{"id":230,"date":"2008-07-28T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2008\/07\/how-cool-is-cuil-really\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:50:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T19:50:40","slug":"how-cool-is-cuil-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2008\/07\/how-cool-is-cuil-really\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cool Is Cuil, Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN <a title=\"Ex-Google workers launch rival search engine - Jul. 28, 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/07\/28\/technology\/cuil.ap\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">reports<\/a> that Anna Patterson &#8212; the brain behind Google&#039;s 2004 search engine upgrade &#8212; has banded together with her friends to create <a title=\"Cuil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cuil.com\">a new service<\/a> that she feels will supercede the beast with all its shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>The project, named &#034;Cuil&#034;, is backed by $33m in venture capital and opened for business this morning. Ms Patterson believes that, amongst other things, the fact that Google&#039;s look-and-feel hasn&#039;t changed significantly in ten years is not beneficial, so she&#039;s come up with a new interface and a new way of displaying results.<\/p>\n<p>Cool idea. However, upon taking the service for a spin, I immediately missed that most blessed of Google&#039;s features: the one which removes (or at least hides) similar sites from its index. As it turns out, having the biggest number of sites indexed doesn&#039;t necessarily give you the best search service when there are so many cloning\/mirroring sites out there. So far I&#039;m on page 10 for my name and I&#039;m still seeing the same random blog comment returned over and over again, recorded by Cuil&#039;s indexer from the gazillion sites that mirrored the article in question.<\/p>\n<p>So, Cuil. Brave? Yes. A good idea? Yes. Nice layout? Yes. Is it refreshing to see someone tackle the search monster head-on with a realistic attempt? Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>But is it actually useful? Maybe not. And to be honest, I enjoy the simplicity of Google&#039;s results page. Perhaps there&#039;s a good reason that it hasn&#039;t changed in ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that Anna Patterson &#8212; the brain behind Google&#039;s 2004 search engine upgrade &#8212; has banded together with her friends to create a new service that she feels will supercede the beast with all its shortcomings. The project, named &#034;Cuil&#034;, is backed by $33m in venture capital and opened for business this morning. Ms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[9,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}