Cuil Search Not Ready For Primetime
Cuil search engine needs work:
We didn’t find any results for “buffalo sabres”
Some reasons might be…a typo. Please check your spelling.
your search includes a term that is very rare. Try to find a more common substitute.
too many search terms. Please try fewer terms.
Finally, try to think of different words to describe your search.
Versus this from Google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,610,000 for buffalo sabres with Safesearch on.
Safesearch was on for both. Cuil is the latest challenger to Googlefor search supremacy, and they claim to index more pages than the Goog. I’ll wait a while to see if that actually pans out, but it would help if they could actually find something I’m searching for…
edit: okay, I’m getting results now. Guess they are getting hit pretty hard.
Tags: cuil, google, search, search engine
Sean Avery - Man of Fashion!
I’m sorry, Jerkwad, but no matter how much of an ass you try and make of yourself on the ice, how much you try and ‘agitate’ and make yourself sound tough, I will always picture you looking like this:
Short Pants FTW
and laugh. Good job. Thanks Wyshynski. And, uh, Mens Vogue I guess for the picture. Never thought I’d be thanking them in this space.
Explosion Behind HSBC Arena
May 30, 2008 News
…about 1000 yards from where I’m sitting. Here’s the first story I see on it. I heard the boom, but that sort of noise (with the construction and industry around here) isn’t out of the ordinary. And no, if I die, you cannot have my stuff.
Tags: explosion, hsbc arena, News
Cheapskates: $1 Bus Fares to NYC, Toronto
May 30, 2008 News
Megabus has started service between Buffalo and Binghamton, Toronto and NYC, in case you were not aware. The trick is, you can get tickets as low as $1 each way depending on when you search and how much demand there is for the trip. I just did a search, and could go round-trip to Toronto for $6 (plus $.50 reservation fee). I’d much rather take the train, but considering how expensive gas is nowadays for car travel, this could be an option for getting to NYC or Toronto if you can stand a no-frills ride.
Office Spaced
A California man used an automated script to sign up for more than 58,000 Google Checkout, Paypal, brokerage and other online accounts that use deposit verification techniques, and got sent $58,000. Think Office Space. It would’ve worked, except:
However, Largent used false names, including cartoon characters, as well as false addresses and social security numbers, which opened him to conviction under laws on mail, bank and wire fraud.
I want the list of cartoon characters used. Seen at Gizmodo.
Tags: gizmodo, stealing money
Red Sox Players May Boycott Their Trip To Japan?
Apparently the agreement that went down for the Red Sox to open the season includes a payment of $40,000 to each player. However, according to ‘locker room sources’, the agreement originally covered the coaches too, but they so far have not gotten their cash. This has caused the players to have a meeting and consider telling MLB to forget the flight. At least they wouldn’t have to knock Manny out with some spiked milk.
Croc Attacks Backpacker in Australia
Mar 17, 2008 News, They Said It, Wacky
It was a near-miss for the Darwin Awards in Australia’s Northern Territory, as a man was nearly disarmed by a 16ft saltwater crocodile. He and his friends wanted to get a picture with the apex predator, and as he leaned out over the water to point at it, it leapt at him. My favorite part of the article, though, is this quote:
I was pointing at it when it suddenly jumped up at me - I didn’t realise that crocs were so aggressive.
My emphasis. The best part is that since his friends had the camera, you can see every step of the bad decision, from Look, there’s a croc! to Hey, he’s getting pretty close and on to HOLY F@?&!!
Tags: australia, croc, crocodile, darwin awards, saltwater
