Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Cuil.com just came out from ex-Google employees to improve the job to index the Internet.

So many more before them, have tried to become The Search engine and take away the customers from Google.

Looks like they are indexing more pages than Google does, however my second try I received this error:

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The first great feature from Google is they are always up. Will cuil.com accomplish that?

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Upon using it for one day I found Cuil very slow to display the results. As well the results are being shown in a datagrid instead of a list. The most scary part is that there are actually errors on the result, searching for my name, even egocentric is a good way to check results. A simple search found a blog post with this picture that is not in my blog post:

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Should Cuil add the beta sticker on top of their website?. Just changing my preference got me to see another exception:

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In my modest opinion, cuil.com may not be the search engine that replaces Google. We shall wait for the next one I guess.

Cheers

Al

Published Monday, July 28, 2008 11:27 PM by albertpascual
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Comments

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:54 AM by BCdotNET

You might wanna check your links, the first one goes to cuil*D*.com.

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:25 AM by Herman

I don't expect a starting search engine to be better than Google. A search for my own name returned no results at all.

However, I do like the style. They give a set of categories related to the subject. Google's search hasn't changed in ages, and I think they might want to add something similar if they don't want to lose visitors. On the other side something like that would probably have a severe impact on your hardware if you have as much visitors as Google.

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:03 AM by Mos

Are you giving up on it after one day? Considering Google's been around for a decade, maybe you should give it some time instead of dismissing it.

And your link is wrong.

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:46 AM by AndrewSeven

I don't understand the pictures, they are not relevant to the search result and they shouldn't be there.

Looks like a "built to flip" project.

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:31 AM by Sean

I gave it try, I did not like it. I always used Google, sometime I use onlyjust.net, its a Google search in a nice shape, just to make my day a little easier.

www.onlyjust.net

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:41 AM by Stephen

I've only managed to actually access Cuil once, every other time it just hangs. Can't understand why they banged on about how few servers they needed compared to Google if they can't cope with the traffic.

Don't like the GUI, don't like the horrendously slow speed, and the search results were useless. They should at the very least have made sure that it worked before all the hype.

I like Google, and I won't be revisiting Cuil.

# re: Cuil.com is here, is there room for an improved Google?

Friday, August 01, 2008 2:10 PM by Jérôme

Nice initiative from cuil. I like that!

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