Cuil - Google Rival from Ex Googlers

[Lare2]

Web Adrress: www.Cuil.com

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search

MENLO PARK, Calif.?July 28, 2008?Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today?s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

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The People Behind It[/Oh ... and the best part it's their privacy policy. Just give it a readad(Y)> (Y)

The Privacy Policy

Some quotes from the policy

.....We do not keep logs of our users? search activity....

....when you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies....

[PT 13]

wow looks amazing

[Cormier6083]

I don't care for it. I searched for a person and I got way off results. Hopefully it gets better.

[Sethos]

I don't like the way search results are presented :/

[sundayx Veteran]

Thumbs down for now.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Nothing appears in the search results in Safari on certain searches.

But I do like it. I'd use it if it were faster and worked properly. :p

[Lare2]

I don't care for it. I searched for a person and I got way off results. Hopefully it gets better.

Personally I'll give it some time since this is pretty new stuff. I still remember when Google was at that stage and Altavista was king of the hill.

I had a similar impression of Google on its beginning days. :D

[+John Teacake MVC]

Wow I like it. I love how the way they present the results

[Beastage]

Pointless , they should have joined Microsoft, google is dominating not with their qualities but with their power now.

[Cormier6083]

Pointless , they should have joined Microsoft, google is dominating not with their qualities but with their power now.

And the fact that it's pretty much standard wherever you go.

[Borbus]

I think it's a bit broken at the moment... Search for "neowin": http://www.cuil.com/search?q=neowin

What's with the pictures? Three completely unrelated pictures that do not appear on the web pages they link to.

[what]

They need a one column search result page. I hate both the two column and three column views...

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

Tried a comparison search for "HTML Doctypes" on both search engines.

Google's Top 5:

- HTML Validation: Choosing a DOCTYPE (htmlhelp.com)

- HTML DOCTYPE TAG (W3Schools.com)

- Recommended list of DTDs (W3.org)

- Choosing a DOCTYPE (Elizabethcastro.com

- HTML5 DOCTYPE (ejohn.org)

Cuil's Top 5:

- "Transitional Doctypes are Stupid"

- A page from a web page design quiz

- Why the style tag should exist in a page with the STRICT doctype

- List of Doctypes (maxdesign.com.au)

- Some tech support about some woman with a problem rendering web pages

The fact that not a single W3 webpage appears in the search results demonstrates to me that the search algorithm needs a hell of a lot of work! In fact, if I were looking for a list of HTML doctypes, The top result from Google would suffice, but the only even remotely relevant link in cuil's results is the fourth one.

Very disappointing.

[XerXis]

horrible search results, messy way of presenting them

no thanks

[Digitalx]

seems ok but no need to try fix something that isn't broken, google ftw.

[Shadow Dragon]

I like Google's minimalistic design, this seems a bit cluttered. The result were actually pretty good though.

[MrKuro]

i like the frontpage, but hate the cluttered results page .. plus the results arent as relevent or specific.

[Fourjays Veteran]

Don't like the result presentation, as others have said. Front page nice though.

I also found it's results to be pretty poor. Typed in the titles of several sites and none of them were even present in the results! Google always gets them as the first result. Even the ones that have existed no more than a week or two, amazingly.

[th3rEsa]

IMO anything is better than the AdSense-powered Google crap, providing paid search results and such crap...

Cuil, however, should provide an option to display more than 10 results per page, I would happily use it then...

[Lare2]

:shifty: I Found Neobond's dirty secret with it Click If You Dare Only

Just searched for Neobon and right there in the page :rofl:

PS Should I Put a NSFW tag on the link ......lol

[CoolCatBad]

Crap search engine, but so are most of them, including Google.

[Luis.A]

I actually like the results page.The interface is clean and organized. I can see me using it more and more. Opposite to google, Cuil actually takes the pain away from searching, it's a little more FUN i guess.

[tiagosilva29]

I like Google's minimalistic design, this seems a bit cluttered.

It reminds me a bit of the recent iSomethings...

Google actually retrieves stuff on hummus, while Cuil doesn't.

[Rudy]

i like the frontpage, but hate the cluttered results page .. plus the results arent as relevent or specific.

that's exactly what i was going to post :p

[Piepke]

Still needs a lot of twekaing but I can see something useful in this approach... I'll keep it in my favorites for now.