[Search-l] Interesting Article

[Aerik Sylvan]

This was an interesting piece I saw (from the Mercury News):

*The latest search engine* with ambitions to distinguish itself from Google
and win a bit of mindshare is called Cuil <http://www.cuil.com/> (pronounced
"cool," and BTW, can any of you marketing folks explain the wisdom of
choosing a company name that needs a pronouncer?). Cuil, started by some
ex-Googlers, emerged from stealth mode this morning, and at the moment, its
only ambition is to survive a first day in which it was overwhelmed by both
traffic and lukewarm<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cuil_good_but_not_good_enough.php>-to-bad
reviews.

Among Cuil's selling points <http://www.cuil.com/info/news_press/> are an
index of 120 billion Web pages -- three times the size of Google's, it
claims -- and relevance that it says is based on the contents of a page, not
its popularity.


The size of the index is interesting, as well as "relevance ... based on the
contents, not its popularity"  ... wow, what a concept.  Pagerank was
brilliant and all, but (my soapbox again) I do not always want the most
popular (entrenched) results.


Best,

Aerik


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Dennis Kubes <kubes at apache.org> wrote:

> I found it interesting in that we recently passed 1 billion urls that we
> know about.
>
> Dennis
>
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > Dennis Kubes wrote:
> >> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
> >
> > Weird.
> >
> > 1 trillion unique web pages.  I am skeptical.  That's 166 pages per
> > person on earth.  Or, if we assume there are 1 billion people online,
> > that's 1,000 pages for every person online.  I don't know about you, but
> > I haven't written 1,000 web pages yet.
> >
> > If they are data-driven pages, that's interesting and all, but
> > "counting" pages from a data-driven site is a bit silly.  Even the blog
> > post acknowledges this, by talking about how a calendar site has,
> > theoretically, an infinite number of pages.
> >
> > --Jimbo
> >
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