Two ex Google engineers, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, along with a third person, Russel Power, have released a new search engine. Cuil started with 120 billion indexed pages and they stated that their new search engine has the biggest index of them all. Probably they haven’t read Google’s last post, where they say to have indexed more than 1 trillion pages, which is almost 8 times more than that.
From the tests I was able to make until it got down, it doesn’t seem very relevant and there are a lot of searches it returns no results, while other search engines do.
Cuil is a wannabe semantic search engine, understanding the meaning of words, but it’s not very good at it. Until now, I didn’t find anything I could like at it, better than Google. What I am satisfied of is the simple design.
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Ex Google Employees Released Cuil Search Engine - Fail
Posted on 28 July 2008
July 30th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
There’s plenty of search engines on the www and while google and yahoo are on I don’t see why oanyone would like to use this small search engines.
As for design it’s prety cool actualy. With this design the top position competition is eleminated and this is a + for the engine from my point of view.
July 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I like the fresh, dark-yet-classy design of Cuil, but I don’t really like the way it searches. It reminds me of Stumbleupon, where it gives you many options but doesn’t give you the most relevant one. But they are new, and I think they are off to a good start!
August 1st, 2008 at 12:47 am
Simple as it may be (and I love minimizing) but does this even come close to making a dent in the world of search engines?
August 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I think that cuil will not have a good future.. because google it`s too powerful to defeat it.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Has yet to index my site after two weeks of waiting…hmm…. not sure if it will be big or not.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I just don’t see this search engine doing anything to Google, what I do see it doing is dying out and people forgetting it. Oh well though.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:47 am
This SE is not ready for prime time. It’s too bad they hyped it so much for such a bas product. Maybe over time it will be a killer SE, but that isn’t likely.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:30 am
They should have thought of a better name. When I first heard of cuil I pronounced it kee-ul. I guess it’s supposed to sound like “kewl”. Branding **** up in my opinion.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am
Two ex Google engineers, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, along with a third person, Russel Power, have released a new search engine. Cuil started with 120 billion indexed pages and they stated that their new search engine has the biggest index of them all.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
I think that Cuil will be forgotten very soon. They made it public very soon and they will probably never have similar media attention again as it’s no more attractive for media. Google needs some serious competitor but Cuil is not the case.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Google’s main strength is in providing the most relevant and useful pages to the user. Cuil needs to go a step beyond Google in that regard to have a shot, and I think they’re a long way off still. I’m very used to the way Google displays searches too, so their display was odd to me too.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I hope this turns out to be a Google competitor eventually. Google really needs it !
September 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am
To see the retard who post such stupidity…. he has no idea about search engines, he performed some “tests” …Google has years of feedback from users in order for relevancy, Cuil is good enopugh for a new one.
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
As for design it’s prety cool actualy. With this design the top position competition is eleminated and this is a + for the engine from my point of view.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
After today Google will have added to their companies growth. They just keep getting bigger.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Definitely a fail.. I’ve heard so many bad reports. So far — I’m not impressed, but maybe they’ll improve with time.
September 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
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September 11th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
cuil is good but not better than google now, hakia is also alternative for google
September 17th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
There is more then enough space in the cyberspace to accomodate one more search engine. I think instead of thinking big, they should go niche first.
September 29th, 2008 at 9:36 am
just had a look at the search engine, first time I heard about it. interface is great. specially the use of ajax
October 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This is an informative post. Thanks.
October 26th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Great post very detailed and never even heard of this search engine i checked it out but is no where near being the next big thing or overtaking google
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October 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I have never heard of this to be honest, think I’ll just stick with Google!
November 14th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Today’s three search engines are very popular one of them most popular is google after that yahoo and lastly MSN. Other search engines hardly known by the users. I think I am not sure it will rise or not. can be in future it get rise….
November 19th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Hmmm, I think that Cuil will be forgotten very soon. They made it public very soon and they will probably never have similar media attention again as it’s no more attractive for media. Google needs some serious competitor but Cuil is not the case.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I think instead of thinking big, they should go niche first.There is more then enough space in the cyberspace to accomodate one more search engine,Cuil is not the case.