How cool is this new search engine - cuil.com ?

August 1st, 2008     by Salim Hemdani    

By now almost everyone who keeps an eye on search market is aware of the launch of new search engine - cuil.com. And to my amazement most of us have already given a verdict on this new offering as to if this is a real Google killer or just another dying hope for those Google haters. Cuil has also got a lot of attention from Google lovers - this launch was a real attention grabbing hoax.

So what makes cuil.com center of attention?

  • Cuil.com is developed by couple of engineers who have a hand in developing Goggle’s search engine. This particular fact has given them a lot of credibility. 
  • Secondly, this search engine indexes many more pages than Google does. I did not know that Google does not index the entire world’s web pages – may be cuil indexes pages from other planet’s ecosystem too but any how this fact makes cuil.com an attractive offering. More pages means more results .
  • Finally, last but not least and I think most important is that cuil.com does not remember your search queries – a big win for those privacy advocates who are trying to get Google for a long time now.

So what is your verdict of this cool or not so cool offering? I will share my first experience and for those who believe in “first impression is the last impression” I did not have a good experience. My first hit to cuil.com on the day it launched resulted in a service not available page (too many hopefuls flocking on to cuil.com). Since then service has been bought-up and I have given it few more tries but I could not make up my mind.

As of today Google is still the kind of search for me and I bow to thee. What you guys think?

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  1. 2 Responses to “How cool is this new search engine - cuil.com ?”

  2. By Nataliy on Aug 2, 2008 | Reply

    There is a new search engine. The new visual search engine, it is only for kids. :)
    http://www.aga-kids.com/

  3. By Salim Hemdani on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks Nataliy for this link. I love the idea of having a kids friendly search engine. I noticed some of the name brand kids sites do not show-up in search results. I would recommend seeding current results with those additional brand sites.

    Do you mind sharing information on how it is performing?

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