There’s a new search engine called “Cuil” which is debuting and attracting a lot of press, as a possible competitor with Google. From my admittedly selfish perspective, I’m not impressed. Aside from its terrible slowness (obviously the servers are overloaded today), I can’t say very much for its accuracy when a search for the simple and familiar term rightwingbob retrieves a page of results that does not even include this very website!

The very first result (which on Google would be this website) is a profile for someone on the Free Republic message-board who calls himself “rightwingbob”. Be assured that this person is not related to your friendly host here. And I don’t think that he’s, you know, that Bob either. There are other “right wing bobs” out there who also happen not to be me. Not being a litigious type, I take a live and let live approach to these other bobs, but, as the saying goes: accept no substitutes.

Anyhow, I’d say that the folks at Cuil.com have a lot more tinkering to do.

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