Comments on: Cuil is Cool, But Google Killer It Ain’t

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:03 +0000

I don’t like its habit of putting up random pictures it assumes are connected with the search. When I searched “japan”, for instance, I got pictures of everything from a Caucasian woman to what looks a bit like a disembodied hand. And searching for “United States” oddly enough doesn’t bring up an American flag but an assortment of agency logos.

It also appears to be a terrible research search engine at first glance. Just as a test search, “president of the USA” nets a White House site and a Wikipedia article on Google, but everything from Asian Americans to Girl Scouts on Cuil.

Google-killer it ain’t. Unless I’m doing something wrong.

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:35:19 +0000

I’m very happy to see someone going against Google, but these nerds couldn’t come up with a better name? Cuil-pronounced-cool is not going to be a winner. I suggest they come up with something poignant very rapidly, and change it before they get known to the general public…

By: chad

chad — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:51:31 +0000

I’ll vouch for it… if searching for myself if found High School track records and standings from 1999-2002, also found some groups I belong to. However the data retrieved from Google was nearly identical… except from different sources which I find really weird… for example.

Google found 400 dash times and places for State Level competition 2001
Cuil found Long Jump results from some Regional meet from like 2000

Both found the right DIgg account but only Cuil found livevideo … kinda weird.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:40:20 +0000

Ok, I assumed forbes was wrong, and it was just a copy/paste from them :)

@ Kevin: you mean thats not Cuil lol

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:32:17 +0000

I also found the page to load very slow. Also, I looked up my company and noticed a link to a different company with a similar name, however the image next to the link was for my company. That is definitely a inconsistency that will need to be cleaned up.

By: Sean McAuliffe

Sean McAuliffe — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:52:54 +0000

I got one, a “Can’t show you results due to high volume” message, but only once out of like 10 failed attempts. Seems like it’s getting hit pretty hard right now.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:49:14 +0000

I like the page numbers being persistent at the bottom of browser. The results it returned for my employer were all highly relevant.

But page loads can be really slow. And I have gotten a “we’re busy try again later” message. That is not cool.

By: Chowder

Chowder — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:35:50 +0000

Let me correct myself…Dan is correct…and Forbes is still wrong or Cuil is bumping up their numbers. According to many websites, including Google’s Blog, Google just reached 1 trillion pages indexed. But, they don’t say how many pages are unique sites indexed. http://www.imoka.net/2008/07/1-trillion-pages-indexed-by-google.html

Either way, it will be nice to see some competition for Google. It will make both companies push each other harder and we all are the benefactors.

By: Chowder

Chowder — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:25:07 +0000

@Paul…it’s suppose to be 120 trillion…yes…Forbes is wrong…just go to Cuil’s website and you can see the number of current listings.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:46:40 +0000

Cuil will pull results from 120 billion Web pages, which is, it claims, roughly three times the reach of Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft

is your 1 trillion a typo or is forbes wrong?