My thought was that the launch generated a lot of interest, so they may have underestimated the load of the "new site" curiosity traffic. Denial of service-type, just a little overloaded as people check out the potential David to Giant Google.
Chris On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are bugs. > > 1) This morning I searched on a term (usability) and then switched my > preferences to allow for questionable content (by default this is > protected) and the same search returned zero results. > > 2) Recently I did a search which yielded only 5 results on screen, > confirmed by the fact that there was only 1 page of search results, > further confirmed b the fact that the forward and next arrows were > disabled, yet.... > the upper right area said, "88 results for [my search term]" > > 3) Response time for additional results pages was extremely slow. > Tried again just now and actually got a message: "No results > because of high load. Due to excessive load, our servers didn't > return results. Please try your search again." > > Perhaps Cuil was released too early? > > Regarding the design, I have mixed feelings thus far. I like that > there's more info revealed for each result and that there's some > small graphical element in the results. However, the layout is less > "efficient" to browse. > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31630 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
