Cuil’s Unicode Support… Or lack thereof.
The blawgs are ablather in talk about a new search engine called Cuil.
I took a look, and personally I think it looks pretty nice. The layout is original, it seems quite fast, and while the results don’t seem to be as good as that cough other search engine, it strikes me as better than some other alternatives I’ve seen.
Except for the deal killer.
Exhibit A: Russian
Википедию - Cuil
Exhibit B: Bengali
উইকিপিডিয়া - Cuil
Exhibit C: Japanese
ウィキペディア - Cuil
Exhibit D: French
Wikipédia - Cuil
It ignores the diacritic and searches for “Wikipedia.” The first hit is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.
Exhibit E: Chinese
維基百科 - Cuil
Huh, Chinese works. Go figure.
(I just randomly tried those languages.) Almost all of the above return “No results because of high load… Due to excessive load, our servers didn’t return results. Please try your search again.” Which is obviously not the case, because ASCII searches run okay.
In other words, Cuil pretty much doesn’t index anything but ASCII and, uh, Chinese. The 1970s called, they want their regular expression back…
I’m sure more complaints like this Twitter post complaining about lack of Vietnamese support will bubble up…
Anyway, it’s not like building a search engine is easy or something! I hope a fix for this is in the works, and good luck to Cuil!
Oh brother. Putting the word “Cuil” into this post seems to have been a total spam trap… had to turn off comments on this post. Eh, I’ll just delete them.
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