Search Engine Cuil Launched to Compete with Google

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

New contender in the search engine market. Only this time, it's a former Google engineer.

http://www.cuil.com/
http://www.google.com/

That really does look "Cuil" ... Seriously ... I love the results that show in the "magazine like" layout ... I am going to use both Cuil and Google for a week or two now for the same searches and base my decision (on which one I'll prominently use) on the most relevant results ... according to me ofcourse ...

I like the display, as well. I'm not sure its results are up to snuff, yet, based on my intial examinations.


//How about this as a benchmark...

Ozzu isn't even found in it. I may have banned their robot though. I will have to look into that.

ah okay, and I am searching for "webmaster forum" right now, I am on page 14 and still no ozzu ...

but based on your test ... 19,057 results for brintney spears ...

Ah! So you have to spell Britney incorrectly. I see how it works now. Hehehehe

You spelled her name wrong, should be "britney spears", but I get 0 results for the correct spelling... odd.

haha that's funny ... didn't even see that ... That's really odd ... Maybe I should do a search for Websmasters forrum to find ozzu. lol.

But...but... I like Google.

I had a discussion with a friend a while back. I realized that I rely on Google for a large number of things, especially in college: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, web search, etc. It was then that I realized that I'm ok with Google taking over pretty much every aspect of my life.

Google Food, Google DriveToWork (beta), Google Matress, Google Beer.

Ok, maybe not beer.

But this Cuil thing... I like the UI design, but I'm not sure I'll every really switch from Google. There's something inherently better about the simplicity of Google. The article talks about how "Google looks the same as it did 10 years ago, and will look the same a year from now."

I kinda hope so.

I checked it as well. It definitely looks cool. We will see if it perform better than Google...
I wonder if they have some webmaster tools? I would love to index my websites to search engine.

Something seems wildly inaccurate about their result counts.

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ozzu&sl=long

I get a few results relating to Ozzu, but not Ozzu itself.

That's nuts, I got zero results using that exact same search 45 minutes ago Spoof, now I've got roughly 83,000 results.

// Edit -- Well that's just plain odd. If I click any of the page numbers, I get the zero results page again.

http://www.hostscope.com/templature/not ... after-all/

I searched for sony and my Co-worker did the same, I got 0 results and he got like 9 pages. I had to search it again to get anything, but I only got 2 results.