In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new search engine in town, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). In their own words:
“Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.”
So far the results are a bit disappointing. For example, the picture on the Cuil search result below is of me, but the text has nothing to do with me.
When I searched Cuil for Cuil I couldn’t find a reference to the search engine. When I searched Google for Cuil the first 5 entries were about the search engine.
I’m sure Cuil is working on refining their algorithm to provide better results. I’ll keep checking in with Cuil and comparing its usefulness to Google’s.
In my opinion, it’s only a matter of time before something better than Google search gets developed.
(PS Cuil people, if you’re listening, the display of Cuil on the iPhone needs a little work. The black bar that appears at the bottom of the web page is in the middle of the iPhone screen (when you scroll) and covers search results.)
Hello Steve!
I’m really glad about the question mark too – it would have been horrible to learn of my demise from a new search engine.
Ann
Hi, Ann,
Following this one, too, and agree that something/someone is going to out-Google Google.
I’m thankful that at least there is a question mark after the “Died” header:-)
Hi Benjamin!
I couldn’t agree more. I’d love to see Cuil be successful.
Ann
Hmm… Just tried it too… I get the same issues with http://www.cuil.com/search?q=benjamin+ellis
Must try harder Cuil, go to the back of the class and get your head down. I would like you to be good, I really would.