Search engine that is better than google

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Hi,
Some important info: a new search engine has been revealed: cuil.com. It searches from 120 Billion pages when you search for something. Compared with google.com, which uses only 40 billion pages to search from, triples the amount of potential info you will get. It is also faster and more accurate with its searches than google.com. Very cool!

Hitman.
 
To be frank, I have to completely disagree with you. I've been tinkering with Cuil and Google all day, and to be honest, I really come out of it disappointed.

Things of note:

- Its slow
- It just feels "buggy"
- Its inaccurate
- I don't understand where it is digging up information... Because its too far back, or just not relevant at all.

Take for example a simple search of "GTPlanet" between the two engines. Cuil manages to pull up about 84,000 hits. On the first page, you get a link to the Wiki article, but no link to the actual website. Over on Google, you get about 88,000 hits and direct links to important pieces of the website. What gives?

Dvorak tears Cuil apart in his review, and its been pretty consistent elsewhere. Even the BBC goes about not being impressed. When the Brits aren't sold, this Yank isn't either. I'll tinker with it some more, I think they have some promise in their pie, but until then I'm sticking with Google and Windows LIVE.

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EDIT:

Searched "YSSMAN" in Cuil, comes up with a bunch of really old stuff from the G4TechTV forums and a bunch of mirrored hits of a Dodge Charger Police Car I made in Forza2. Hell, there are even mirrored hits from GTP. Seriously, Cuil just feels "broken."
 
Right now, it's crap.

I went there today, performed one search and couldn't understand the results (because the server failed halfway through). I search for a URL, and it gave me some crap indexing site above the actual site I searched for!

And then, after my one search, I overloaded their little garage base PC and the website went offline for longer than I cared to retry.

And this issue has happened to everyone on The Internet.
 
I can't believe this site actually made it on the news. Right now it's buggy as hell and the results are displayed randomly. It seems like a good way to wander onto a spyware-ridden site.
 
Display of results is rubbish, and the results themselves are seemingly random.

Once again, bigger numbers doesn't mean better performance.
 
All in the first 5 pages of the results...One of the worst search engines I've ever used:

I have half a mind to close this thread, based on the potential trouble this site may cause to end users.

• It digs up lots of "Wiki-wanna-be" sites.
• It found two sites that were "Suspected Forgeries", according to Firefox 3.
• Two sites which were pure spam, completely content-free to humans.
• And three 404 pages.
• Images next to query results are rarely related to the search term, let alone from the same site.
 
Its an absolute mess, and to that end, it was down most of the day today (from what I hear). People keep promising that it will "get better" when they "get the program right," but considering that these guys came from Google, shouldn't it have been "right" from the get-go?

I can't remember what magazine was looking for benchmark questions for it (Wired?), but even they were stumped by what they were getting. I think the easy stuff is using your own name, or for that matter, "popular" websites or blogs. I've also heard of people using benchmark questions like "Who shot John Lennon?" in the engine, it coming up without much to do with the question.

EPIC FAIL Cuil... EPIC FAIL indeed!
 
Hitman
triples the amount of potential info you will get
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Right, but I don't want 3 times as many results for my search. What I want is my results accurately arranged depending on relevance to my search, which this doesn't do. 3 times more results usually means 3 times as many irrelevant sites included in the results.

To be honest, google is such a market leader now that everyone else is trying to play catch up, and I think that's part of the problem. It presents a sort of 'catch 22' dilemma - be too different and you'll fail because people won't like using you, or be too similar and nobody will see a good reason for switching.

It may look prettier than google, but when I'm searching for something I want substance.


But yeah, epic fail.
 

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