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Cuil copying Google?

Google achieved search engine dominance by being both simple and fast, and new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool”) seems to have taken the best of Google as a model.
Here’s Cuil’s search enquiry field - a straight copy of Google, including Google Suggestions:

But the search query results pages ARE different:

I’ll be trying Cuil out over the [...]

Give people what they want

The Google Blog offers a great post on Google’s technology.
Official Google Blog: Technologies behind Google rankingreports:
“Search in the last decade has moved from give me what I said to give me what I want. User expectations from search have rightly increased. We work hard to fulfill the expectations of each and every user, [...]

The people’s search engine?

New search engine Wikia.com is now open for users to play with.
Jimmy Wales: Wikia Search Finally Doesn’t Suck reports:
“Wikia Search also allows people to ‘annotate’ results. If you click on ‘annotate,’ it opens up a window with the actual Web page in question. Anything you click on or highlight will be added to the [...]