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The next "Google killer" won't be labeled as such until it's already "killed Google" (whatever that means). It'll sneak up on the pundits by challenging assump
by jbyers 18y ago
The next "Google killer" won't be labeled as such until it's already "killed Google" (whatever that means). It'll sneak up on the pundits by challenging assumptions so deeply seated they completely ignore it.
As for Cuil, I hope they build themselves into a great search engine. They're going to do that by returning super-relevant results, not touting a big index. One of my first searches was a real question I asked Google lately, "best time to visit Russia" (a rare full-phrase query for me). On Google, great results. On Cuil, not even close, i.e. missed that "Russia" is the primary subject of the query, not "best time to visit".
- Hexstream 18y agoIf the "more data beats better algorithms" principal is to be believed, a big index is a requirement to have a shot at Google.
- jbyers 18y agoI'm happy for their index to be enormous, but to proclaim it's "bigger than Google's" at launch entirely misses the point of search: finding things. First find things. Then tell me your haystack is way bigger than the next guy's.
- aneesh 18y agoI think more data about each page would be more helpful than simply more pages. That's what Google themselves did. Instead of searching merely the text of pages, they also considered more data - namely, which pages link to a given page.
- iamelgringo 18y agoIt's not the size of the index, it's how you use it.
- stcredzero 18y agoprinciple
- Hexstream 18y agoGoddamnit. People say "principal" instead of "principle" so ridiculously often that I came to think it was the right spelling in english. Thank you.
- stcredzero 18y agoThe principal of your school is your princely pal. Hopefully he has principles.