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Webmaster Forum / General / Web Design / July 2008cuil - new search engine
Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next generation of search engine. My very limited tests have not been very promising. It seems to find the link to the site - not the site directly. I searched for funz and found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me.  SignatureTK http://wejuggle2.com/ Still Having a Ball > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former > google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a > site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. Too much eye candy. Just give me the results. >> Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former >> google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Too much eye candy. > Just give me the results. Interesting reaction - seem to have a 50/50 split with the folks here too. I love it, and to me the "feel" of it is nicer than google etc. But does it detract from the results? hmm, jury's out. Signaturex theSpaceGirl (miranda) http://www.northleithmill.com -.- Kammy has a new home: http://www.bitesizedjapan.com >>> Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former >>> google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > too. I love it, and to me the "feel" of it is nicer than google etc. > But does it detract from the results? hmm, jury's out. It's very much a personal preference thing. I can undrstand the mindset that says "The technology exists to make things shiny, so why not use it", but for me, a search engine is just a tool to get me from a blank browser window to my final destination. All I want is a list of relevant search returns served up to me in the fastest most efficient way. Similarly when I stop at motorway services, I don't want a mini shopping mall, amusement arcades, and classy restaurants. I just want a clean working toilet, a hot cup of coffee and a bacon roll. So to that end, I use roadside truck stops instead of the big services - they're a damn sight cheaper too. Perhaps I'm just set in my ways, and scared of change ;-) >Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google >designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a >site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. I like it. Just did a quick test, and it looked very easy to use, good sized returned data, clearly laid out. Yeah, that's cool. Matt -- The Probert Encyclopaedia - The Reliable Encyclopaedia http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google > designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a site which > refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. They claim to focus on 'relevance' - that site may talk about your domain name more than you do. The consensus on several forums seems to suggest that the over-touted launch was a total unmitigated disaster (almost as bad as mahalo.idiot). They also made the classic mistake of calling it cuil (pronounced "Quill"), while quill.com is owned (and wasted) by another company. They compounded this junior school error by telling people to pronounce it 'cool', while cool.com is owned (and wasted) by another company. D'oh! But it is early days, and even Google fans have conceded that it is innovative. Mind you, it was staretd by a bunch of ex-Google engineers! SignatureAndrew seo2seo.com sick-site-syndrome.com UK Residents: STOP THE "10p Tax Ripoff" Sign the petition to stop the government stealing from the very poorest tell your friends about this petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/10penceband/ > They claim to focus on 'relevance' - that site may talk about your domain > name more than you do. Sorry, I meant to say: "They claim to focus on 'context' - that site may talk about your domain name more than you do." I let the facts impose on the official story! SignatureAndrew seo2seo.com sick-site-syndrome.com UK Residents: STOP THE "10p Tax Ripoff" Sign the petition to stop the government stealing from the very poorest tell your friends about this petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/10penceband/ In message <6f8k07Fa3v3vU1@mid.individual.net>, Andrew Heenan <fire@will.com> writes >They also made the classic mistake of calling it cuil (pronounced "Quill"), >while quill.com is owned (and wasted) by another company. They compounded >this junior school error by telling people to pronounce it 'cool', while >cool.com is owned (and wasted) by another company. It's pronounced cuil because the people behind it have Northern Ireland connections and used a Gaelic name and that's how you pronounce it in Gaelic. See here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/northern_ireland_politics/7529029.stm SignatureCraig Cockburn ("coburn"). Director, Siliconglen.com Ltd Web project manager and Internet specialist. CITP. C.Eng http://www.siliconglen.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/siliconglen > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former > google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the > next generation of search engine. I did a search to find my own site. I don't appear to be listed, even though Google has me number 2. One thing I noticed is that most of the sites that were listed had a different site's logo next to them. When you click the logo, you don't go to the site that owns the logo. That is a little confusing. > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google > designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a > site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. The results that come back are kinda crappy I thought - searched for several of our commercial project and found many, many irrelevant Usenet and forum posts. I like the layout though - I guess if they actually make the search work properly (?) then it has promise. Signaturex theSpaceGirl (miranda) http://www.northleithmill.com -.- Kammy has a new home: http://www.bitesizedjapan.com > > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google > > designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > several of our commercial project and found many, many irrelevant Usenet > and forum posts. I performed 3 different searches and clicked through the first 3 or 4 pages of each and it kept bringing up mostly the same results with a few new results sprinkled in. That is an absurd search engine. John > Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former > google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > a click able link. The link goes to a site which refers to my site. > Seems rather odd to me. Frankly, I'm not that impressed. I just did a search for "NeonNero" (my online "identity"), and while flipping through the 23 pages of results (each page displaying 3 columns), I was unable to find my own blog website (which is at www.neonnero.com). Google found it on the first result page. The closest Cuil got, was a now (slightly) defunct page showing servers in the "NeonNero Network" (which, frankly, doesn't do much good), and an image gallery for my last attempt at attending a so-called LAN party during Easter 2006 (located at excite2006.neonnero.com). Oddly enough, it did find my "portal" website at kimandre.com, which also links to neonnero.com. Also, Cuil seems to have a big problem with HTML entities as well. The entry for kimandre.com is listed as "Kim Andr& Aker&" - the HTML source for my own website shows "Kim André Akerø". SignatureKim André Akerø - kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com (remove NOSPAM to contact me directly) > Frankly, I'm not that impressed. I just did a search for "NeonNero" (my > online "identity"), and while flipping through the 23 pages of results [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > so-called LAN party during Easter 2006 (located at > excite2006.neonnero.com). André Akerø". Must admit, searching for my non-spacegirl identities (which are equally outspoken at times, with several busy-ish blogs) resulted in nothing at all :s Signaturex theSpaceGirl (miranda) http://www.northleithmill.com -.- Kammy has a new home: http://www.bitesizedjapan.com >Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former google >designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the next [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a >site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. See what it found as reported in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/ The tests that I have done 'cuil' as being one of the worst engines I've tried. I also tried it a couple of days ago and it was inaccessible - presumably cleaning up the 'porn' issues reported above though the site said it was overloaded due to popularity. SignatureAnthonyL >Has anyone played with this at all? It was put out by some former >google designers - http://www.cuil.com/. It is highly touted as the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >found my site below but not as a click able link. The link goes to a >site which refers to my site. Seems rather odd to me. They have received over $25m in funding. I'm working on a better search engine which unlike cuil addresses areas that Google is poor at. It's already been reviewed by two industry experts, both of whom agree that this idea looks very promising. Any prospective investors out there interested in finding out more, please get in touch. Seeking approx $100,000 in first round financing. (check my LinkedIn profile to see that I'm actually likely to know what I'm talking about here) SignatureCraig Cockburn ("coburn"). Director, Siliconglen.com Ltd Web project manager and Internet specialist. CITP. C.Eng http://www.siliconglen.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/siliconglen |
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