Cuil由Tom Costello(现任CEO)还有两位前google员工Anna Patterson and Russell Powe共同创建。
于本月28日上线的Cuil,确实很酷,黑色底,并延续了google刚出道时的简洁。但不久,就因人数过多,导致页面提示无法返回搜索结果。今天,我又上去看,恢复正常了。
虽然Cuil官方说Cuil包含页面是google3倍,微软10倍。主要以软件算法和爬虫获取相关页面,相比google的以硬件为主更省钱。以下从官方网页摘录:
Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine.
Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.
"Cuil's goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet - not just part of it - and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results."
What does the name Cuil mean?
Tom Costello, our founder and CEO, comes from Ireland, a country with a rich mythology around the quest for wisdom. Cuil is the Gaelic word for both knowledge and hazel, and features prominently in ancient legend. One famous story tells of a salmon that ate nine hazelnuts that had fallen into the Fountain of Wisdom and thereby gained all the knowledge in the world. Whoever ate the salmon would acquire this knowledge.
A famous poet fished for many years on the River Boyne hoping to catch the Salmon of Knowledge. When he finally caught it, he gave it to his young apprentice Finn McCuil to prepare, warning him not to eat any. As Finn cooked the salmon he burnt his thumb and instinctively sucked it to ease the pain. And so it was Finn and not the poet who gained all the wisdom of the world. Finn went on to become one of the great heroes of Irish folklore. Any time he needed to know the answer to a question, he sucked his thumb.
As a child Tom poached salmon from the same spot on the Boyne where it is said the Salmon of Knowledge was caught.
我试过之后,显然没有几年前第一次用google的时候来的震撼!可能互联网在成长,人的欲望在增长,搜索引擎也要长大吧。
与google查询结果相比,差距很大,希望改进,毕竟敢和google叫板,本身就很了不起。
搜索六月,居然搜不到,呵呵。。。。。
当然,它也有自己特色,以下是分页显示的搜索google的结果:
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