Thursday, July 31, 2008

Cuil gets its first knockoff

It’s hardly been a week since Cuil, the self proclaimed mother of all search engines makes it debut and we have a knock off already. But know what? The knock-off might be actually better than the Original. Yuil is here! Well it was actually. Because it is offline now. Let me explain.

Yuil, as its creator Sam Pullara, says was put together as a quick parody of Cuil by mashing up the Cuil UI and Yahoo!’s search results. Sam, who is actually the Yahoo VP of Platforms, used the site to show off Yahoo’s recently-released Boss API. Boss is unique among search engine APIs, giving developers an unprecedented level of control over results generated by Yahoo’s search engine.

That said, it would have been good had Sam decided to let Yuil stay for us to have a better look.

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