A rival for both Google and Microsoft search ? Well Anna Patterson a former Google employee is hoping so, with the launch of her new search engine Cuil “cool” which hopes to deliver much greater relevance in search engine results than Google and Microsoft Search. Danny Sullivan has already endorsed the Cuil search engine as “promising”
The search index of Cuil is large but can Cuil really take on Google and Microsoft ?
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28th July 2008 @ 10:57
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Seems really slow to me, I do prefer the way results are displayed and how it displays related searches. I hope it becomes a major competitor, unfortunatly that is extremely unlikely. Dave - your not ranking for “UK SEO” obvisously not so relevant yet either!
28th July 2008 @ 12:28
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When will Cuil stock options be offered?
28th July 2008 @ 13:02
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My first impression is I’m not too impressed.
The BBC website have picked up on this story which I found quite interesting. Although they do state:
“Instead of just looking at the number and quality of links to and from a webpage as Google’s technology does”
…which is obviously incorrect and not great reporting.
28th July 2008 @ 14:37
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I have had a similar experience to Dan not only could I not search I could not find it own information pages.
Also found it a bit slow.
Was looking to see how I could get added to the databse.
Again could find no information
28th July 2008 @ 15:30
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Pretty confident statements on their “About Us” pages..
I’ve just plugged in a very simple term, which I know doesn’t yield that many pages, and it’s still searching. Anyone else finding this?
28th July 2008 @ 16:01
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[...] Dave Naylor’s followers are watching it closely already. [...]
28th July 2008 @ 16:15
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We had to block this ’search engine’ from our network entirely. It appeared to act as a scrapper, and took up huge amounts of system resources and bandwidth when it got its claws in any sort of dynamic content generation site.
We thought it was some kind of scrapper at first because they have their servers located at a dubious datacenter known for hosting the stuff that nobody else wants to have in their locations.
They asked us to please allow their crawler to continue to access our network, but we told them when they can show some kind of value to our customers (ie. just like how google will send traffic in exchange for allowing the crawls) then perhaps we will reconsider them.
If they think the cry of ‘we are better’ is all it takes… they will be nothing more than another addition to the wannabe hall of fame.
28th July 2008 @ 18:44
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Like we read somewhere else, we didn’t get desirable results for several terms. We like the concept but it needs a lot of work before it can compete with the big boys.
28th July 2008 @ 20:46
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I still had more relevant results with Google then with Cuil.
why because these days everything is everything. I typed in steam pressure physics and Cuil gave me Chernobyl incident, Google gave me physics forums with questions about this subject.
much closer to what I was looking for28th July 2008 @ 22:08
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Yes… this search engine wannabe must learn some tricks yet. I typed in 2 phrases. One is my website (domain name) which in Google has supplemental + round 60.000 visitors per month - Cuil results… very bad…
2nd one - a very popular phrase - Cuil results… none… server overload.
@Guys at Cuil… it needs more than large index to be better than the best company in the last decade (in terms of success of course)29th July 2008 @ 00:13
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30th July 2008 @ 08:46
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Any new entrant into this market is worthy of a look, and although I have always believed that new entrants are required to stimulate markets and nothing is forever (lets fact it the Roman Empire isn’t still here!), I do not see a new search engine replacing the big four encumbents in the near future, particularly the top two. So I took a look, I put in two often used and important local searches just to check the results. ‘Accountants in Leeds’ and ‘Driving Schools in Cambridge’ produced a load of rubbish. Neither search offered me a single accountant or driving school, but rather a series of directories and strange links that often bears no relation to Leeds or Cambridge. So as is often the case online, I won’t we going back and I think Google and Yahoo! can still rest easy in their beds.
30th July 2008 @ 11:31
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I cannot find what I was looking for (e.g Singapore related search result). End of story, not using it anymore till someone tells me its great.
11th August 2008 @ 09:43
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ooo…. wha’s this? ” The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.”
A few teething problems perhaps ?