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Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine

nytimes.com — Former Google employees are unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google’s and hope will give its users more relevant results.

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- ih8mondays
Tried out cuil.com just now. It's like your "normal" search engine but the search results are presented in layout more suited for those with ADHD.
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- DarkNemesis618
@ih8mondays yeah, it doesn't seem to be too bad, but I doubt it will dethrone Google...if that's even possible anymore....
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- Maing
i've tried a query in Italian and the results are inaccurate.
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- ih8mondays
Aw, shoot. Not even 1 hour on reddit and their site is now down.
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- DarkNemesis618
@ih8mondays Rule #1 for search engines...make sure you have good hosting...and I mean REALLY good hosting
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- ih8mondays
@DarkNemesis618 LOL. Looks like it's back up now. They're probably hosted on Slicehost or something.
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