Cuil - A First Look

About a week ago, I came across a BBC News article. This got my attention as it was called “Search site aims to rival Google”.

cuil homepage by danisgood on Zooomr

So, after reading this, I decided to check it out. I decided to search for “Techy Dan”. And, while looking at the results, I did find some relevant things, like some blog posts from Lockergnome. But what I didn’t find was my domain - which I am very surprised about.

cuil search for techy dan by danisgood on Zooomr

I was pleased about the layout of the search results; it was a better interface than others like Google and Yahoo.

But, comparing results. When i did the same search, but on Google, I got this.

google search for techy dan by danisgood on Zooomr Google’s interface is a lot more plain and simple, in my opinion. It had my domain at the top of the results, with the Lockergnome blog second.

Cuil has been getting a lot of hype lately, being a “Google Rival”. Lately, though, some people reviewing this have said other things about it.

Here are other people’s opinions on Cuil. Make your own mind up about what you think of it.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326741,00.asp

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cuil_good_but_not_good_enough.php

http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/28/cuil-not-so-cool/

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209901028

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/08/04/in_retrospect_the_pr_strategy_for_cuilcoms_launch_wasnt_so_cool/

So, what do you think of Cuil. Can you see yourself changing your default search engine to Cuil. Comment below, with your own views on this.

Thanks,

Danny

Also, I forgot to mention that when searching Cuil, it was very slow and I had to refresh the page to get my results.