Comments on: Google Alternative?

By: Angelos

Angelos — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:06:42 +0000

I could say the same as Incertus.

I looked for myself and a couple other things which knew what the results should be, and they weren’t cloe.

Oh well, I’ll give it a few weeks and try again.

By: Incertus

Incertus — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:35:20 +0000

I fooled around with Cuil yesterday for a few minutes–didn’t have any trouble accessing the site, but I did have problems accessing any meaningful search results. That’s the real problem they’re having right now. I have 3 sites linked to my personal name and my internet pseudonym, and cuil came up with exactly zero of them when I did a search for my name. It did, however, come up with a press release from ten years ago from my undergraduate university.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:31:28 +0000

Well, sucks to hear that.

To my knowledge, Google doesn’t own WordPress, just Blogger.

It’ll be hard to rip the grip from Google, though. Once people are familiar with something, it’s tough to get them to move to something else.

By: prof bw

prof bw — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:26:41 +0000

nope. and its google’s fault (for real). which is why your timing is . . . well. ‘nough said. Thanks for the info on the new engine hopefully wordpress will start using them. (and don’t tell me if google owns wordpress ok. I’m in denial.)

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:27:03 +0000

Oh my, Prof BW. I hope everything is ok.

By: prof bw

prof bw — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:18:00 +0000

oh honey, you have no idea how much irony there is in your linking to that post today . . . it almost makes me wanna cry.

let’s hope those academics make good.