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July 31, 2008
Yuil Is Dead - Long Live Yuil
Today TechCrunch reported on the birth of a new search engine: Yuil. Now Yuil is dead.
Yuil (pronounced yule) was a short-lived Yahoo-powered mashup designed to look like Cuil.
Apparently the Yahoo Boss mashup -- something of a search engine Frankenstein monster -- was destroyed by its inventor.
Yuil was designed by Yahoo VP of Platforms, Sam Pullara. Yuil was a brilliant marketing move designed to show off the new Yahoo BOSS API. BOSS gives developers a high level of control over SERPs generated by Yahoo's search engine.
The primary difference between the Yahoo Boss API, and the standard API-based engines is the ability to manipulate and reorder the results.
Posted by Kevin Heisler on July 31, 2008 9:15 AM
Comments
Free Trade Leads August 8, 2008 3:12 AM
What a dissapointed thing for blogger, this could be so useful to be in good SERP.
albachtimi - online information August 20, 2008 9:37 AM
I am happy that Cuil search gave me 200 visitors in first week of August. Looking forward to see how Cuil will go in long run.