today in my website's
access.log (wrapped for easier legibility):
64.1.215.166 - - [21/Nov/2008:19:03:02 +0100] "GET /{,blog/} HTTP/1.0" \
404 6963 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Twiceler-0.9 http://www.cuil.com/twiceler/robot.html)"
the broken URL comes from my
~/.signature which since about 2 months
contains the following fragment:
http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/}
& probably that line was found in some web archive of a mailing list or
newsgroup or somesuch.
now what is this highly intelligent Twiceler thingy? a look at the URL in
the
access.log entry redirects to
cuil, & the page
proudly claims in friendly, large, green letters
Cuil is the biggest search engine on the planet.
apart from the fact that I've never heard about them & that their search
results are not impressive either, their "
philosophy" (huh?)
page claims:
Size matters
maybe it's just me but probably they should invest more in technical
"cuil" [0] than in marketing speak that sounds less like search
engines but more like another business branch on the intarwebs.
[0] "Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge." (source: cuil again)
