Warning About Cuil!! - Linux Forums

07-28-2008	#1 (permalink)
cousinlucky Linux User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New York City Posts: 426	Warning About Cuil!! I got an email today from a Libertarian website and an article within it mentioned a new search engine ( cuil dot com ). I clicked the link to check it out and searched for linux xpistub library. Four or five things appeared on my computer screen. I clicked one and was taken to a porno site which I did not appreciate. I tried another and found my computer being scanned by some supposed anti-virus program. I could not disconnect my external modem so I shut it off. I am going to email fee and advise them of what happened. Has anybody at LinuxForums ever used this search engine? __________________ Linux registered user # 414321 You Should Not Give In To Evils, But Proceed Ever More Boldly Against Them!! -from book six of Virgil's Aeneid http://www.paynal.com Last edited by bigtomrodney; 07-28-2008 at 07:39 PM..

07-28-2008	#2 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,596	I just read about this new search engine on Google News ( 2nd entry in Hot Trends and a lot of other entries related cuil only ). Checking it right now. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

07-28-2008	#3 (permalink)
ozar Super Moderator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Arch Linux Posts: 12,685	I've tried it and was unimpressed, but maybe it'll get better with time. __________________ oz New Members: * README *

07-28-2008	#4 (permalink)
techieMoe Super Moderantor Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 9,334	I Googled myself and then "Cuiled" myself. The search results in Google were much more relevant than the ones in Cuil. I have to agree with a point brought up by some analysts in this WIRED article, it may not matter how superior Cuil is to Google; Google has pretty much become synonymous with web search. That sort of brand recognition is hard to shake. __________________ Registered Linux user #270181 TechieMoe's Tech Rants

07-28-2008	#5 (permalink)
Oxygen Linux User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Hartlepool, England Posts: 390	On the other hand... if it brings up porn... then it knows when I'm lying. I want to find drivers for my network card. No Dave... I can't do that... because subconciously you want porn But I need the network card drivers. You will fap to these midgets... it is what you desire I will not fa- ok I will... I'd NEVER be able to get anything done __________________ Graham - You'd better Use Linux! I'm registerd Linux user #397030. What about you?

07-28-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cousinlucky

an article within it mentioned a new search engine ( cuil dot com ).

Hope you don't mind Lucky, I took the initiative to remove the link for the site. Given the nature of the conversation I figured you didn't want them getting an increased ranking among search engines based on your thread

Feel free to revert it if that was your intention though...

They also claim 'cuil' as an Irish word. That I'm doubting very much though I could be proven wrong. I can think of several other meanings other than 'knowledge' though, but even then the grammar is wrong.

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07-28-2008	#7 (permalink)
smolloy Linux Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: CA, but from N.Ireland Posts: 2,408	I agree that they're having a few problems with weird results, but they're currently being hammered by Slashdot traffic, so I'm gonna wait a while before judging them. Who knows, maybe this time next year we'll be directing newbs to just****ingcuilit.com __________________ Registered Linux user #388328 \|\| Registered LFS user #15880 AMD 64 X2 4600+ :: 2X1GB DDR2 800 :: GeForce 9400 GT 512MB :: ASUS M2N32 Deluxe :: 4X250GB SATAII Need instant help? Try us on IRC -- #linuxforums on freenode

07-28-2008	#8 (permalink)
carlosponti Linux Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 559	i get an error on every search i do, so much for them i suppose. __________________ Blog Registered Linux user 396557

07-28-2008	#9 (permalink)
fingal Linux Guru Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Birmingham - UK Posts: 1,539	I tried it earlier today having read about it on the BBC website. There is an Anglo-Celtic word to describe what I think about it... It's shite. Hope no-one is offended. To qualify this I searched for "social housing" and it crashed. I then searched for social housing (minus the quotes). It found nothing. It's also very slow. I would probably use Dogpile in preference to it. __________________ I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

07-28-2008

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cousinlucky

I tried another and found my computer being scanned by some supposed anti-virus program. I could not disconnect my external modem so I shut it off.

Please, tell us more about this, because this is a serious issue here.
What is the distribution you are using? Do you use a custom or
default kernel? What is the name of the browser and which plugins were installed when this happened?

You talked about a modem, so I assume there is no hardware firewall involved?
Which services listen on your system on TCP and UDP sockets?

Don't forget to also give the version numbers of all the things asked for above.