Cuil:
1. The tabs at the top are a clear, almost wondrous improvement. Type in the “LSE” and it will put up tabs for “London School of Economics”, “London Stock Exchange” and “Luxembourg Stock Exchange”, allowing the searcher to easily filter out conflated search results. Impressive.
2. The colour scheme. Because who hasn’t gotten bored of Google’s plain white, after a decade now? But poq suspects black and blue will get old fast.
3. Really? It has more pages than Google?
1. It doesn’t store personal information, so it doesn’t know what people are looking for, and so it doesn’t produce good results. No PageRank, no love.
2. It doesn’t seem to have the same incestuous relationship with Wikipedia. Almost nothing brings up Wikipedia, which is almost always what actually answers the question.
3. The pictures take ages to load, and aren’t necessarily at all helpful.
Which is the fairest engine of them all?
More important, Google responded with this claim: the Web is even bigger than poq said it was before when poq said it was even bigger than you thought it was. Yes, at this point it is official:
“for example, web calendars may have a “next day” link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a “new” page.”
The Web is infinite. And because information is contained on every web page, even ones which are essentially a random pile of crap, that means that WE HAVE CREATED INFINITE INFORMATION, which poq believes is an impressive, almost alchemical achievement for mankind, and we deserve a pat on the back.
