Hydrolix http://www.hydrolix.com All things Chris Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Not so ‘Cuil’ http://www.hydrolix.com/not-so-cuil.html http://www.hydrolix.com/not-so-cuil.html#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:24:42 +0000 Chris http://www.hydrolix.com/?p=5 So a colleague of mine sent me a link to Cuil, a new search engine start-up founded by former Google employees and backed with $33million of capital. It looks nice and promises a lot and it is early days having only launched on July 27th. However, curious to see if BootsnAll was ranked under ‘travel’ I found myself faced with this page (click on the image for a larger view):

Not so Cuil

Not so Cuil

Admittedly this is actually a bug. I found this by trying to click on page 7 of the results page. But it’s still pretty funny, I think. But I also found, on page 6, USA Today listed as a result for ‘travel’. Not the travel section, the home page of USA Today. Is that really the most relevant you can get? If so, this search engine won’t be around for long.

]]> http://www.hydrolix.com/not-so-cuil.html/feed/ New Car http://www.hydrolix.com/new-car.html http://www.hydrolix.com/new-car.html#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:58:57 +0000 Chris http://hydrolix.com/?p=3 After my accident on Sept 22nd which wrote off my previous vehicle (Sylvia - I did not name her), I’ve been hunting for a ‘new’ car. I had my heart set on a Mazda3 cos I’ve liked them for ages, then my eyes were diverted to other options (thanks, Mika). Currently I’m all excited about a Subaru WRX wagon. It looks all family friendly but it pins you to your seat from the line. Other options include a VW Golf (GTI’s and TDI’s) or a Volvo of some sort.

Now if the bank would just return my calls about some money…

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