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  • Pleasurepays
    BANNED - SUPPORTING TUBES
    • Aug 2002
    • 11913

    #1

    Am I the only one that thought this was a scam??

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=xxx+porn
    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=xxx+porn+movies
    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=sex
    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=middle+east

    Anyone remember the press releases? Their selling point was that they were going to index all pages of the web (Google doesn't even though i think its passed over 1 trillion URL's sometime last year.)... as if that was a plus. I mean, there are obvious reasons Google stopped trying to do that.

    The search results for almost everything are totally nonsensical

    When i saw this and read all the press releases, i really thought it was a team of clever assholes who were trying to bait someone into investing a few hundred million or buy them out simple because they could make the claim that they were ex-Google engineers putting it together.


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    Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too.

    The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

    Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.
    Last edited by Pleasurepays; 05-17-2009, 05:44 PM.
  • HorseShit
    Too lazy to set a custom title
    • Dec 2004
    • 17513

    #2
    interesting

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    • Barefootsies
      Choice is an Illusion
      • Feb 2005
      • 42635

      #3
      Originally posted by Justin
      interesting
      Should You Email Your Members?

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      Enough Said.

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      • Agent 488
        Registered User
        • Feb 2006
        • 22511

        #4
        wont be the first company that squuezed out a few years of vc for a stupid and doomed product and wont be the last.

        Originally posted by Pleasurepays
        http://www.cuil.com/search?q=xxx+porn
        http://www.cuil.com/search?q=xxx+porn+movies
        http://www.cuil.com/search?q=sex
        http://www.cuil.com/search?q=middle+east

        Anyone remember the press releases? Their selling point was that they were going to index all pages of the web (Google doesn't even though i think its passed over 1 trillion URL's sometime last year.)... as if that was a plus. I mean, there are obvious reasons Google stopped trying to do that.

        The search results for almost everything are totally nonsensical

        When i saw this and read all the press releases, i really thought it was a team of clever assholes who were trying to bait someone into investing a few hundred million or buy them out simple because they could make the claim that they were ex-Google engineers putting it together.


        -------------------

        Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too.

        The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

        Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

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        • Iron Fist
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Dec 2006
          • 23400

          #5
          What an easy to remember name for a Search Engine!



          NOT.
          i like waffles

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          • LiveDose
            Show Yer Tits!
            • Feb 2002
            • 25792

            #6
            Originally posted by Barefootsies


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            • MattO
              The O is for Oohhh
              • Feb 2003
              • 10861

              #7
              I've blocked their spider from my server since I first saw it. Fuck em

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              • Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
                (felis madjewicus)
                • Jul 2006
                • 20368

                #8
                Originally posted by MattO
                I've blocked their spider from my server since I first saw it. Fuck em
                uhh why?

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                • rowan
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Mar 2002
                  • 17393

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Angry Jew Cat
                  uhh why?
                  Because their traffic is near worthless?...

                  Here's the past 4 days...

                  Cuil: 21 referrals

                  Google: 129063 referrals

                  This is on a site with literally millions of pages, either they are having trouble indexing it properly, or perhaps their search engine just sucks.

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                  • rowan
                    Too lazy to set a custom title
                    • Mar 2002
                    • 17393

                    #10


                    Seems some well worded press releases can give you an almost instantaneous thehun level of traffic..... but it doesn't last. I wonder what percentage of all these visitors concluded after about 30 seconds that they wouldn't bother coming back?

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                    • Sebastian Sands
                      Confirmed User
                      • Mar 2005
                      • 5223

                      #11
                      I just did some searches on there and the results were laughable at best...

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                      • HookUPcom
                        Confirmed User
                        • Sep 2008
                        • 1235

                        #12
                        hmmm... they don't seem to like us... I can't find us ranking... oh well, looks like i'm missing out on a click or 2.
                        icq: 364-320-971

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                        • PornMD
                          Mainstream Businessman
                          • Jan 2007
                          • 9291

                          #13
                          Originally posted by rowan


                          Seems some well worded press releases can give you an almost instantaneous thehun level of traffic..... but it doesn't last. I wonder what percentage of all these visitors concluded after about 30 seconds that they wouldn't bother coming back?
                          Cuil strategy: "better than Google" + "former employees of Google"
                          MegaVideo strategy: "better than YouTube" (plus of course all the other "mega" sites in that network)

                          Just say you're better than the biggest competitor and viral the PR somehow and boom, people will check out of curiosity.
                          Want to crush it in mainstream with Facebook ads? Hit me up.

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                          • Pleasurepays
                            BANNED - SUPPORTING TUBES
                            • Aug 2002
                            • 11913

                            #14
                            Originally posted by HookUPcom
                            hmmm... they don't seem to like us... I can't find us ranking... oh well, looks like i'm missing out on a click or 2.
                            that's the thing. like a year ago, they did all kinds of press releases that they were live, that they, much like the great Kanye West were mutherfuckin' geniuses and that they were going to change the search world with their innovative approach... a notion which oddly assumes that Google, yahoo and msn just don't "get it" after 10 plus years in the game as being the top 3 search engines while all others fell by the wayside. They were really hyping the fact that they were ex Google employees building something better than Google.

                            When i was reading about it, i started searching and the results made no sense at all. all this time later and they still make no sense. I think this was just a huge Silicone Valley scam to build up hype over something useless and then sell it off.


                            by the way... this is basically how that plentyoffish.com guy built his site up... he kept doing press releases interviews saying he was the biggest, the fastest growing etc etc etc... until he eventually was quite huge.

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                            • pornguy
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 62910

                              #15
                              It gives the worst search results.
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                              • seeandsee
                                Check SIG!
                                • Mar 2006
                                • 50945

                                #16
                                Cuil is such a shit
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