Cuiler

Wow. I searched for my startup and it immediately came up with a breakout box for "<name> (Startup)" with additional links to our VC, a crunchbase profile, and more. That's actually better than Google in semantic relevance.

For those unfamiliar with what this is about, I found this page helpful: <a href="http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory" rel="nofollow">http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory</a><p>(It is a joke aimed at the search engine Cuil, in reference to the irrelevant results that often appear for searches).

If it weren't so funny I'd almost feel bad for Cuil.<p>Although it's a little disingenuous, because Cuil's pitch was that their display of results was radically different. That and that they indexed a lot.

Searching for "hamburger" made my day.

After the obligatory vanity search yielded positive results (this rarely happens because I'm a nobody), I'm giving it a one week trial as my default search engine.<p>[Edit] It seems to be giving way better results than Bing. Nice to see that smart dudes in garages can still give megacorps a run for their money in their own backyards.

The results are relevant, especially for 'sex'. Which is good. .. if you give right results for such an overcrowded space, you have to be good!

I've never changed my default search engine...here goes nothing!

For the record, this joke was the idea of Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing) of YC &#38; reddit fame. I want to check with him first before outing him--hence the delay :).

I like this feature - <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21+Hacker+News" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21+Hacker+News</a>

Should be "less garbage and fewer cuils."

The "!Bang" page confused me for quite a few seconds.<p>I have buried in some old memory layer the use of "!" as logic negation prefix (for plain ASCII typing), e.g. x = !y<p>Curiously, I'm OK with the Unix shell "!cmd" to repeat ...

The black background killed my eyes.