Cuil; Not So Cool
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I came across a few articles about this new search engine that was created by former Google engineers. It’s called Cuil, and it’s supposedly supposed to revolutionize search. The About page really talks it up about how much more evolved their search engine is over the alternative.
So I figured, great! I’ll give it a try. My first search was for reset ipod nano. Instead of search results though, I get this error:
No results because of high load…
Due to excessive load, our servers didn’t return results. Please try your search again.
Wow! What a great advancement! Not only does it make you perform a search once, but several times before you get an actual result. Now that’s advanced!
Sorry, but if your engineers aren’t even smart enough to make the site usable when you’re getting massive hits from the press and news stations, you’re not smart enough to replace Google.
4 Comments
Matt McCarty
July 28th, 2008
at 6:18pm
I tried it and it worked well but for whatever reason Lockergnome blogs are not ranked high at all.
So people continue to use Google.
4four1ones
July 31st, 2008
at 2:08pm
Cuil has a long way to go before living up to their lofty promises. Like it or not, Google isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. Everyone just needs to accept that and move on.
I find that the UI and SERPS to be very annoying and full of spammy sites.
Cuil better cull out these crappy results and produce something with some umpfff, if they want this googler to jump ship. And for Gawd’s sakes please fix your SERP layout, its both annoying and stupid. It doesn’t make your revolutionary if you organize your SERPS in a magazine like fashion. It just sucks, plain and simple.
Now, I do give CUIL much credit for standing up to the Goliath of the search engine world. I just want it to be better….Let everyone know that it’s cool to search when you work out all your problems.
and that my friends, is how the cow at the cabbage,
@4four1ones
4four1ones
July 31st, 2008
at 2:15pm
(*correction to my post above - I hit submit by mistake before I had a chance to proof it….my post above has many errors)
Cuil has a long way to go before living up to their lofty promises. Like it or not, Google isn’t going anywhere, anytime soon. Everyone just needs to accept that and move on.
I find the SERPS to be both very annoying and full of spam
Cuil better cull out these crappy results and produce something with some umpfff, if they want this googler to jump ship. And for Gawd’s sakes, please fix your SERP layout it’s both annoying and stupid. It doesn’t make you revolutionary if you organize your SERPS in a magazine like fashion. It just makes it difficult for visitors to find the results that they desire.
Now, I do give CUIL much credit for standing up to the Goliath of the search engine world. I just want it to be better….Let everyone know that it’s cool to search when you work out all your problems.
and that my friends, is how the cow at the cabbage,
@4four1ones
ACEtone Studio
July 31st, 2008
at 10:30pm
check my blog post on this turkey:
http://acetonestudio.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-cuil-hoax.html