Monday, July 28, 2008

CUIL IS IRISH FOR KNOWLEDGE

Will you test the search engine, Cuil? You could now search 121,617,892,992 web pages and Google has found 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web! The question is: Do you find relevant stuff? I miss Greg Linden's personalized news site, Findory.

I have added Amazon page recommendations widget to my blog.

Related: My post, ASK ABOUT SEARCH ENGINES.

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  1. Robert Simms6:52 AM

    I've written posts on Cuil twice:
    Un Cuil
    Now This is Cuil

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  2. bestonline32311:32 AM

    Search engine Cuil is likely to face even more critisim after it emerged that its name doesn't mean 'knowledge' in Irish (Gaeilge). Also, without an accent, Cuil should sound more like 'quill' than 'cool', as the company claims. Members of an online Irish language forum have been discussing the word and the company's claims of its definition. They say the word is most often translated to mean 'corner' or 'nook', but has sometimes been used for 'hazel', as in the nut.

    An online Irish language dictionary defines cúil as 'rear' while another says cuil describes various kinds of flies. So while the word, or versions of it with and without accent marks, can mean a few different things, most Irish language enthusiasts say it doesn't mean anything like knowledge, despite the search engine’s claims.

    "Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil," says the company, which is founded by ex-Google employees. A company spokesman, further explained that the word is used to describe knowledge based on an old Irish legend of the famous Finn MacCuill (sometimes the name is spelled Fionn Mac Cumhail, or better yet, MacCool).

    Finn, the legend goes, tasted a salmon that had eaten a hazelnut that had dropped into the fountain of knowledge and then he himself gained knowledge. Cuil sometimes means 'hazel', the company says, and based on the legend, it is also sometimes used to mean knowledge.

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    Nancy
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