Comments on: Cuil is cool, but will it out-search Google?

By: Heather Dent

Heather Dent — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:33:23 +0000

Google is okay if you want to know every possible place to buy every possible item. So it's great for shopping.But this purpose should be a distant second to its primary purpose of searching out actual information on a topic. That was the original purpose it served and its capabilities in performing that pupose were mind-boggling. As a huge list of vendors it is not mind-boggling any more than the yellow pages of the telephone directory are mind- boggling.It has become a disappointingly mundane peddler. Let's hope tht Cuil can build itself up to the stature of the original google whose purpose was purer and more worthy.

By: Peter Wolchak

Peter Wolchak — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:53:54 +0000

I have to agree with both Tony and Simon. I may not be quite as critical of Google, but I do think change and a shake-up is a good idea. Dominance by one player in any space is a bad thing.

But I am also with Simon: Cuil doesn't really seem ready to play with the big kids. It feels like it was launched a month early, and would have benefited from both more indexing time and a few extra servers to handle the load on launch day.

Of course, there is a very interesting theory floating around that Cuil was never really intended to be a full-fledged, standalone search engine, but rather that the creators are simply putting out a proof of concept in the hope that someone (Microsoft likely) will like the technology enough to buy it.

Peter

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:51:54 +0000

Cuil has a long way to go – may of the results i found were from pages that hadn't been re-indexed in months. I also found the format frustrating, with no real advantage over Google or MSN's layout.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:58:52 +0000

Personally, I welcome a change. I find that google seems to be inserting more and more links to places where I can buy things related to my searches rather than find actual information. Google has become nothing more than a mass marketing whore, and I welcome a new search engine if it can do a decent search.

I didn't mind the old google ads along the sides, but now when I do a google search, the first 25 or so results are all from amazon.com, and various other vendors, and it's getting worse. I want a search engine, not a 'where can I buy stuff' search.

Face it, google is starting to suck, big time.

By: Drew Warren

Drew Warren — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:05:06 +0000

WOW just what the world needs is another search engine. It almost like someone saying This just in: Another Gaint Marketing Firm has your email address, please get ready for a whole lot of junk mail over the next 6 months.

By: don

don — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:36:19 +0000

not yet… google takes you places, the question is, can CUIL take you places Google can not… this remains to be seen but at first glimpse.. there is work to do

By: Peter Wolchak

Peter Wolchak — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:10:21 +0000

I agree completely Rem. And actually, this story has gotten more interesting in the 24 hours since my blog post. Cuil did not have a good launch -- the site was down, or slow or inaccurate for much of the day -- and it has been savaged by many reviewers.

However it does have some interesting features, and while I wouldn't rush to invest in the company it does seem that either Cuil will be successful or that it will prompt Google to add some interesting features. Probably the latter, but who knows?

Peter

By: rem

rem — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:39:33 +0000

will it out search google? i think not but change is good and it may force them to think differently and add new features

not so long ago people asked whether ask.com would out perform google and it clearly has not but google has tweaked their engine to adapt to the requests made by the other search engines