On Cuil, the new relevancy search engine (a rant)
Cuil, the new search engine looking for relevancy rather than popularity has seen the light of day today. Developed by former Google employees,it claims to be able to crawl through 120 billion pages (that is 3x more than Google and 10x more than Microsoft’s Live search). But what does it actually do and how does it perform?
Well I had had the chance to play around with it today, and I must say I am not overly impressed. Aside from the high server load and time-outs I managed to find either one of the two things:
- Nothing, or
- Anything but what I was after
Please read on to read more about my thoughts and usability concerns about Cuil…
Why I hate Neon Genesis Evangelion
* please note that this post does contain harsh language and may - WILL - offend fans of the series *
Right, so I guess most of you know Neon Genesis Evangelion (if not, read the Wiki page). Basically, a very good friend of mine from the good old uni days warmly recommended me that anime. And in fairness, when it started I did quite enjoy it. The drawing style was very well executed, the overall feel of being in future Japan fighting against ‘Angels’ looked very well and the soundtrack was this nice mix of classic and electro-pop as many animes have it.
So why did you not like it, Alex?
We are live
Thought I’d let you guys know that WWIT.co.uk is live. I am fairly happy with the template and the plugins (many thanks to those who helped). I will begin posting here tomorrow I guess. For now I wish you guys all the best, take it easy, and expect a rant soon-ish 
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...my Flash Development, Information Architecture & Web Design Blog. Here you will find best practice suggestions, case studies and code snippets about anything related to Web 2.0, mashups and usability and accessibility testing. And rants.
