Well, in our article “That is so not Cuil” we showed how a bunch of ex-Google employees got together to produce “Cuil” which they believe shows the way forward for search engines. Then along came Yahoo who have released BOSS (Build you Own Search Engine) which allows 3rd party developers to build apon a Yahoo api and produce their own search engines. The Cuil developers spent a great deal of time, effort and money producing Cuil, so what did Sam Pullara do? Well in short, the answer is in the name:
It took him 4 hours to write it, 4 hours to go from 0 to 20 hits/second and 4 hours to get the domain name.
The astute amongst you will notice that it’s pretty much a like-for-like of Cuil.
You can read what Sam has to say about it here: http://www.javarants.com/2008/08/01/yuil-is-dead-4hoursearch-is-now-online/
The source code is being released by Yahoo and Sam has nicely kept the demo running and speedy it is too.
Read about the other top BOSS applications on the Yahoo search blog: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000613.html
Here you can see the search term “Hungerford Web Design” with this blog #1 and the main site #2 - I’m liking Yahoo more today 
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