Comments on: Is Cuil the new Google?

By: Lancement de Cuil, un futur Google-killer ? | motrech

Lancement de Cuil, un futur Google-killer ? | motrech — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:27:40 +0000

[...] Beaucoup en ont parlé, avant même son lancement, même Google, qui lui a consacré un article. Si Google y prête attention, pourquoi pas nous ? Ou plutôt, si Google s’y intéresse, [...]

By: bryanspondre

bryanspondre — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:50:59 +0000

Lance:- marketing folk were probably on a completely different planet – speaking as ex-engineer.

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:56:11 +0000

I wonder if the marketing folk were operating to a different timeline than the engineering folk and launched before the site was really ready.

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:55:33 +0000

The most important thing in search is the relevancy of the documents that are returned from a hit. The relevancy of their return hits for searches I had done there seems very low compared to Google .Cuil is worst than any of the current top 5 engine. Cuil wanted the hypes and they got it, even New York Times fell into this hype.

By: vizencox

vizencox — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:05:03 +0000

I typed in the search term in the seeming Cuil search engine….

By: vizencox

vizencox — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:04:14 +0000

It will be genuinely wise, if Cuil would think about what it should offer to the public, rather than extensively focus on beating Google in terms of functionality, size and all that statistical balderdash. Acc. to my estimates, I would say Google would still be at the top, and competitors have to probe more innovative methods to beat Google. However, I constantly remind them that beating Google shouldn’t be the primary focus.

PS: Yesterday, I just typed in a search term “science”, and there was apparently no result whatsoever. I tried so 3-4 times, and it gives me:

“No results because of high load…

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

That quite annoyed but other features of Cuil are impressive….Anyway, Google’s safe as long as it gives public what they want!

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:59:56 +0000

Mike – I can’t believe with that result you are not sticking with it.
Natalie – I understand that your blog comes back with most

and Bryan – I agree

By: Natalie Ferguson

Natalie Ferguson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:25:27 +0000

I think it is the best product EVER and I haven’t even been there! Look at my blog prominently displayed on your screenshot, these people clearly know their stuff!

By: Mike Riversdale

Mike Riversdale — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:27:52 +0000

I agree with Bryan – tried it (thanks for the link) but the results were well below par in the relevancy stakes.

For a search on myself (but of course) I got “Remington Love, Remington Romance at Matchmaker.com” which was (I think) 9th on the list … hmmm.

Sort of nice but, nah, not gonna do it for me.

By: Bryan Spondre

Bryan Spondre — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:15:01 +0000

Tried it. We”ll be back soon: not good enough.