Cuil is Misses One Very Important Website
The new search engine cuil, which “searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft,” is not off to a good start with me.
 We didn’t find any results for “ideonexus” |
It’s just a bug in their search engine. If I searched on the word again from this page, I get back lots of results.
They should have gone with http://www.Coil.com/ instead of Cuil.com
Coil.com is:
- Easy to pronounce
- Easy to spell
- Catchy
- Short
- Memorable
It would have also been a good idea for them to launch a private Alpha and Beta before launching their search engine to the public. 10 years ago this launch would have been fine but people’s expectations are much higher now after having used Google Search for many years.
Comment by Dave — July 30, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Color me unimpressed:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clintjcl&btnG=Google+Search
vs
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=clintjcl&sl=lon
Gee, which one brings up my RELEVANT profiles, versus things I did once and never did again?
Comment by ClintJCL — July 30, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
I like the way google uses search patterns to tailor results.. IDK how that’s a negative =\
Comment by Matt — July 30, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
For supposedly indexing so many pages, you would think they would be able to point here? This is the third non-indexed site I’ve come across in the Cuil search engine.
-BMF
Comment by BMF — July 31, 2008 @ 7:03 am
Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two – many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil’s claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.
In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.
Comment by Karlonia - Cuil Results — August 4, 2008 @ 5:29 am
Cuil definitely disappointed me. The only thing I liked about it was the web 2.0 feeling. They certainly do have a LONG way to go if they want dethrone even other non-google search engines.
Comment by Sour Swinger — August 9, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Cuil has been getting universally panned it seems. Must suck for them, considering how much they paid for PR during their high-profile launch.
I much prefer Viewzi:
http://www.viewzi.com
The results are useful AND very uniquely presented. All the different “views” are fun to play with. I like the 3D Photo Cloud View. And I like how the Video X3 View shows short animated thumbnails of some of the videos in the search results.
Comment by doranchak — August 9, 2008 @ 9:39 pm
I find Viewzi slow and cumbersome. Can’t even open results in a new window (I don’t wait for page loads.. Homey don’t play that game.)
Comment by ClintJCL — August 10, 2008 @ 10:18 am