Alex Dumitru / Sandossu » Search http://www.alexdumitru.com SEO, Social Media & Misc. Ramblings Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:06:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Adding Search Suggestions to Image Search http://www.alexdumitru.com/319-google-adding-search-suggestions-to-image-search.html http://www.alexdumitru.com/319-google-adding-search-suggestions-to-image-search.html#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:15:26 +0000 Alex Dumitru http://www.alexdumitru.com/?p=319 Google has just added search suggestions to Image Search and it doesn’t seem to be the same as for the web version. They are trying to make suggestions relevant, but there are always issues, unfortunately, especially that they are based on users behavior. You might find adult or irrelevant suggestions, but if you want to get rid of them at all, go to preferences and check “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box.”

Google Image Search Suggestions

]]> http://www.alexdumitru.com/319-google-adding-search-suggestions-to-image-search.html/feed 4 Ex Google Employees Released Cuil Search Engine – Fail http://www.alexdumitru.com/288-ex-google-employees-released-cuil-search-engine.html http://www.alexdumitru.com/288-ex-google-employees-released-cuil-search-engine.html#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:31:46 +0000 Alex Dumitru http://www.sandossu.com/?p=288 CuilTwo ex Google engineers, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, along with a third person, Russel Power, have released a new search engine. Cuil started with 120 billion indexed pages and they stated that their new search engine has the biggest index of them all. Probably they haven’t read Google’s last post, where they say to have indexed more than 1 trillion pages, which is almost 8 times more than that.
From the tests I was able to make until it got down, it doesn’t seem very relevant and there are a lot of searches it returns no results, while other search engines do.
Cuil is a wannabe semantic search engine, understanding the meaning of words, but it’s not very good at it. Until now, I didn’t find anything I could like at it, better than Google. What I am satisfied of is the simple design.

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