The Yuil is dead! Long live 4hoursearch!
OK, Yuil was a spoof on Cuil + Yahoo!, but what’s 4hoursearch?
4hoursearch is so named because it took the creator of Yuil and a friend just 4 hours to write the code as a demonstration of the Yahoo!’BOSS system as described here:
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
It is a lovely summer day and here we all are inside reading about spoofs of search engines. We all need to get out more!
Hmmm, nice looking layout for results. But I worry about the slothful trend of the new search engines to pull up not only Wikipedia but the more useless parts of Wikipedia–like the talk pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis
And a 1999 item as one of the first results is way too old–can’t they exclude things that old as among the first results? I need a search engine to be as good as PubMed in that respect or I don’t go back.
But a good effort so far.
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Oops-I didn’t read carefully enough–this is just a baby demo thing. Sorry about that, Charles! Still, I mean it about Wikipedia. It shouldn’t be gaining the weight of authority it is getting. I like it, but it ain’t everything.
Pretty cool to make a pretty darn good search engine in four hours.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
The original article was posted here:
http://www.javarants.com/2008/08/01/yuil-is-dead-4hoursearch-is-now-online/
I’m very surprised it was just copied word-for-word into this site.
Sam