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Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

karl — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:19:13 -0000

gezzmoSearch Engine all the way

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

BillyG — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:19:54 -0000

"I’ve got a theory: no one can create a better search engine than Google"

This comment spoils the article from the start. I am sure some people thought the same about the horse and buggy.

I suppose every search should start with a wikipedia entry and some big brands.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Oman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:08:31 -0000

Cuil are scraping images from our web sites and using them against search results showing sites of other companies â€“ hardly a search engine â€“ more like incompetent theft

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

phipphin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:18:16 -0000

Looks cool but when I tried to search - the results still not good enough

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:44:18 -0000

Your review wouldn't be as nice if Cuil were not backed by former Google engineers and VC.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

William — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:13:18 -0000

Cuil aint Cool at all, I tried a vanity search on Cuil using my last name, it found no reults on the Query, Google yielded 218,000, enough said

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Amit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:13:59 -0000

most interesting part, if you search for "cuil" on Cuil engine , search results shows hell lot of things, but does not say anything about cuil, neither cuil URL. strange !

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Vanessa Fox — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:01:47 -0000

Hi Stan,

Interesting article. A couple of corrections though. Tom never worked at Google. Anna did, as did Russell and Louis.

Also, Cuil seems to have a bug that causes it to show 0 results in some cases the first time you search for something. If you do that same query again, it returns plenty of results. This is the case with your example, DFI Nforce 4. http://www.cuil.com/search?...
I'm getting 186k results.

I don't necessarily agree that a search engines has to be Google to beat Google. After all, if the choices are Google and exactly-like-Google, then why would searchers switch. Cuil has an interesting approach in that they're trying to be completely different from Google. However, for a number of reasons, I don't think they've yet managed to build something that competes (yet). Even if they manage that feat (which is obstacle enough), they would still have to get a large percentage of searchers to leave something that's not broken and that's become a habit.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

janie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:06:34 -0000

Scroogle scraper with the CustomizeGoogle Firefox extension is my favorite way to search. That way I can enjoy the benefits of Google search without all their unwanted junk. I'm curious to see how well Cuil does. Some people must still recall how Google started out until they improved.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Linda Nelson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:36:35 -0000

I always type in the name of our company with no quotation marks to see how a search engine does, because the individual words are pretty common. We were the third entry, so I'm pretty impressed. It took forever for this to work on google, though now we come up first and fill the first three pages. Also, I like that it pulls up pictures with the text, but some of them don't see to relate. It will be fun to watch and see how it goes.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Jena — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:26:39 -0000

Have you ever heard of Blackle? www.blackle.com it's the black energy saving Google. I guess Cuil isn't that innovative.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

bill — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:26:16 -0000

Checked out cuil. It really SUCKS!!!
Enter a search and you will get a zillion results, all the same few sites.
They say that the size of the site or the popularity of the site is not important in their ratings.
Every single result on the first page of anything that you search is a professional site, which may have absolutely nothing on the subject of the search.
Entering random URLs in your bar will be just as helpfull as this search engine

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Andi Kalsch — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:22:05 -0000

When cuil myself, I get my website with a photo of a woman I don't know. And all the other results are accompagnied by wrong images, too.

And most results are not unique.

They won't win the race, like all the other "semantic" engines.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Keeem — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:41:13 -0000

What an incredible waste of 30+ million dollars. I get no results for a variety of search terms, and when I find results, it shows me a snapshot, sometimes paginated... but where are my other matches... it says it found 5534, but it's showing me 5 on page 1 of 1... Just... such... a... waste... Google need not worry about this one. :)

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Adam — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:16:23 -0000

The thing about Cuil is that it's still crawling the web. For instance, this morning i queried my hometown of Toledo only to have 0 results. By lunch, i found 10,200,000 results. Give it some time to crawl through the web and get settled. I think in time that this WILL be a solid rival to google, unlike many other search sites that come and go.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

ZenBug — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:36 -0000

I searched Cuil for a band I used to play in. One of those result boxes showed an image of my guitarist, but when I clicked on him, it took me to a page that had nothing to do with my band, just a similar topic.
Booo.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Fatbird — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:11:39 -0000

It did not work for me. I have tried to search for some European music artists and I got some very strange results.

The 2,3 columns layout is dope!

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Utahcon — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:00:21 -0000

Nice! Did a search for "chuck norris" and got 0 results.

Only Chuck Norris can find Chuck Norris! oh... and Google.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Anna — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:28:22 -0000

There is one more thing - Google is really global or very close to it. I can siting in Moscow find some information in spanish about some news in Madrid, and it is the same for many-many other languages... Can Cuil with it's so advertised index do that? No... at least for present... for example for request in Russian it returns nothing...

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

HelenKovalyova — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:08:33 -0000

Yep! Exactly! Everywhere Cuil is a hot topic today. Show us PR and Marketing faces :)!!

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Dustin Coates — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:00:16 -0000

More like the Techcrunch, Mashable, Drudge Report, Associated Press effect.

I want to know who their PR people are. I'm seeing a story about the launch of a new search engine on the front page of my local newspaper's website. Very impressive.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Ed Cunning — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:52:01 -0000

I just tried searching Cuil for my name, my alma mater, and Howard Stern. All three of which came up empty. Not a good start.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Tony — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:16:41 -0000

Thanks. But the site does not seem to work...:)

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Chris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:02:40 -0000

The name sounds odd, "CUIL IT" like Google it, doesn't sound good. But it is better to have a good competition, wish them luck. Soon however it will end up with either Microsoft or Yahoo, I doubt it can withstand on its own.

Re: Cuil – The Dark, Mysterious Version of Google

Golfcult — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:40:39 -0000

If you want to slay dragons you need to be quick, nimble and precise, Cuil is none of the above.