Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread Mike Sloane
I heard a report from a technology reporter on CBS radio yesterday - he was not at all impressed. Apparently the GUI is nice, but the rank order is something of a mystery. Mike Tom Piwowar wrote: Has anyone tried the Google-killer site cuil (cuil.com)? All I get is No results because of

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread Ellen Harris
The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none of it. While Google finds TONS of references. Not Cuil. Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because when there are no results, it just says can't find anything I tried

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread gerald
one of my biggest complaints with google is that they frequently do not produce the website of the searched name. cuil does not seem to do any better. At 11:04 AM 7/29/2008, you wrote: The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread Paula Minor
The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none of it. While Google finds TONS of references. Not Cuil. I didn't care for it's appearance at all but I do have to say that in searching for my name it did as well as Google.

[CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
Has anyone tried the Google-killer site cuil (cuil.com)? All I get is No results because of high load... Looks like something MS should snap up and give up on unwilling Yahoo. * ** List info, subscription management, list

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread mike
I've been searching fine. Mike On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried the Google-killer site cuil (cuil.com)? All I get is No results because of high load... Looks like something MS should snap up and give up on unwilling Yahoo.

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread Bill
I just tried and there are too busy for me, too. On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:47 PM, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been searching fine. Mike On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried the Google-killer site cuil (cuil.com)? All I get is No

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Dunford
It seems to depend on what you search for. I can search for X and get results, then search for Y and get load too high. Then I can repeat that as many times as I want and get the same results. I have a sneaky suspicion that load too high actually means I didn't find anything. I just tried and

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread Admiral Harris
No, because when there are no results, it just says can't find anything Not so Cuil to me. - Original Message - From: Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:29 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool It seems to depend

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
No, because when there are no results, it just says can't find anything I tried searching for something else and got results. But as I pressed the next screen button I found that most of the results I saw on page 1 were also repeated on pages 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. I also don't like the 3-column