Maybe my perception is biased because I know the founders of Cuil personally from working with them, and Russell's an old friend from school. They are very smart people -- Russell can code circles around pretty much anyone I know -- and the truth of the matter is that writing a search engine is just really hard. The fact that they've gone as far as they have is actually quite impressive, and I applaud them for pushing the web forward. I expect great things from them.
cuil
Maybe my perception is biased because I know the founders of Cuil personally from working with them, and Russell's an old friend from school. They are very smart people -- Russell can code circles around pretty much anyone I know -- and the truth of the matter is that writing a search engine is just really hard. The fact that they've gone as far as they have is actually quite impressive, and I applaud them for pushing the web forward. I expect great things from them.
-
blog moved
As described elsewhere, I've quit LiveJournal. If you're interested in my continuing posts, you should look at one of these (each contains feed…
-
dremel
They published a paper on Dremel, my favorite previously-unpublished tool from the Google toolchest. Greg Linden discusses it: "[...] it is capable…
-
treemaps
I finally wrote up my recent adventures in treemapping, complete with nifty clickable visualizations.
- Post a new comment
- 8 comments
- Post a new comment
- 8 comments