One of the few things that are interesting about
Cuil, the search engine launched
two days ago, is the query suggestions feature. Most search engines suggest queries using a list of popular searches, but Cuil didn't have this option. The site obtained the suggestions by compiling a list of
n-grams from web pages. For example, if you type "web images", you'll get a lot of variations of Google's navigation bar. A Google search for
"web images * * *" returns similar results.
A simple way to view just the suggestions is to use:
http://www.cuil.com/suggest?q=click here (replace "click here" with your search). You'll notice that the results are very different than the suggestions from
Yahoo,
Google or
Ask.
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