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Take a look at Kosmix.com Ignoring relevance for a sec, which display of results looks better? Kosmix by a mile. I think that's what Ballmer means when he sa

by aneesh 18y ago

Take a look at Kosmix.com Ignoring relevance for a sec, which display of results looks better? Kosmix by a mile. I think that's what Ballmer means when he says he wants to move beyond 10 blue links. Amidst the aura of "FAIL", one nice thing Cuil had was that you didn't really need to scroll down to see all the results. There's room to beat Google in displaying results better, and that's what Kosmix, PG, and Ballmer are all trying to do, each in their own way. I don't think the company that beats Google will do it by "out-Googling" them.

cypress-hill 18y ago
you have to be kidding me. kosmix is so bad i won't even say its shit. it would have to locate some amount of good and like triple it before i would even call it shit. kosmix has recruiters carpet bombing all the bay area tech companies scrounguing for talent....i'm sure they work very hard from keeping potential recruits from actually looking at the site your obvious astroturf reveals you as an employee. pathetic.
prospero 18y ago
The home page linked me to http://www.kosmix.com/topic/In-N-Out http://www.kosmix.com/topic/In-N-Out as a sample search. Is that really superior? If I were in middle school, doing a research paper on In-N-Out, I could see the appeal. It seems fairly humming with information. Certainly it feels like it could fill a poster board. Mostly, it seems to be trying to anticipate my next search related to In-N-Out. Did I really mean "In-N-Out videos"? Did I mean "where's the nearest In-N-Out"? Did I mean "what does 'animal style' actually mean?" But really, if I had wanted any of those things, wouldn't I have used those as my search terms? As it stands, I find the page a little confusing; I don't know where to look amidst all that second-guessing.
- cypress-hill 18y ago
  blah, even that link is just an obvious mashup. people were doing this three years ago

by aneesh 18y ago

cypress-hill 18y ago

you have to be kidding me. kosmix is so bad i won't even say its shit. it would have to locate some amount of good and like triple it before i would even call it shit. kosmix has recruiters carpet bombing all the bay area tech companies scrounguing for talent....i'm sure they work very hard from keeping potential recruits from actually looking at the site your obvious astroturf reveals you as an employee. pathetic.

prospero 18y ago

The home page linked me to http://www.kosmix.com/topic/In-N-Out http://www.kosmix.com/topic/In-N-Out as a sample search. Is that really superior? If I were in middle school, doing a research paper on In-N-Out, I could see the appeal. It seems fairly humming with information. Certainly it feels like it could fill a poster board. Mostly, it seems to be trying to anticipate my next search related to In-N-Out. Did I really mean "In-N-Out videos"? Did I mean "where's the nearest In-N-Out"? Did I mean "what does 'animal style' actually mean?" But really, if I had wanted any of those things, wouldn't I have used those as my search terms? As it stands, I find the page a little confusing; I don't know where to look amidst all that second-guessing.

cypress-hill 18y ago
blah, even that link is just an obvious mashup. people were doing this three years ago