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dusty · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:00 am Post subject:

Well, no more Google for me.
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Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

Apparently some or all of the blogs in question have been re-activated and I assume Google will take measures to see that biased shutdown of political sites is curbed.

Nonetheless, Google is a service from which I'd like to be weaned...and I'm as guilty as anyone for using the word "Google" as a synonym for search.

The next time I do so, please slap me down...HARD Wink

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Wouldn't such action be a violation of the myriad "election" rules, a "contribution in kind" to the Obama campaign for example? Is Google now a 527 for Obama? Are they also shutting down the anti-McCain sites? Nobody in the McCain camp will do anything about it, they may even have initiated the action to shut them down since he has thrown everybody under the bus who DARES to say anything negative about Obama. This is troubling.
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carpro · Admin Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 1176 Location: Texas

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START YOUR ENGINES: 'CUIL' TAKES ON 'GOOGLE'...
CUIL.COM...

Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search (pronounced "Cool")

Jul 28 07:35 AM US/Eastern
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable -- only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers -- Russell Power and Louis Monier -- searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.

<snip>

For those of us sick of Google, CUIL may be a better choice anyway.

JN173 · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: Overload

Appaarently there is significant interest in an alternate to google. The following is current message at TEWSpilot's Cuil link:

Wing Wiper · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:12 am Post subject:

I quit using Google a while back when they started collaborating with the Chinese Communists. I switched to Ask.com and made it my browser home page. I haven't really noticed any downside and feel better about myself.

Nothing Google does really surprises me much, to be honest.
Yet they grow. Evil or Very Mad

dusty · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:26 am Post subject:

Have you guys tried this one. I like this layout a lot.

http://www.searchme.com/
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TEWSPilot · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

My browser popped up this warning when I checked the site:

Security warning:

You are about to go to an address containing a username.

Username: logs
Server: logs.drevil.svl.kavam.net

Are you sure you want to go to this address?

Maybe someone more "IT savvy" can comment.

Me#1You#10 · Site Admin Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503

dusty · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

I use it all the time with both Firefox 3 and I.E. 6.0 and 7.0 with no message like that ever coming up.
I have the new AVG with their excellent browser plugin that detects malicious code on web pages and it hasn't beeped on that search engine.
I'm not sure what you are getting there or why.
It's really a great search engine layout with each result displayed as a graphic web page you can scroll through.

#1, I don't trust McAfee either.

Dusty
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dusty · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject:

Well foohey. I didn't check to see who they were drawing their database from, I just knew I liked the graphic interface they set up.
So what to do. Yahoo is as bad or worse as Google. MS Live?
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TEWSPilot · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

I use Firefox and IE6, but this message came up when I was using Opera 9.51. Opera has some features I like when browsing sevral sites at once. I only had this site open at the time and opened the search site in a new tab. I just started using McAfee a few days ago, was using Free Avira, so I don't know whether the warning came from Opera or from McAfee. I tried it again just now, using Opera again, and I got the same warning. Beats me. I use Spybot Search and Destroy to trap spyware and adware and "bots as well as to clean my computer regularly, so if it put anything on it, it won't get very far. I haven't noticed any difference in the operation of my computer, so maybe it was a "false positive". Strange that it showed that server path, though, and listed what it did about it.

You can always try the new one I mentioned above:

CUIL.com