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Did you see Paul Buchheit's comment? “Maybe Cuil isn’t supposed to be good. They must know that the results are bad, but they launched anyway. Maybe they aren’
by richcollins 18y ago
Did you see Paul Buchheit's comment?
“Maybe Cuil isn’t supposed to be good. They must know that the results are bad, but they launched anyway. Maybe they aren’t trying to build a full search engine, but just want to demo their crawling+indexing technology with the expectation that someone will buy the company and plug in better ranking.
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—Where “someone” = MSFT, who has already shown that they are willing to pay a lot for non-functional search engines."