Boy! this is Cuil! (But not for Google!)

RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
edited July 2008 in Science & Tech
www.Cuil.com, (pronounced COOL) is giving Google a run for its money in the search engine field. Staffed by a group of former G employees, they say they've got a better way to search the web...


I've been using Cuil for a couple days now, I have to say I do enjoy using the site more than Google. The page formatting is refreshingly different...

More info HERE

www.cuil.com

Comments

  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    giving Google a run for its money in the search engine field.
    "run for it's money"? :wtf: Or it purports that, as it gets the kinks worked out, it will rival its quality and breadth. Google is in no danger for the foreseeable future. Habits take years to change, not days, and the money they're running for isn't in search, it's in ads. The hype around this thing is crazy. It's like the Zune "giving the iPod a run for its money". Hardly. :p

    (btw, I'm not ragging on you, RADA. This is about what legions of pundits are saying right now)
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited July 2008
    Keebler wrote:
    "run for it's money"? :wtf: Or it purports that, as it gets the kinks worked out, it will rival its quality and breadth. Google is in no danger for the foreseeable future. Habits take years to change, not days, and the money they're running for isn't in search, it's in ads. The hype around this thing is crazy. It's like the Zune "giving the iPod a run for its money". Hardly. :p

    (btw, I'm not ragging on you, RADA. This is about what legions of pundits are saying right now)

    Keebs,

    yeah, that might have been a poor choice of words.....

    Should have been more like "wants to give Google a run for its:D money...
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    I know a lot of people are excited about Cuil, and maybe it will actually be cool one day. But not today, not for me. I know they claim to have 3 times the index that Google does, but I like not getting 20 pages of personal blogs when I search with Google. The results pages are certainly different, I'll give them that, but it just feels cluttered to me and so far I've had to dig to an average of page 4 to find what I'm looking for.

    Also, wtf is with pulling random images to be displayed next to results?

    Look here:

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Icrontic%20Forums&sl=long

    While we're at it, I searched for Icrontic and found nothing. I searched again 2 minutes later, after searching for Icrontic Forums, and got 33K results. It appears that while under heavy load, instead of just being slow like any other search engine ever, Cuil just fails.
    No results because of high load... Because of high load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again.

    I wish them luck, I truly do. If I haven't forgotten about them in 2 days I might try them again sometime.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Hey, Google wasn't an instant success overnight.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    I'll keep the G in my firefox search thx.
  • RADARADA Apple Valley, CA Member
    edited July 2008
    Buddy J wrote:
    I'll keep the G in my firefox search thx.

    I'm using both.

    Plan on giving Cuil a fighting chance to prove itself...

    This is a repeat of what I did when I switched from Excite and Dogpile search engines to the new upstart Google.....
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Dogpile is the heat!
  • PurplezArcticPurplezArctic
    edited July 2008
    Poopgle, anyone?

    Yes! I saw this last night on The Feed, looks like a pretty tool. I'll use the engine, but I am in no way leaving Google. Its teh <3 we hav.

    //edit// It's nice to see that Cuil is taking the direction of adding black to the index page, thus saving a lot of energy (if it is to ever become as popular as Google). Also, I would like to see them add some more preferences, preferably more customizable ones, no?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    I like the layout they have at cuil, I'll probably continue using it for now and see how it goes.
  • MrBillMrBill Missouri Member
    edited July 2008
    At first glance, it looks cuil. :) I don't think I'm a fan of the results going across and down versus just straight down, but I could probably get used to it.

    I do like the drop down after you input the third letter of what you're searching for. It will depend on how well the results meet the search criteria. Time will tell...
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