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The new search engine Cuil looks great. It’s created by a number of ex-Google engineers, and returns search results in kind of a more newspaper style.
It’s intriguing that it seems to search as many, or more, pages than Google already. It looks rather cute, and even has its own “add to firefox” plugin (in Firefox 3, drop down the list of search engines and at the bottom you’ll see “add ‘Cuil’” on the list.)
Did a search on my own name and found what I expected – the British ambassador to Qatar and the editor of Motor Boat Monthly – and it looks pretty clever. I note that esotechnica doesn’t find this blog, but references to it. Well, maybe they’ve still got some crawling left to do, after all.
Well, that’s the view this lunchtime. Back to work…
December 30th, 2009 at 22:43
Have you come across this search engine:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
“Goals
Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”
December 31st, 2009 at 02:08
Yes, I’ve dabbled with Wolfram, and I know Microsoft has licensed some Wolfram|Alpha datasets for improve Bing, but I’d love to know your thoughts on Wolfram|Alpha and how it performs (a) in its designated areas and (b) as a general search engine