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impressive the day the site is starts there is a wiki artical kind like free ad?68.93.83.145 (talk) 06:56, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
very cuil ! --125.60.248.139 (talk) 11:01, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Could probably do with some copying from the privacy statement and 'about us' page. Good start for the first day.--4drammelech (talk) 13:57, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Or could it work... It seems the Search is working, but the results are not shown. It lacks one of Google strengths: simplicity 200.70.18.2 (talk) 14:53, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
We are seeing a swastika image next to a clients website. Totally unrelated (B2B) content. What a mess. Way to waste $5 million worth of PR!
Is anyone else having problems searching on Cuil? We keep getting "We didn't find any results for xxxxxxx". Multiple blogs are also blogging about issues related to not finding results or irrelevant results. Csyd (talk) 15:32, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I.. think that everybody is too harsh on it at launch. Google wasn't perfect at launch -- still isn't even perfect now. Truth be told, Cuil isn't "bound to fail" at the same time isn't "bound to succeed" now, in six months, lets see where it is, at the same time I encourage any anyone who is like me and looking for something new to check it out. obviously they're a startup company, they are on a budget, probably have a limited network, and times are and will be rough. Intranick (talk) 16:41, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
It would be easier to forgive Cuil, if the site wasn't months old (it had a "secret" launch a while back) and funded with $33 million dollars. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.219.47.196 (talk) 17:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
well.. if i was making something of that magnitude I would also launch it secretly to make sure everything was working right. no harm ,no foul. its a good way to get the indexers up and running and test things. Also, I think it should go mentioned that this is her second attempt at a search engine, perhaps just a method to get more money out of Google. that 33 million you mentioned, I believe was directly from google buying her last attempt. What will google do this time? i dont necessarily want to see cuil to be the victor over google, but google has at times, lost their "dont be evil" value. be nice to see some healthy competition whom can encourage google to improve. Intranick (talk) 17:50, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I did a CUIL search for Fox News and it continually posted a picture of Rush Limbaugh beside the Fox News link. Limbaugh has nothing to do with Fox News and I don't much care for his schtick. But I do like Fox News. I fear CUIL is in cahoots with the political left and if that's the case, at least half of their potential users will find out quick and continue to use the more fair and balanced Google.tradamericaTradamerca (talk) 01:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Look at the categories in the right bar, in this search for example: http://www.cuill.com/search?q=benjamin&sl=long
It seems that it fetch categories and items in these categories from Wikipedia.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.74.120.200 (talk) 14:27, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey guys. Take it over to Wikipedia:GFDL_Compliance if you suspect it's an issue. I did some quick searching to see if article categories matched up to the categories they show and didn't find frequent pairings. Still, might be worth looking into. --208.70.245.209 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 19:43, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Unfortunately, it cannot find this article if you search for "cuil" and "wikipedia" —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:(({1))}|(({1))}]] ([[User talk:(({1))}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/(({1))}|contribs]])
It's only returning one page of searches. Despite finding 11,000 results for one search, when I click on page two, it craps out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.130.51.193 (talk) 16:27, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
The current template is used for (or rather, it should be used for, and would be used for if not for User:Yellowdesk who, without consensus, made the usage of that template only for highly-edited pages and has single-handedly enforced this by removing the template from throughout Wikipedia) current events, not just new software. Template:inuse might be better here. Althepal (talk) 17:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
According to my Gaelic Dictonary (ISBN 0-08-025712-7), the Gaelic word cùil: means cool or (in the plural) corner, recess, nook or niche. Knowledge can be translated as eòlas, aithne, tuigse, fios, fiosrachd, fòghlum, ionnsachadh, soilleireachd, fiosrachadh, or tùr. Hazel is translated as calltunn. I therefore cannot substantiate the claim that "Cuil [is] from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel." Bovlb (talk) 17:50, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Interesting enough, reading that, I looked into it a bit farther. according to Webster's Online Dictionary it also means niche, which interestingly enough.. arn't they trying to be a niche search engine, or however you would say it? Intranick (talk) 00:13, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Gaelic etymologies can be skeinish. There is nothing untowards about citing all the sources in a wholly neutral, uncritical way. Gwen Gale (talk) 00:44, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Meanwhile I've looked in four different Gaelic dictionaries and have found not a hint that cuil means knowledge or hazel. Looks to me like they muddled something in some take on the tale of Finn McCuill, along with the character's name, with the wholly separate word cuil and its Gaelic meanings. That, however, is my original research. Gwen Gale (talk) 01:41, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
(Deindent). I understand the point that there are more overlaps between Irish and Scottish than not. I possibly overstated the difference to make it clear that there was some confusion in this case. As noted, I have added a source for modern Irish usage and can provide other book cites as neccesary. As stated, the only definition for cuil in modern usage is "bug", "insect" or "fly". (Where the word is in the nominative) See focail.ie.
The other definitions that were previously given in the article were for "cúil", which is a different word, and not based on the spelling that the company website itself uses. (Which doesn't use a fada anywhere). What the company website does speak of is the salmon of knowledge story. The text focuses on the overlap between hazel, hazelnuts, salmon and their association with knowledge in certain folkloric stories. In modern orthography, hazel translates to "coll" (again see focal.ie). The genitive of "coll" is "coill". As in "cnó coill" or "hazelnuts". At one point it may be that this genitive was spelled "cuil". It certainly would be pronouced the same as "coill" (both sounding like "quill"). It may be that in ancient Irish spelling (and in the original Fiannaíocht texts) cuil was the spelling used. But I can find no sources supporting that. Guliolopez (talk) 18:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Almost certainly not reliable sources, but here are a couple of blog posts that discuss the topic.[3], [4] Bovlb (talk) 20:22, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Not that it really matters, but this discussion has made a recent posting on Language Log [5] Yngvarr (t) (c) 12:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
I have studied both Old and Modern Irish and it is perfectly clear to me that the claimed etymology is based on the word coll 'hazel; knowledge' and its declined form cuill. Irish is a messy language and it's easy to get things wrong, especially when you're a businessman more interested in a good corporate name than the details of Celtic morphology. I think the sentence "Independent modern dictionary sources list the Irish word cuil as meaning fly or insect" should be deleted as irrelevant and replaced with something like "The Irish word in question is actually coll (genetive cuill)." Languagehat (talk) 12:40, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
[6] states that "A famous poet fished for many years on the River Boyne ... any time he needed to know the answer to a question, he sucked his thumb." This is clearly a reference to the Fionn mac Cumhaill, although they chose a different spelling as there are many spellings for this name in use. I think that it makes sense that we should link to the article for Fionn mac Cumhaill even if it has the Cuil spelling. Soap Talk/Contributions 00:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Strange that a company which prides itself in finding information, put out what seems to be mis-information as far as I can find. Cúil the closest word I can find means rear or back http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary, in sporting terms it means goal. None of which tally with what was put in the press. Being an Irish speaker myself I was intrigued by the idea when I first heard it. As I assumed it was related to the Fionn MacCumhaill and the salmon of knowledge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fionn_MacCumhaill so it is some what ironic I think that an information provider failed to provide the correct information. Seoirseofinn (talk) 09:34, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Starting with the Verifiable reference: http://www.cuil.com/info/faqs/#faq7
7. You have images beside your results. How do you pick which pictures to use? We know from our research that people can make better and quicker decisions about relevance and quality when they can see an image from the website. We do our best to take images from Web pages that accurately reflect the content of the website. Many websites are full of images, so we use advanced algorithms to determine the best image to show the user.
The information needing to be added:
Cuil takes imasges from sites and uses them to illustrate entries for other sites without the copyright holders permission. Fair Use for a search engine would allow them to use text, a photo or make a screenshot from a website to illustrate that website entries. To use images etc to add to other entries is effectively using those images as decoration and is thus blatant copyright violation.
As this is a stated policy by cuil to do this I think there should be a section on this. It is very important in that we have here a start-up who is trying to establish a principle of non-recognition of copyright (ie rather than recognising copyright and correcting infringements, it will only recognise copyright if you jump through hoops to complain).
There is also the misuse of trademarks were logos of companies appear alongside entries for their competitors.
My Prejudice: Images from my site have been used to illustrate entries for dozens of other, sometimes totally unrelated, sites. As I am incensed by this, I will not modify the entry but leave it to other more impartial wikipedians to think about.
regards
--82.70.108.83 (talk) 11:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I too have contacted Cuil to complain that my IP is being used to advertise other peoples' websites. I expect fair payment if my work is used commercially, so I've given them the option of removing my images or paying me. D-d-d-d-dave (talk) 12:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Apps/Cuil-Search-Engine-Triggers-Image-Concerns/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.108.83 (talk) 11:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
I, too, found the search results generally corrupted by irrelevant imagery, where either my images were attached to other's sites or vice versa. Clearly they are creating an image thumbnail cache lacking an essential element: a record of the original source site. On raising this with the site's staff, I was at first given a dismissive response, which as I persisted became progressively less helpful. Nor has image relevance improved in the months since. Whether by sleight-of-hand or plain incompetence, its completely unsatisfactory as a search tool as it comprehensively misrepresents the content of genuine sites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.79.27.103 (talk) 19:53, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
A agree that the site is slow and that many of the results don't show up. But it is the second day of their launch and their still trying to work the kinks out of the system. It was mentioned before that no search engine is perfect. But we should give it a chance. I am sure that they will never take over Google, but it would be nice to have another alternative engine to search on. The site itself looks very "cool" to me, but i have to say that the whole column's layout thing is not working for me. They should realy consider changing the layout or at least have an alternative layout for people that don't like it. One thing that i realy do like is the tabs. They are not always relevent but i'm sure when they start fine tuning the search engine everything will slowly fall into place. Mariam-t (talk) 13:57, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
This article includes some interesting details on their platform and algorithm, though I'm not sure how to rewrite it. http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20080728/tc_zd/230237 --Hypertext (talk) 14:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
I did a vanity search on my name, hoping that I'd be directed to my large personal website (.uk domain) that gets around 4000 hits a day. My name is relatively uncommon, though there is an American football player who shares it, and a member of a long-defunct minor American rock band. It concentrated on them.
Finally, on page 27 of the search, it came up with one of the internal pages of my website. It missed the fact that my name appears three times on the index page. Unfortunately Cuil added a photograph that is nothing to do with me, does not appear on my website, and is in fact a photograph of something I'd rather not be associated with.
Is it America-focussed? Has it crawled the entire Web yet? 84.92.228.21 (talk) 14:05, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
"When you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period."
That does not mean "Unlike other search engines,[3] Cuil's privacy policy states that it does not store records of users’ search activity or IP addresses.[4]" - as the article states. It simply means "When you search with Cuil, we *do* collect *non-personally* identifiable information"
This articles largely lacks on neutrality. It is explicit the will of the autor to express his own opinion instead of simply dissertate about the subject in question. In the section Launch criticism it is evident that the autor wish to denigrate the object being presented. Fox example, when one says: receiving negative reactions one is suposed to present more than just one example/citation because of a basic premise of the plural being emphasised. This is not the case in this article, showing a clear attempt to estabilish a non-neutral POV.
It is evident even in the discussion page, turned into a computation forum, that the Wikipedia's enrichment is secondary here.
I suggest this section to be rewritten as a whole to fit in the Wikipedia's philosophies. Gustavocc (talk) 18:22, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Can the neutrality tag on the article please be justified here, as I'm a bit confused as to the problem. If it's to do with removals can diffs be provided. Thanks. Verbal chat
I've restored the sourced (CNET) explanation by the company of "what went wrong" the first day. If it isn't removed again I'll take off the NPoV tag within about a day. Gwen Gale (talk) 13:40, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a continuous striving here to put a very positive spin, on what is arguably the worst launch of a website, ever!!! There is ample proof on the internet. Just Google it!! This is unequivocally a launch disaster - this is a fact. The section title was originally "Launch fiasco", which is apt, as almost every blogger and journalist on the internet would agree. But, it seems someone on Cuil's payroll is trying to dilute the language in favour of Cuil.
Instead of altering and skewing Wikipedia facts, Cuil should concentrate its efforts on making their stuff work.
The sourced content is only for citation purposes. You cannot water down the article, and say that "people will go to the source and see for themselves.". Thanks, Gwen.
Sorry if my comments caused offence. I shall explain.
The phrase "received negative reactions" has now been changed to "received critically by some" by ZimZalaBim. What kind of ambiguous comment is that? Almost everything in the world receives criticism by "some" people. The world's best products receive "some" criticism. The aforementioned alteration has made the entire passage devoid of any meaning. In the case of Cuil, reviews were almost UNANIMOUSLY negative, and most of them openly ridiculed the site. If you wished to alter it to "by some", you should have cited at least one out of thousands of articles, which positively appraises the performance and search relevance of the site.
By using watered down ambiguous language that can be applied to almost any article in the world, you are robbing the English language of its expressiveness, and misleading the readers of this article. "Neutrality" does not mean "bland language". It only means, express facts as they are. Maybe Wikipedia needs to elucidate further, the definition of neutrality while maintaining the expressive range of English.
So, anyway, I have other things to do in life. I shall let the article stand as it is.
BTW, you can also check some blogs which remark on the fact that all negative aspects of Cuil are systematically being removed from Wikipedia. --Ravik (talk) 15:18, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
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Look, i'm not sure who you people are talking to. I certainly don't work for cuil and didn't change anything at all in the article. I just put the NPoV tag and started the discussion here.
Now, about personal interests i can ensure you that my only concern here is to wikipedia. I don't really care if cuil is good or bad or a fiasco. I'm here just for defending the fact that wikipedia isn't any forum or blog. There are no reviews to be defended in such an entry. Our personal opinions don't matter, at least they shouldn't.
If someone is altering the entry code before dicussing it and without properly consent of all the others maintaining such an entry, it is surely an irregularity and should be denounced to the competent administrators.
One thing more. Cuil may have some good aspects, some good peculiarities. Doesn't it? Now, why just keep writing about what a disaster it was when launching. Because this is what this entry says: Cuil is a search engine. It is a crap. Period.
Is this really neutral? Think about it!
BTW: english is indeed a rich language. A text may be as much ambiguous as it's writer want's it to be. But a thesaurus/enciclopedy must not.
Regards. Gustavocc (talk) 17:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
I agree with you, Gwen Gale. But partially. If an enciclopaedia article may be as straight as possible, and in this particular case, must have a structure like: Bla is a thing that do something. Or, perhaps, Bla is a thing which creators wanted to do something and which unfortunately doesn't., how can one be cynic writing so? It would be possible in any newspaper, magazine, forum, etc. But not here thought. I don't encourage writers to write whatever verified information they wan't. We're not newspapers columnists. And if we are, this is not the journal we write to. All things being write here must, first of all, be rich in information about the thing itself. We may have trivia sections as well, but it is secondary. Our article here fails to do so. I personally got here to read about cuil and i found it to be something that specialists didn't like. And it was all. Now, i understand the will of writing as fast as possible to enrich the encyclopaedia at the time of being, but articles like this one doesn't do so. Our's, for instance, is kind of a newspaper highlight. Extra, extra, cuil sucks!!. Now as you said, we're not here to make previsions about cuil's faith. This is why enciclopaedias like Britannica and Barsa take some time for releasing new versions. They write about things (persons, events...) as they happened to be so they can write as much as possible about such things. I don't wish anyone to take it personal. I'm just standind for a neutral and enciclopaedic point of view... Best regards Gustavocc (talk) 18:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough. But we're not making it into the point. I'm sorry if I were miss interpreted here, but i didn't suggested nice and good things to be written. I have just suggested more things to be written, so the reader can be aware of what cuil is intended to do. And in this case why he didn't make it. You know, information about cuil itself, not just about why people don't like it. Gustavocc (talk) 19:02, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
I just got here and am a bit confused. Cuil got lots of positive mention in mainstream press e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/technology/28cool.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/cuil-joins-goog.html and even the negative bloggy stuff has been tempered by this Saul Hansell piece today http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/no-bull-cuil-had-problems/ What's so encylopediac about obsessing about launch criticism without balancing it out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Queenie130 (talk • contribs) 21:47, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Not directly related to anything, but I found this: http://www.cuil.com/info/announcements/ In other words, Cuil itself is admitting it had a rough start. That certainly goes a long way towards getting the criticism section considered neutral. We might all want to save this page, since it'll probably change soon. I plan on writing them some advice myself ... I really have no idea whether my letter will be one of hundreds or one of millions ... nor can I really say if my advice will be helpful, since it may well be that they've already considered doing things "my way" and found that it just can't work. But hopefully they'll read it and even more hopefully I might get a response. Soap Talk/Contributions 01:54, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The article as it stands is lamentable. It's out of date, as almost all the comments date from the time of the launch. In December 2008, Cuil appears to be working quite well. I say "appears" because I don't have the time to do searches of several thousand articles and compare the results from Cuil with those from Google or Yahoo, but I know that Google can be pretty frustrating too. On the few searches I have had time to do since discovering Cuil last night , it has worked well, and for some topics MUCH better than Google. It is ironic that at the top of the Wikipedia page this morning was the comment “ ” Merci et bravo pour votre impartialité ! — Benoit from Luxembuorg, donated 30 EUR (Thank you and bravo for your neutrality!"
It's quite unjustified in the case of this article.If all Wikipedia articles were as bad as this I for one would never have donated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Impert (talk • contribs) 12:02, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
The Cuil team is aware that anybody who understands French will laugh at the website's name and logo? Guest Account (talk) 08:27, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
According to Niall Ó Dónaill's dictionary, and just about anyone who speaks Irish, "cuil" means a fly. Like, a little insect that flies around bzzzzz. It has nothing to do with "knowledge", any more than a simple fly has intellect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.100.66.100 (talk) 17:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Frankly, it's the stupidest name ever. I know it's supposed to be NPoV, but one can only take a certain level of stupidity before it gets absurd. Anonywiki (talk) 16:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Cuil has adopted another meaning since the inception of the Cuil search engine. See http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory Amide10806 (talk) 04:27, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
I second this. The Cuil Theory is much more relevant for the internet than the Cuil.com search engine. I am dissapointed this article doesn't mention the theory. It is a proeminent meme on reddit.89.34.111.9 (talk) 09:37, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I agree that Cuil theory is much more relavent than the failed search engine and needs a place on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.170.232.249 (talk) 18:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
I believe that if an academic paper is written on or defines the unit Cuil then a mention (or more probably an article) is easily merited. However, it's not relevant enough to the Cuil search engine, and therefore should not be added unless the Notability requirements are not only met but exceeded. 129.21.65.185 (talk) 09:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
At this point cuil.com doesn't even exist anymore, but the reddit meme and associated site are still around. Any chance for inclusion in the article now that the lampoon is more notable than the actual site? 76.125.232.26 (talk) 22:58, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
The Cuil Theory article should be separate, because it really has nothing to do with the search engine except the origin of the name 'cuil'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.161.215.192 (talk) 17:45, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
It's dead. This is OR, but I've been told the employees were told at 11 AM PDT Friday, and the servers shut down at 4 PM. There will probably be some reliable sources next week. --John Nagle (talk) 20:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Cuil began its life with problems due to inability to cope with the load. Symptoms included incomplete search results. It also began with a crawler that sometimes misbehaved.
Later on, as it stabilized (and possibly because traffic decreased), it ended up as a relatively stable search engine which did not produce good enough search results to attract many visitors. And its crawler did not misbehave any more.
The Article does not clearly distinguish between these two types of problems. A casual reader will go away with the impression that Cuil's main problems throughout its life were a misbehaving crawler and an inability to cope with load.
And while we are on the subject, some of the citations are simply vague hearsay, referring to anonymous persons being quoted by others. If we must rely on statements from anonymous persons posted in a forum, the least we can do is cite their forum postings directly, instead of citing somebody else who in turn is citing the anonymous persons. Rahul (talk) 20:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Does http://www.cuil.pt/ have anything to do with this? (It uses Google search though, instead of its own)
70.24.247.54 (talk) 08:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
so does anybody know what the dealth with cuil.pt is? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:48F8:1053:0:487A:B545:B7BC:512D (talk) 22:42, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
The content in this section reminds me of a discussion rather than an explanation for the issue. For everyone who knows the story of Fionn mac Cumhaill it is quite obvious how it came to this misinterpretation (cf. nine hazelnuts - salmon of knowledge - Fionn mac "Cuill"). Compare for example the explanation given here. Imo this section should be rewritten.--Eusc (talk) 12:08, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Removed a big insertion on "Cuil Theory". Only source was Reddit, which is not a WP:RS. John Nagle (talk) 08:31, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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