Cuil

Has anybody been using the new search engine made by ex Google employees called Cuil (pronounced coo)? If so I'd like to hear what you think.

http://www.cuil.com/

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Permalink Reply by DoonePlace on July 28, 2008 at 11:51am

The search results have a better format than in Google but the number of pages in their database seem very small compared to Google. I noticed in my field that the search engine results mainly found those companies that use Google Adsense and completely ignored Ning and the Blogs.

Google (a coincidence?) just announced they have hit the 1 trillion web page value in their search database today.

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Permalink Reply by David Kapuler on July 28, 2008 at 12:18pm

thanks for the insight

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Permalink Reply by Chris Campbell on July 28, 2008 at 12:47pm

I haven't had a chance to use it myself but I have heard from trusted sources that it is not good at all. It returns unusual results and sometimes very unrelated.

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Permalink Reply by Steve O'Connor on July 28, 2008 at 12:59pm

I tried it this morning, I wasn't impressed by the results. Many of my sites did not show at all!

That being said, their privacy policy is awesome. They don't log user information at all!

To me this is big. Google gets a pretty good picture of us with their search engine, and all the other "free" goodies they entice us with. I deeply distrust Google. If I hear one more person saying, "So what? I have nothing to hide," I think I'm going to lose it.

Hopefully they will improve. I want them to succeed. I'll keep checking in with them.

At this moment cuil is down.

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Permalink Reply by David Kapuler on July 28, 2008 at 2:40pm

Another interesting note about it....

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/687569/Cuil_Wants_to_Crush_Go...

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Permalink Reply by Vicki Davis on July 28, 2008 at 2:49pm

Here were my thoughts on Cuil.

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Permalink Reply by David Kapuler on July 28, 2008 at 2:58pm

Wow, great in depth review that really breaks down the comparison between the two. I do see that Cuil has some cool features but has a long way to go to catch Google which is to be expected this early on. I just wish it didn't have so many bugs upon this launch.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Grove-Stephensen on July 28, 2008 at 6:12pm

I really liked the drilldown options and the spam-free results. A promising start; I have included it in my Firefox search extensions and plan to use it in parallel with Google for a while. It is essential for the ecology of the internet that Google be credibly challenged, so I'm rooting for Cuil.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Davis on July 28, 2008 at 9:14pm

Hi, I just read about it yesterday on Vicki Davis' Cool Cat Teacher blog. She is very informative plus talked about another search engine called Northern Lights. If you don't read her blog regularly I would recommend. I can't put in the link because I am in China and blocked on that but she is easy to find.

Hope that helps a little.

Heather