Comments on: OCRegister, newspapers, etc. missing from Cuil search

By: lwps

lwps — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:40:58 +0000

…Always the last to find out, are you not?

By: Jim Williams

Jim Williams — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:08:36 +0000

I went there last night. Typed in my job description and nothing. Clicked on the “about us” page and it was blank. Overall I would say my experience… on a scale of poor to magnificent… I would rate as a nothing.

I just hope there’s another story about it a year or so to remind me to try again.

By: IT Research Assistant

IT Research Assistant — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:48:18 +0000

I just accessed the site again this afternoon. Typed “The Orange County Register” and came up with eleven results. No problems….I like the new search engine. Google has too many ads!

By: GT

GT — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:42:52 +0000

Not so “cuil”…

We’ll be back soon…

Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.

Thanks for your patience.

………………………………………

Sorry, an error occurred.

Please try your search again. If the problem persists, please be assured that our team is working quickly to resolve the issue.

By: oclifeis

oclifeis — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:19:30 +0000

I am seriously dissapointed with the searches I did.

I have never seen so many spam websites listed as a search result in Google, but that is probably because Google does not list them as the top results but buries them under more relevant content.

That is the tip of the iceberg. We have been having fun with this all day, and it is a major letdown.

The developers should have followed the business plans of their former employeer, and released this as a beta for the next three years until the bugs are worked out…

“Apu”, please comment intelligently, it is helpful if you understand the concepts and the content contained in an article before you touch hand to keyboard to respond…

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:17:45 +0000

Try live.com for search. Its much better than Google or Yahoo.

By: me

me — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:15:07 +0000

I found it. Just type in the word “rag”

By: Michael Doss

Michael Doss — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:01:49 +0000

They’re having huge load issues this morning – all sorts of people are getting weird errors. I’m much more disappointed with the “good” searches i got, though – no where near the relevancy of Google or Yahoo on any of a dozen searches I did.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:59:27 +0000

I just typed OC Register and it came up first time. Then I tried OC Register and it came up. No Problems.

By: Dina

Dina — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:51:30 +0000

the network is overloaded

By: Apu

Apu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:31 +0000

They weren’t searching in India, that’s why!

By: oc reader

oc reader — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:58:17 +0000

there is no harm if OC Register is not included in CUIL search
most of the articles in OCR are junk and the reporters are sticking to OCR, as they cannot get any other jobs

By: Irvine Reader

Irvine Reader — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:07:37 +0000

I tried various searches, too, and wasn’t impressed. Some of the links were old and outdated and others just didn’t fit the search very well. In some instances, there were no results when I knew there should be.

I’ll stick with Google.

By: SeekingAlfalfa

SeekingAlfalfa — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:57:15 +0000

Maybe they know something you don’t