Cuil - Google Rival from Ex Googlers


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I'll give it room to grow. For example a search for "Microsoft" I expect to come up with the 1st result as Microsoft.com

Instead it's about 5th and even then the page title reads "QuickBASIC" as opposed to "Microsoft Corporation". Sure the other results are relevant, but Xbox, support.microsoft and office.microsoft should be bellow the top level microsoft.com in terms of relevance here.

I tried it out.

I love the start page, thats for sure, but when I seached, I think the search was a bit slow and I didnt like the way results was displayed. I would rather have them displayed in a simple matter such as Google, or atleast an OPTION for it. Its way to cluttered and can be a pain if you search for something and gets LOADS of results.

Addind it to bookmarks though to see how it goes.

its really crap, the search results are huge, they should take up only a small amount of room like on google, instead it has several paragraphs for each search result and forces an image, there are no options to customise the search engine to display only text and to make it shorter instead of a whole essay. Its just crap quite simply.

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New Search Engine Takes On Web Titan Google By Vowing To Index 120 Billion Pages

Monday July 28, 2008

CityNews.ca Staff

It's spelled "cuil", it's pronounced "cool" and it may have the folks at Google feeling hot under the collar.

It's a new search engine being unveiled on the Internet this week that could give the California giant a major run for its money. Other entities - including mighty Microsoft - have attempted to encroach on Google's web-leading territory before and met with mixed results.

Why should these people succeed where so many big moneyed competitors have failed? Cuil claims its innards allow it to search 121,617,892,992 - or more than 120 billion - web pages, estimated to be at least three times the size of Google's current capability, although there's no way to know for sure what the exact figures may be.

It was created by Anna Patterson - a former Google employee who perfected a previous search engine that was immediately purchased by the web giant itself.

And the upstart start-up also has the involvement of two former Google engineers, who have a clear insight into how the competitor works.

Why should you give it a try? The Cuil kids suggest their technology doesn't assess the quantity or quality of links on a page or measure simply web traffic to give you the best results. Instead, it finds out about the actual content on a page, although its creators won't divulge how it works.

It also presents them in a different format that isn't just vertical links on a page. Users get photos and sidebars that not only show you what you want, but also peripheral information that might be of use.

And this one may be another reason that's important to those concerned about web privacy - Cuil's creators say their database won't retain the search history of users or track their surfing habits - something Google does to allow them to target ads to those looking for something online.

The newcomer seems prepared to slog it out in the online wars to prove its point - it's being backed by $33 million in venture capital.

For now, Google doesn't seem too worried about the competition. It's conceding nothing and a company spokesperson insists the engine still searches the most pages. "Having great competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space," responds spokesperson Katie Watson. "It makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that."

There's a lot a stake as both companies rev their engines. Google started out as a college project and has become one of the biggest players on the Internet, branching out into email, photo software, maps, translation services and even purchasing YouTube. (See the entire list here.)

Can Cuil's Davids make things warm for this Goliath? Don't count on it, says one expert. "Search has become as much about branding as anything else," suggests analyst Allen Weiner. "I doubt (Cuil) will be keeping anyone at Google awake at night."

But creator Patterson begs to differ. "Google has looked pretty much the same for 10 years now," she points out, "and I can guarantee it will look the same a year from now."

And in the ever changing world of the Internet, she claims that's not 'cuil.'

Try Cuil here.

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I'll pass for now.

The Cuil kids suggest their technology doesn't assess the quantity or quality of links on a page or measure simply web traffic to give you the best results. Instead, it finds out about the actual content on a page, although its creators won't divulge how it works.

Interesting...I'd really like to know how that works, whether it'll spring up more relevant results or less.

I don't like how it lays out information though...it's hard for me too see straightaway what the order of relevance is.

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Haha what.

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Just tried it and it is really lame.

Searched for 'Dog'

First Search for 'Dog':

No results because of high load...

Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again.

Second Search for 'Dog':

No results found.

Time to upgrade their servers already. In hopes of even competing with Google, they need to handle the volume. LOL

No results because of high load...

Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again.

Hmm, I dunno.. I liked the front page. Looks very sleek, but the results themselves are too big, and the pictures that go with them are usually irrelevant. I like how Google has a separate "web" and "images" search.

The page navigation toolbar at the bottom is really annoying, makes my screen feel so small for something that I pretty much never use.

The random "Explore by category" box is a bit rubbish.. takes up so much space and they probably could put that stuff on the top tab bar, with a context menu that appears on mouse hover.

In the preferences I'd like to change the results per page, too.

I get to see 5 results, fully with an additional 3, but I can't see the full text that comes with it here. With Google, I can see 6 fully and 1 just about. It's pretty neck-and-neck, but Google's layout is so much easier to use since I just have to read things in one column

I think that this has a lot of potential, they just need to refine things a bit-specifically how the results are presented. There's just so much padding. I think I'm just too used to using Google to use any other search engine though.

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