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Juguetes para Niños — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:14:16 -0000

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us drugstore — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:26:26 -0000

Jeg tror den største mangel i alle de tre øverste er, at de ikke vender tilbage til de seneste relevante indhold først.

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hhhhh — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:59:13 -0000

stop being a CLONE

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RoJo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:58:49 -0000

Fair is fair and Cuil is fairly cool and the media hoopla on the Cuil launch is well deserved and totally understandable (even if a bit harsh). After all, Cuil was built by a team of top-notch ex-Google engineers. But did you know that another new search engine -- built by a team of top-notch ex-Google users -- has surpassed Cuil in traffic this month? And with nary a lick of media love. Check out NeXplore Search (www.NeXplore.com) vs. Cuil (www.cuil.com) for the month of September using whatever website traffic comparison tool you prefer -- Google Trends, Alexa, Compete, etc. Cuil’s focus -- more algorithmic complexity. NeXplore’s focus -- a more visually engaging and productive search results page. Seems pretty clear which approach real folk prefer...

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Alan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:04:06 -0000

Nice! Good work

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Kaity G. B. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:10:05 -0000

Yahoo didn't take this down the "author" did. An example of a good idea "implemented" by a blogger looking for page ranks. A perfect example of all that's wrong w/people who don't get the internet or want to be part of anything real of any change. Another sap trying to use online culture purely in an attempt to make themselves feel relevant. I'd write more if anything that mattered was related to this site. Over all impact, I can finally nuke tech crunches rss feed. Linking here was the last laugh they have at my expense.

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xiaou — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:13:20 -0000

NO on chinese...

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Kapil — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:06:43 -0000

Cuil idea :)
you could keep it up and about somewhere.

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JP Kellog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:25:08 -0000

I'm no techhie but I use search engines a lot. And I think the biggest shortcoming in all of the top three is that
they do not return the most recent/thus relevant content first. For example, if I search google or yahoo for "used j/80" I'll get several useful links but I rarely get up to date links. The above search returned two "way" dated links in the top five results--sorry but that is lame. I realize I could used advanced options,etc--but I still have this problem. It would be nice if someone were able to figure out a way to return the most recent (by date) first. JMHO. Thanks.

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netstarman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:01:43 -0000

Does yahoo have the right to be picking a fight with a new search engine at this point when other search engines like google , live search is way better than yahoo search. That's a bad jab at a start up search engine that just might with a few clean ups and bug fixing some people will change there mind , i love a good parady but Yahoo just doesn't need to be jabbing at other people new company. Yahoo stock wouldn't be up if it wasn't being sought after before by Microsoft. I like a good start of a new search company.

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bill — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:20:59 -0000

Once again, Yahoo!, by taking this down, proven that they are run by morons.

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NoBS — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:12:21 -0000

How lame is that... there you have the greatest publicity all over the web and all over the blogs... and the best possible PR and media advertising for Yahoo and it's api - and trust me yahoo could needs some positive PR these days with the crap you buddy Jerry has been pulling - and right after all the major news outlets wrote about it you take it down.

I wonder why, did marketing give you a call? if so someone should fire those Yahoo marketing dudes... and even if they didnt give you a call, for not giving you a call to leave it up.

Publicity and advertising like this would cost you guys millions... and what do you guys do... shut it down...
I hate to say this but you guys deserve where you guys are in the search war. There you do something right, something brilliant and you shut it down right before you can cash in on millions and millions of free editorial advertising and fun positive PR..

Sorry I am just rather speechless by this ignorance...

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Shii — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:38:22 -0000

Why did you take it down? Did it "dilute the brand"? No wonder nobody uses Yahoo, they're a corporate bureaucracy.

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Sina Loghavi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:58:31 -0000

This was too fun and harmless to be pulled down. Maybe cuil was jealous that it actually workes better than theirs without millions invested.

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techdude — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:23:31 -0000

Would really like to see something new developed from Sam, great knowledge it seems!

http://blabtech.blogspot.com

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BSoD's — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:35:38 -0000

Yeah as usual I'm late, I did however get to test Cuil yesterday and wasn't impressed at all. Serveral of my search returned no results. And with my crappy gppgle PR i still returned in the top ten on google for certain searches, but on cuil no results at all. Hopefully I'll be crawled by Cuil soon, or does it really matter? lol
Guess I'll check out yahoo search a bit, been stuck in the Google trap for the last few years.
http://bsods.com

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Kevin K. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:18:48 -0000

The whole Yuil/Cuil thing is funny. The Cuil story is the number one story on thriveorfail right now, and there's another interesting one on Yuil here: http://www.thriveorfail.com...

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alex z — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:39:37 -0000

Nice one. Very clever. I guess you could do a url specific BOSS image search per result link in order to get images as well. However, this could take time so you’d need to do it in async mode. On server side I am not sure how you’d do it in Python on AppEngine and on the client side you’d run into concurrent requests from the same domain problem. It would be cool though if it was a 1-1 copy of the interface.

It would be hard to make it a complete 1-for-1 copy because I have no idea where they come up with their images. What I would like is to grab an image from the page that I’m linking to. It would be better if I was doing my own crawl for that…

I have hear that the categories will be coming in the next versions of BOSS. Sam to my knowledge BOSS does not support search suggestions.

I’m using the regular Yahoo! Search Suggest API.

BTW you should use the ClickURL (as per TOS) for the links in the results when using BOSS.

Strangely, they are the same for the searches that I am doing. I expected the redirects. This might have something to do with the changes that were recently rolled out on Yahoo! SERPs that don’t requite it.
Thanks,
Sam

It is a pity you had to pull it - no sense of humor I guess.

BTW we at Cluuz do the image and tag extraction on the fly after we get the response from BOSS. Check it out at http:www.cluuz.com .

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Rexibit — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:05:01 -0000

Lol, very nice stuff. I was wondering what this thing was about.

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MATTHEW ROSE — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:49:56 -0000

As an artist (see my site), I'd be happy to have my works illustrate whatever, but I'd also like to have a link to my site... whenever I pick up images I always credit them (in blogs).

As for yet another search engine, I think we need one that finds what we were really looking for...

Matthew Rose / Paris, France

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ederic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:48:18 -0000

Ohh, I missed it. Saw only the screenshot at Blogoscoped.

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Pranav — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:33:36 -0000

This was featured in Google News. Sadly, by the time I got here, Yuil was dead.
I had to get a sense from the comments on this site.

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SachinIsABlogSpammer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:03:51 -0000

Sachin, we don't appreciate blogspam. Please be a little more considerate next time. If you actually made Suil, please make it more obvious on your site. Thanks.

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techdude — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:37:48 -0000

Guil would be interesting... I mean with the whole layout of Cuil and the power of Google... It would probably be a success... if only companies would let things like this fly... unfortunately not.

http://blabtech.blogspot.com

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John Douglas — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:24:28 -0000

It's rather hypocritical of Cuil to issue a cease and desist when they have a policy of copyright and trademark violation. They have taken images from my site (amoungst others) and used them to illustrate other listings. Naturally I, like so many others, have had no reply to my emails.

Fair use for a search engine would be to illustrate an entry for a site with samples from that site, unfair use is to plunder the site for content to use to give their site a 'magazine' look.

I have already had complaints that my trademark logo appears next to entries for other sites, from people clicking expecting to come to my site and one site concerned who have been asked whether I have taken them over.