Another rival to SKA

[PRC1964]

http://www.cuil.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7528503.stm

Amazingly aTw's attempt seems to work better. They have a much nicer look and feel though.

[NickFitz]

Hmm...

"Instead of just looking at the number and quality of links to and from a webpage as Google's technology does..."

It's funny how technology journalists still seem to think Google uses nothing but PageRank. They don't reveal much about their techniques, but a well-known Googler has mentioned that they use over a hundred different techniques in their scoring algorithms, of which PageRank is just one (and not necessarily the most important nowadays).

[PRC1964]

Hmm...

"Instead of just looking at the number and quality of links to and from a webpage as Google's technology does..."

It's funny how technology journalists still seem to think Google uses nothing but PageRank. They don't reveal much about their techniques, but a well-known Googler has mentioned that they use over a hundred different techniques in their scoring algorithms, of which PageRank is just one (and not necessarily the most important nowadays).

The press have just got over excited because:

1) It's the silly season.
2) There are ex-Google employees involved.

The tech journalists simply print whatever appeared in the press release, they wouldn't know an algorithm if it spilled their drink at El Vinos.