I was too quick to criticise, as usual. As soon as I had finished writing my last post, Cuil search was go again.
However there does seem to be some funniness around the file types; Microsoft CAB downloads seem to be expanded and the PHP generated PNG image seems to be in some sort of encoding. So there may be some issues worth nutting out, but these are probably not serious issues.
I was tempted to return to Cuil because of this post Cuil - The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google which I feel is a little unfair. The search is cool - as long as they can keep it up - and just because it doesn’t load every single piece of information about Mashable, it doesn’t make it a bad search result… it may simply be more semantic. Why would you want to find every web presence of Mashable? If you did, wouldn’t you search for them by name?
Cuil actually does provide some very useful information along side your result set… and that extra information depends on what you search for… nothing is available in the Nexx search, but with the mashable search I got links to google sites, with a cakephp site I got links to apache sites as well as other development centric stuff which would be unrelated to a keyword search but was semantically similar to my search.
Semantics is something that is lacking in Google results and perhaps that is where Cuil hopes to carve a niche?
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