Yuil Be Missed
| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | --Sean |
The search engine cuil launched with great fanfare earlier this week and...well, landed shortly afterwards. Swept up in the moment and wanting to demonstrate the simplicity of building new search applications on top of Yahoo! BOSS, Sam Pullara invented...Yuil.
Image credit to Amnesia
Taking the cuil frontend design and hooking it into Yahoo!'s search results took some indeterminate but presumably short period of hacking and resulted in a whole new search engine that a majority of commenters noted as being faster and more relevant than the $33-million-backed original. Sadly, Yuil was taken down, presumably due to the copyright and trademark issues (but aren't parodies protected? Maybe not if they work better than the source material...), but it will always have a special place in our hearts as a timely demonstration about how easy, effective, and hilarious Yahoo! BOSS applications can be.
My favorite: "Searching enough web pages"
EDIT: If you're curious, Yuil has been relaunched as 4hoursearch.