New Search Engine 3x as big as Google

[MacsRgr8]

cuil - "bmw" - 57,000,000
google - "bmw" - 308,000,000

cuil - "apple" - 83,200,000
google - "apple" - 561,000,000

hmmmmm. I think not.

I like your queries...

 

[sushi]

Don't like the name though; "Oh I'll just cuil it." not as easy on the ear as Googling it somehow.

Name recognition is important. Just look at Xerox, or as most spell it and say it, Zerox.

I agree that Google has a nice ring to it.

Hey, did you hear about xyz? Nope. Well just Google it.

No joy for me.. and black websites look terrible.

Agree.

Although they say the name is "Gaelic", I'm pretty sure it's not! Having learnt Irish in school, I've never heard of it, and I had a quick check on an online dictionary with no results!

Maybe you studied a different version of Irish.

 

[angelneo]

Cuil has a LONG way to go to impress me. First, a sample of search results:

• Results from a search for "cuil":
  Cuil: 121,578 Google: 643,000
  
• Results from a search for "google":
  Cuil: 172,000 Google: 2,740,000,000
  
• Results from a search for "apple":
  Cuil: 83,200,000 Google: 570,000,000
  
• Results from a search for "macbook pro":
  Cuil: 1,400,000 Google: 21,500,000

Actually, my personal view is that all these numbers mean nothing, there is no way we can verify the numbers google or cuil or any search engine churn out. We don't even have any idea what's their search criteria is.

 

[pseudobrit]

Unfortunately, that doesn't really matter so much. It will likely confuse users. When I first saw it, I thought it was pronounced "kweel".

Ease of pronunciation aside, Google is also misspelled.

 

[XnavxeMiyyep]

Ease of pronunciation aside, Google is also misspelled.

Right, and apparently Cuil is spelled correctly. That doesn't mean users won't get confused.

 

[KingYaba]

Cuil sounds pretty cool. I think I'll give it a go for the next week or two. Will set it as an additional homepage.

 

[taylorwilsdon]

The idea is nice, but there is just no way that they have more pages than google (as evidenced by sample searches in this thread) and my searches thus far have been VERY disappointing. I have done 10 or so searches and not one has found what I was looking for, where google got it on the first result.

There's a reason its #1 - they have billions of dollars and more processing power than most governments. They're doing something right.

edit - google also claims 1 trillion pages indexed. Seems to me that it beats the crap out of cuil.

 

[edesignuk]

Oooops.

In an attempt to upstage their former employer, a trio of ex-Googlers have launched a search engine of their own. They insist on calling it "Cuil" - pronounced "cool," apparently - and they say it "goes beyond today’s search techniques."

This includes flashing random pornography when you search for information about a Grenoble-based quantum computing researcher.

"Cuil gives users a richer display of results [such as] images to identify topics," reads the company's press release. And as loyal Reg reader Dr. Jonathan Grattage points out, he and his quantum research are identified with "little pictures of a US serviceman and a guy masturbating over some other poor sap":

The Register.

 

[DoFoT9]

i dont like it.

i tried searching my dofot9 name and i get 5290 on google, 294 on cuil.com.

i dont like the layout either, its very hard to use and i cant work it very good.

 

[netdog]

The results are crap.

Google remains king of the hill for now.

 

[sushi]

Big ... doesn't mean squat

Accuracy and availability -- those would be important.

Exactly!

I completely agree! As another example of why Cuil doesn't measure up, in a search for "Harley-Davidson Rocker C" (one of H-D's newest bikes), does Cuil not produce even ONE result from Harley's own website in the first 50+ results, where Google has Harley-Davidson.com as it's first sponsored result, with another non-sponsored result on the first page? This is only one example, but I find that not only does Cuil not produce nearly the number of relevant hits that Google does, most of the time, their results aren't as relevant to my search, as are Google results.

Agree.

Oooops.

They just need to tweak it a bit.

For some reason, the security setting on IE came to mind.

At one end, no porn pics, at the other end, every page. The user can set the porn pic setting that way. Ha ha.

Seriously, this issue is not good for them.

The results are crap.

Google remains king of the hill for now.

I would tend to agree.

Number of hits does not mean good hits. But answering your question via the search is the key. Seems like Google has the best technology available right now. Maybe Cuil will improve in the near future. Otherwise, they may be a flash in the pan company.

 

[stone315]

Not that the amount of results found to a query is all that relevant (it's accuracy that counts), but still, Cuil claims to have 121 billion pages indexed, they claim this is substantially more than Google. Yet I have yet to find a search query for which Cuil returns more results than Google, and that's with Cuil's safe search turned off and Google's turned on (can't turn google safe search off at work). That should give Cuil an advantage if it's indexes were as great as they claim.

I like the interface, but I agree, I haven't found any basis for their claim that they are the largest search engine on the internet. And mad props for the Malcolm McDowell avatar, by the way. I love that movie. The book's better, but then that's usually the case.

 

[needlnerdz]

quite interesting and sporadic how it decides to match images to their webpage counterparts. when searching my own name it found and listed my website, but put the mug of some strange strange man as a display for it.

on the similar note, check out what happens when you search for microsoft

- take a look at 'microsoft research home'

- a programmer being cheeky or its allll random?

 

[atlanticza]

The New Cuil Search Engine Sucks

Ouch!
"The New Cuil Search Engine Sucks" - from PC Magazines
If you are going to roll out a new search engine, please try to make one that has more going for it than a silly name and cheap, misleading PR.

 

[Shadow]

I agree with the other posters: Cuil sucks. The layout is rubbish, the results are crap, no image search (or any kind of search other than text) and the image helpers are crap (search for Apple, what does something that looks like Burger King have to do with the retail store?).

There is a reason why Google is #1.

 

[Eraserhead]

I just searched for my own domain, and it gave my software page (twice!) but not my actual website.