Of interest to some folks on this list, I imagine, is the new search engine www.cuil.com (pronounced Cool, why do people come up with such strange names? Like "wiki"...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/technology/28cool.html
Pretty nifty interface, and they say they have the largest index of web pages (120 billion) in the search industry.
~Nathan
On 7/29/08, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty nifty interface, and they say they have the largest index of web pages (120 billion) in the search industry.
*ONLY* 120 billion? According to Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html their index has reached 1 trillion unique URLs.
--Takashi
see: http://search.wikia.com/blog/2008/07/28/whats-the-other-75-percent-blogs/for more info on the size of indexes and the web
regards
mark
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Takashi OTA < supertakot+foundation-l@gmail.com supertakot%2Bfoundation-l@gmail.com>wrote:
On 7/29/08, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty nifty interface, and they say they have the largest index of web pages (120 billion) in the search industry.
*ONLY* 120 billion? According to Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html their index has reached 1 trillion unique URLs.
--Takashi
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it's not good till now with arabic. the results for wikipedia: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8...http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7 the results for wikimedia: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8...http://www.cuil.com/search?q=%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7 it find nothing for wikimedia :-(
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Mark (Markie) newsmarkie@googlemail.comwrote:
see:
http://search.wikia.com/blog/2008/07/28/whats-the-other-75-percent-blogs/for more info on the size of indexes and the web
regards
mark
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Takashi OTA < supertakot+foundation-l@gmail.com supertakot%2Bfoundation-l@gmail.com < supertakot%2Bfoundation-l@gmail.comsupertakot%252Bfoundation-l@gmail.com
wrote:
On 7/29/08, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Pretty nifty interface, and they say they have the largest index of
web
pages (120 billion) in the search industry.
*ONLY* 120 billion? According to Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html their index has reached 1 trillion unique URLs.
--Takashi
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Mark (Markie) newsmarkie@googlemail.com wrote:
see: http://search.wikia.com/blog/2008/07/28/whats-the-other-75-percent-blogs/for more info on the size of indexes and the web
Or, umm, lack of info... "let's just make up a number and assume (probably incorrectly) that Google's index is 250 billion web pages."
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