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Every heard of Cuil? #1 (permalink) Sat Oct 11, 2008 16:56 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Hi,

I've just returned from this English teacher workshop and one of the many things I learned through Erik's WebQuest presentation was that there is a new search engine out there called 'Cuil'. Now, I've played around with it a little and must admit it looks pretty interesting. Similar to Google, Cuil has a very clean interface without any distractions and clatter. What's different is the way Cuil present its search results. Rather than listing the links of web pages, Cuil displays short texts along with the links so the result pages look a bit like a newspaper.

Erik also told us that Cuil was founded by former Google employees so this project might be quite successful. One of the indicators of its popularity is that some the Cuil pages have already reached PageRank 7!

Anyway, how cool do you think is Cuil?
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Every heard of Cuil? #2 (permalink) Sat Oct 11, 2008 18:20 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Hi,

I haven't found myself using this search engine, but I doubt it will gain as much popularity as Google as its name is far too complicated to remember, in my opinion.

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Every heard of Cuil? #3 (permalink) Sat Oct 11, 2008 18:22 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
It's more handsome than Google.

Found this, potentially, useful tool there:

http://www.wordex.org/

Edited to calm the natives. Wink
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Every heard of Cuil? #4 (permalink) Sat Oct 11, 2008 20:10 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Torsten wrote:
Anyway, how cool do you think is Cuil?
Hi Torsten
I think it will be interesting to test it and compare it with Ms Google.

Molly wrote:
Found this useful tool there:
Hi Molly
The idea seems reasonable enough. However, there are apparently only 221 words currently, so I don't see how it can be viewed as a useful tool at the moment. I'm actually a bit surprised that you liked it since it appears that register categorization will rely heavily on native-speaker intuition -- and haven't you stated on a number of occasions that you don't trust that? Wink
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Every heard of Cuil? #5 (permalink) Sat Oct 11, 2008 23:56 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
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However, there are apparently only 221 words currently, so I don't see how it can be viewed as a useful tool at the moment.


Depends how you use it, I guess.
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and haven't you stated on a number of occasions that you don't trust that?


I've stated on a number of occasions that one must consult a number of sources, including native-speaker intuition. When will you listen?
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Every heard of Cuil? #6 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:49 am   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Molly wrote:
Depends how you use it, I guess.
Oh, so the register aspect is not the part you find useful then. (That does seem to be the main point/goal of the site though, doesn't it.) Were you trying to suggest it as a handy dictionary instead?
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I've stated on a number of occasions that one must consult a number of sources, including native-speaker intuition. When will you listen?
I listen and read very well. Wink

The way that site seems to work is that basically anybody can go to the site, input a word and then assign a register to it. Thus, the register information for any given word is likely to be the opinion of one single anonymous person -- probably based primarily on that one person's intuition. And who knows -- there could even be words that end up being categorized based on ESLese intuition. Shocked
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Every heard of Cuil? #7 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 15:38 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
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Thus, the register information for any given word is likely to be the opinion of one single anonymous person -- probably based primarily on that one person's intuition.


Nothing wrong with having personal opinions and using one's intuition as long as one is ready to be challenged or found incorrect. You don't seem to take either of those easily. Here you go again ranting on because at least one person on this forum advises using caution when using or listening to native speaker intuition.
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Every heard of Cuil? #8 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 16:02 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
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I have posted some observations -- based on what I found at the site. Did you find something different there? Why not tell us how you're planning to use the site? After all, you're the one who posted the link to it.
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Every heard of Cuil? #9 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 21:55 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Yankee wrote:
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I have posted some observations -- based on what I found at the site. Did you find something different there? Why not tell us how you're planning to use the site? After all, you're the one who posted the link to it.
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Would you like to create a separate thread for your deeper questions about that website?
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Every heard of Cuil? #10 (permalink) Sun Oct 12, 2008 22:27 pm   Every heard of Cuil?		  
It was your O.T. I'll leave the separate thread to you.
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Every heard of Cuil? #11 (permalink) Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:16 am   Every heard of Cuil?		  
Hardly O.T., Amy. You're the one who took us in that direction.
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Every heard of Cuil? #12 (permalink) Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:46 am   Every heard of Cuil?		  
How is Yankee the one off topic when you're the person who posted the first reference to wordex?!?!

Here's the order of posts, topic wise:

Torsten: Cuil (original topic)
SkiIuk: Cuil (original topic)
Molly: Cuil, (original topic) but then let's talk about Wordex (new topic)

Why do you take so much delight in purposely being inflammatory? Yes, when you post just to fight, that's being inflammatory.
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Every heard of Cuil? #13 (permalink) Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:40 am   Every heard of Cuil?		  
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How is Yankee the one off topic when you're the person who posted the first reference to wordex?!?!


Why would you imagine that discussing that which one finds on Cuil is off-topic? Such discussion can show the capabilities of the engine regarding language study, which I guess is interesting to some, here.

Here's another Cuil find:

http://www.indiamike.com/india/members/mollyb-u21671/

Do you think that off-topic, Skrej, Amy?
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