DISQUS

Christien · 1 year ago

Yes, it was pretty unimpressive. I was surprised given they had a release on WSJ today. I don't feel they came out swinging at all.

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Robert · 1 year ago

Well, I was pleased to see that we have a possible alternative option to Google... but local search is where I'm at. South Africa that is. Google is still the only engine to offer that. Sadly even the local engines can't offer a result as good as Google's. Despite this, when looking for non-area specific info I still use Ask.com. :)

One Way Link Building · 1 year ago

Aside from the odd look of the interface, I was actually pretty impressed with this new search engine. It was fast and clean and, given some time, will definitely get its indexing (and page locations) in order. I like at least having another option aside from the big G and M.

Missy Caulk · 1 year ago

We didn’t find any results for “ann arbor real estate blogs”

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Fifty Studio · 1 year ago

When will companies learn that you have to be ready for your launch or you get hosed in the media/blogs because something doesn't work.

Janeth · 1 year ago

My 7 year old website geeksonsteroids.com that ranks pretty good on Google was no where to be found on Cuil’s search results.

It also seemed to be a little slower than Google.

When I searched for just geeksonsteroids I got a lawnmower site that has nothing to do with geeks or steroids and to make it worst it was a made for AdSense website.

This is not a Google killer for sure.

sheppy · 1 year ago

The BBC Tech blog didn't put up a great review either... I did a few searches for sites that I'm involved with but really did not get anything decent. One site for a prominent keyword which ranks 2 in Google doesn't even feature...

Also, it says 400,000 pages found for search results, but I can never get past page 3 no matter how many pages in the paginator... probably just a glitch for now.

nile · 1 year ago

ant can`t compare with elephant best luck cuil

Jaan Kanellis · 1 year ago

Google rivals can keep coming out, but they have to realize no matter how "cooler" they search product is you need to have people actually using it to matter.

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Matt Keegan · 1 year ago

Not a good start, that's for sure. You would think that Cuil would do a trial run without everyone looking at the site. I can't seem to get the navigation bar to work for me. Let's hope that these matters are growing pains only.

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Dean · 1 year ago

Andy-

I searched for "hollow rhetoric" on Cuil and found their “Our Philosphy” link ;)

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

LMAO @dean - I knew it had to be somewhere. ;-)

Erik · 1 year ago

There does seem to be a few bugs to work out. If yahoo and microsoft can't over take Google there has to be a reason besides good search results.... It's become an everyday reference. Tivo doesn't offer as many options, movies, and space as most DVR systems, yet, you still tivo something, you don't dvr it???

It'll be tough to unseat a verb.

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Nick Stamoulis · 1 year ago

I think the thought process behind this new search engine is good but they have so much work to do if they want to compete with the big boys of search. I searched yesterday 3 times during the day for "search engine optimziation" and it came up with no search results. Before a site starts doing a PR push and promoting in the blogosphere they should make sure their technology works before they do this...otherwise they could have an online reputation issue on their hands...

Feodor · 1 year ago

Well, i have one question: is it a coincidence that cuil DOES NOT index any sites which are in cyrillic, for an example? How can you possibly create a search engine which avoids anything but latin alphabet?

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Phil Taylor · 1 year ago

Singularly unimpressive. As a webmaster for three sites, all of which have existed for 5+ years, Cuil couldn't find any of them. Whatever else Google may be, they find thousands of sites that Cuil doesn't seem to. I'll stick with Google, thank you.

Hau · 1 year ago

No search engine like Google, I tried cuil.com, I did not like it, if I wan to use something beside Google I will use onlyjust.net , its a Google search in a friendly interface, it combines all Google features on one page.

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Ashesh · 1 year ago

Well, search engines' results depend on the amount of time for which their bots have crawled the net. I'm still impressed with the results cuil came up with, given that it was just launched.

I'd say, give it time. We're probably in for an interesting duel.

Dave · 1 year ago

They should have gone with http://www.Coil.com/ instead of Cuil.com

Coil.com is:
- Easy to pronounce
- Easy to spell
- Catchy
- Short
- Memorable

Also would have been a great idea to have private Alpha and Beta releases before public launch.

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Dave - they should have gone with cool.com, but we all know that it's hard to get a good domain name these days.

China guide · 1 year ago

I do agree. I tested my several sites as well, which have been indexed by Google, Yahoo and MSN for quite a few months. But they are not shown at Cuil's search result. I don't think it is as big as what they said.