Why I Will be Rooting for Cuil to Succeed
In case you haven’t looked at the front page of CNN.com or MSNBC.com, there is a new search engine in town. A former Google employee, Anna Patterson, has launched a search engine called Cuil (pronounced Cool) that apparently spans 120 billion websites (but they haven’t got to mine yet), three times the amount that Google crawls.
If you promise to return, you should check it out by clicking here. Don’t you really like the setup? I think it is very visually stimulating. It certainly is weird not seeing a wikipedia entry on the top of virtually every result. John Chow will be happy with this new search engine since he does show up as the number one result for his own name.
To get your site included at Cuil (like I had to do), you should visit their webmaster information page. This page seems to be going down frequently, probably because of all the traffic they are getting–but I can assure you it does exist. Once you are on this page, there is an email address you can use to contact Cuil and get your site listed.
Of course, I really don’t expect Cuil to be able to able to dominate Google and close them down within 2 years. For better or for worse, Google will always be synonymous with internet searching, just like Kleenex is to tissues and Q-tips are to cotton swabs. However, if Cuil can take some market share from Google, I think it would be a very positive event for the internet community. Only competition forces companies to “stay on their toes” and constantly improve. I feel Google needs this competition to avoid becoming stagnant and to force them to compete for customers. For instance, if Cuil is successful, perhaps Google would try harder to keep its current users. Maybe they would actually respond to a reconsideration request or two. Perhaps they would contact a legit blogger who only has one link to a “bad neighborhood” before punishing them. Okay, I am probably a little delusional here, but nevertheless, this blogger will be cheering Cuil on every step of the way.
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Cuil sucks right now, but I think it’ll be worth checking in on every few weeks to see how it’s going.
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I agree it would be nice to have a real alternative but Cuil is significantly worse than Yahoo, Ask and Live now (in my search attempts). I would like it to compete but so far it is not anything worth using.
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Cuil is certainly a work in progress, but remember that this is their first day. They got my attention by managing to get such great press.
I hope Cuil succeeds to. To the point of giving Google a run for the money. There is something exciting about new or improved technology; let’s hope that Cuil can bring that about successfully.
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I gave it a try the other day to see what all the fuss was all about but I wasn’t impressed. Google needs some competition but they are a hard act to follow. The only people I know who use a different search engine like Yahoo only do so because they like the portal and have set to the home page. And… The only people who I know who do that are not sophisticated enough to use RSS. I hope something comes along to challenge Google but I just don’t see it happening for a while.
Cuil was slow to recover queries and provided many non relevant results in it’s first launch day because they are different from Google (no s#$%). They use machines that will only index a certain category of pages. For example there is a sports machine and a medical machine and a technology news machine. If one is hit with too many queries than its overflow pushes to a machine that does not have the data indexed. Hence s@$&^ results. I mean they got something like 50 million queries on day one… that rivals live.com and is pushing towards Yahoo! numbers. Hope that helped out a little.
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Cuil promisses that will overcome Google, but this we only will with a few years.
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Unless the Campaign really kicks up a Knotch I can’t see this search engine regardless of size taking any market share.
Google are on Fire
MSN have a Secure brand
Yahoo! is a commercial success
Do we really need to open another door to search?