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Yahoo VP shows how Cuil could be cooler

By Owen Thomas, 6:20 PM on Wed Jul 30 2008, 2,271 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Sam Pullara, a vice president at Yahoo, has come up with a brilliant strategy: Rip off new search engine Cuil's three-column layout, and substitute in Yahoo's much more relevant search results. A sample test on "Cuil" yields much better information than the would-be Google rival offers. I'm guessing "yuil" is Gaelic for "humiliation."

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