline (one of their coolest features), a map showing where the thing you searched for is, and/or a video relating to it.

Google may have more features, but most of its features aren't related to their search engine any longer, they're more aimed at adding new places to cram their advertisements into and study more about the best places to put ads to generate more revenue from it. Google really isn't a search engine anymore, it's an advertisement firm, with a search engine. When you search, you get results first from Google's advertisers, second from popularity, third from the information they collect from you (based on your past ad clicks, Gmail account, search habits, and so on), and lastly from what you actually searched for.

I honestly can't blame them for concentrating on advertising, though, seeing as they pull in a few billion dollars from advertisements alone each quarter. Also, keep an eye out for the Google Maps Street View ads, coming soon. The technology they plan to use for those ads is actually pretty cool.

http://www.cuil.com/info/
http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/google_bans_thirty_thousand_from_adwords/
http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q1_google_earnings.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/google_explores_street_view_ads/

 

[Deleted User]

Thought that said cult at first. Are you the leader of a cult, Tyeforce?

 

[Mr. L]

it's much worse than google imo.

 

[Rawburt]

It searches by relevance, rather than through popularity and gathered private information. =p Plus, Cuil has one hundred twenty seven billion pages indexed total, whereas Google has only about two billion. Cuil searches on relevance because often, things in Google get ignored by Google's spider just because they're not popular, regardless of whether or not they actually offer better quality information.

Cuil also doesn't track your movements everywhere you go, using the information to support their ads. In fact, they even give you an option to disable ads. Based on your search, different information will show up on the right side of the search page, often a timeline (one of their coolest features), a map showing where the thing you searched for is, and/or a video relating to it.

Google may have more features, but most of its features aren't related to their search engine any longer, they're more aimed at adding new places to cram their advertisements into and study more about the best places to put ads to generate more revenue from it. Google really isn't a search engine anymore, it's an advertisement firm, with a search engine. When you search, you get results first from Google's advertisers, second from popularity, third from the information they collect from you (based on your past ad clicks, Gmail account, search habits, and so on), and lastly from what you actually searched for.

I honestly can't blame them for concentrating on advertising, though, seeing as they pull in a few billion dollars from advertisements alone each quarter. Also, keep an eye out for the Google Maps Street View ads, coming soon. The technology they plan to use for those ads is actually pretty cool.

http://www.cuil.com/info/
http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/google_bans_thirty_thousand_from_adwords/
http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q1_google_earnings.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/google_explores_street_view_ads/

Well, it does sound better as a search engine, not that I really had any problems with Google, anyway nice find.

 

[Zex]

I searched google on it.

 

[Numner]

It searches by relevance, rather than through popularity and gathered private information. =p Plus, Cuil has one hundred twenty seven billion pages indexed total, whereas Google has only about two billion. Cuil searches on relevance because often, things in Google get ignored by Google's spider just because they're not popular, regardless of whether or not they actually offer better quality information.

Cuil also doesn't track your movements everywhere you go, using the information to support their ads. In fact, they even give you an option to disable ads. Based on your search, different information will show up on the right side of the search page, often a timeline (one of their coolest features), a map showing where the thing you searched for is, and/or a video relating to it.

Google may have more features, but most of its features aren't related to their search engine any longer, they're more aimed at adding new places to cram their advertisements into and study more about the best places to put ads to generate more revenue from it. Google really isn't a search engine anymore, it's an advertisement firm, with a search engine. When you search, you get results first from Google's advertisers, second from popularity, third from the information they collect from you (based on your past ad clicks, Gmail account, search habits, and so on), and lastly from what you actually searched for.

I honestly can't blame them for concentrating on advertising, though, seeing as they pull in a few billion dollars from advertisements alone each quarter. Also, keep an eye out for the Google Maps Street View ads, coming soon. The technology they plan to use for those ads is actually pretty cool.

http://www.cuil.com/info/
http://www.cuil.com/info/our_philosophy/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/15/google_bans_thirty_thousand_from_adwords/
http://investor.google.com/releases/2009Q1_google_earnings.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/google_explores_street_view_ads/

I applaud you Andrew.

You and your walls of text.

 

[Sporge27]

Search by relevance as opposed to popularity? How exactly do they get the program to do this?

Aside from pages containing the words specified and the amount that it is, I cannot see a very simple way to judge relevance. Popularity is actually a decent indication of it because it shows what most people think of given the terms you entered, it isn't perfect but sorting by relevance just seems so vague and more based on the opinion of the site than of actual people.