July 28, 2008

Cuil misses basic marks for me.
Cuil is a new challenger to Google and when I read about it Monday AM I checked it out. I liked the clean first page at www.cuil.com but that went away with the first search results. The search results are show in 3 column format which I find very hard to read. I based on my experience with my clients and how they prefer files and folders to be shown list or detail view Windows Explorer they have missed the mark. Second is on their pages describing product they use 10 point font. What is it with web designers today do they think everyone has perfect vision? Or every viewer of the web under 30? I can work with the small font but until the search results page gives me the option to view in list format I will not be using this service.

I've been trying Cuil at various points during the day and I have to say that I'm unimpressed so far. It's often extremely slow (probably being hammered on the first day) but the relevance of the results also seems to be very poor. In addition even simple searches such as "asp.net paths" and "sql server xml" initially returned no results for me but but eventually seemed to 'kick in'. Maybe this again is a performance issue but it serves to give a very poor impression of the search engine.

I also agree that the layout makes the results difficult to read.

I took a look at it and it doesn't look that good at all. I don't know if they are going to make it better (they should have launched a Beta version) but right now it is just another search engine with a strange and unfriendly design.

Unlike other contributors, I like the layout, maybe just because it's different, and I like the thumbnails next to the page descriptions.

The results I received, however, were horrible. Hopefully not due to a fundamental flaw in their algorithms. I had absolutely no interest in clicking on page 2 to see results, after the garbage I received on page 1. Not one single relevant site did I see. I'll try again some day.

When it comes to very specific, technical searching, Google trumps Cuil. For example, the search phrase "Navier Stokes Equations" returns 1,040,000 results in Google. Compare that to Cuil's pathetic 9,008.

I like the idea, but my web page is not in there!
Does anyone knows if there is any way to add a page on cuil? Or it doesn't like flash pages?

well, layout is not impressive, results are cool. my web sites are there, but if i try to search CUIL, sorry... no web page.

did they forgot to include or crowl themselve.

lets see, what they got

web specialist

Interesting..I type word "cuil" on Cuil to see the search quality, it was surprising to see the results..it searched a hell lot of things, but did not show anywhere "cuil.com" neither any results about cuil .. Strange !! Lot more work for you Cuil folks !

I'm really curious to know why several other sites are listed but with images from our site. In one case we are right at the top but instead of an image from our site all we have is an orange square with the keywords on it. However, 3 other sites on the first page do have images from our site.

For another keyphrase I found 7 of the top 10 listings were all the same site...and 7 of the top 10 images were from our site...and yet, even though we rank #1 on Google we were not listed.

Some of the cuil.com results do not show very relevant contet. I can only supect those are sponsored links that are mixed in with the natural results. Thanks for wasting my time by sneeking in the sponsored links like every other hack search engine.I'll stick with google whrerethey are not trying to trick me by cloaking sponsored links.

Cuil is definitely going for it, but it's hard to imagine them doing anything but incremental changes to what Google's done. And even that would take years of effort.

Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 500,000). It's in alpha, but I'd be curious to hear thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search

I have used Google for a long time now and Cuil or Cool is not a match. Of course I had to test it after all the media hype but like most of these it was about nothing. The accuracy of the hits are average and the layout is not really to the point. I guess there is a reason why people want the most popular result on the top. The more popular it is, the more likely it will be the answer to the search. Oh well, nice try! I stick with google.

VERY GOOD SEARCH ENGINE WITH DIFFERANCE I WISH CUIL TEAM ALL THE BEST IF THEY CHALANGE GOOGLE IT BIG THING IN ITSELF...ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY

I tried the results for most common keywords for my sites (major manufacturer) and got some mediocre results on one phrase and on others.... nothing. Nada. No results at all. Tried again today and encountered the same issues.

I also find it harder to read the results.

I'm not impressed. I'll stick with Google.

I wasn't impressed with Cuil. I don't like the way the results are displayed (three column format).

I read an article about me.dium on another site, I'll have to try it. The same site had a good article about another search engine, ubexact, but I haven't looked at the site yet.

I think the issue is people are to culturally conformed to been branded that they just don't understand how effective cuil is in it's searching. when things are done differently you have to think differently