Comments on: Cuil search engine: Reinventing the wheel

By: david

david — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:42:14 +0000

good porn link. thanks

By: cu'i'l

cu'i'l — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:34:28 +0000

I was trying to fetch some information behind the ‘i’ in Cuil logo and got none.
Google fetched 2000+ pages whereas cuil returns none.
I noticed that Cuil indexed pages are not ‘useful’ information or ‘related’ info based on the search term provided, however there are results from say mandarin posts or some other font i dont have installed. Is this translated info ?

By: Dube

Dube — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:51:42 +0000

I love the interface, but everything else is just awful. The images linked next to the search listings are not related in any way. How is that happening?

By: Stamatios

Stamatios — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:19:35 +0000

i used cuil to search for: cuil search engine, and their own website is not found at all

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:11 +0000

What’s funny is if you “Cuil” the term “Cuil” you don’t get results about the site, but if you Google “Cuil” you do ?!?!

Not a good first showing.

http://www.apsquared.net/blog/2008/07/29/cuil-no-self-respsect/

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:11:13 +0000

The black background is the only cuil thing about the site. My experence reviewed at http://www.alexheaton.com/2008/07/cuil-worst-search-engine-in-western.html.

By: Haroun

Haroun — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:48:30 +0000

Cuil’s lanuch made a lot of useless noise.

Read my article http://net-insider.blogspot.com/2008/07/cuil-net-savior.html

By: Rurik

Rurik — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:58:21 +0000

How pathetic — kudos to their PR people for drumming up so much press with NO basis (whoever said that journalists are gullible, ignorant and lazy…). But Cuil couldn’t even find basic useful information. I searched ‘hosted Microsoft Exchange’ which should have returned ‘Intermedia’ (my old company), the largest hosted Exchange provider. Not on the first page. Google has it at #1 and #2. Just another illustration of how Google’s tech and money leaves everyone else in the dust — and too late to catch up in the current search paradigm.

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:48:09 +0000

You have GOT to be kidding … it’s awful … if you are going to march out your “search engine” as the next greatest thing, you better be ready to GO day #1 … even “simple” searches did not return anything useful … Won’t bother going back anytime soon … SORRY investors … looks like $33 million wasted …

By: Nigeriansummit

Nigeriansummit — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:48:14 +0000

Google will destroy this search engine is a blink of an eye. I went to the site and it didn’t work for me. I believe too much traffic brought it down.

By: A Strange Web

A Strange Web — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:09:01 +0000

I guess checking out Cuil is the thing to do today. I cannot even get to the site to see what all the hype is (not) about.

By: roger

roger — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:18:14 +0000

a bad joke

By: Pretentious

Pretentious — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:15:32 +0000

i did a test of my own, using the search word “porn”. cuil gave me over 1 billion results, where google a more flaccid 236,000,000. i know which search engine i’m using.

By: Robert Snell

Robert Snell — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:05:35 +0000

Cuil in its current state is terrible. As I said on my blog; I give Cuil.com a big two thumbs down, for poor localization, speed, inability to sort and present the data they have collected and for way too much hype around a sub standard service. If your trying to get people to switch then presenting a half as_ed product wont do it for you.

By: Chris Desouza

Chris Desouza — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:27:26 +0000

So much money being wasted on futile attempts. What is hidden from us that we need so many search utilities.

Perhaps we need a search engine which can help us find ourselves.

Cuil – A little too late in the search party, don’t you think?

By: Sung

Sung — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:07:50 +0000

That site is …
Ok. What’s with the black background. Is that supposed to be chique or something?

A quick comparison: I ran a search for “China Gordon”, a nickname for a historical Brit I heard about on NPR this morning. The “cool” site dug up nothing but useless links on China. Not that they were bat, but had nothing do to with my search. A search on Google, and the first link I got was the Wikipedia link on the correct guy. The next two link were also relevant.

So I clicked on the “Safe Search is On” link … and got a 404 error. Wow. Good rollout guys!! A second try at the link after another search and it worked fine. However, …. first impressions are hard to overcome.

I think the wheel worked just fine already.

By: diem

diem — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:03:48 +0000

Cuil = terrible. Nothing I have shows up at all….

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:54:47 +0000

tried to search ‘nuclear power’, no results. ‘nuclear’ brings no results, suggests its a typo. Engine is not ready for deployment. This attention isn’t going to last if the engine doesn’t work. I am thinking this is just a way to make money of microsoft’s determination to gain search marketshare regardless of cost or sense.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:49:07 +0000

Went there and ran a test search for “Charlottesville dining” – the first entry’s text example is the words “Charlottesville Dining” repeated 300 times (shouldn’t that be in “How to design a search engine 101 — the Dont’s”?), and the link tried to install “antivirus” items on my machine.

Not cuil…

By: Culio

Culio — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:58 +0000

You hit on just a few points but otherwise it really is useless – you would think that there would have been a beta version to work out some of the obvious kinks and that it would return results in a usable format…so where was google weak? it didn’t index enough sites – ok so why redo the entire format into something useless users won’t quickly adapt to?

and why doesn’t my blog show up? it shows up in every other search engine…and i can’t change preferences of what i want to see? this is a joke coming from two ex googlers…horrible way to kick off but somehow they got lots of publicity…