Google Vs. Cuil - Is Cuil A Googleslayer?
Posted by: Manish in General, tags: Cuil - A New Massive Search Engine, Google, New Search Engine Cuil Aims At Google
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Cuil (pronounced as”cool”) is another power search engine that just went live today, July 28, 2008, with an index of over 120 billion web pages, making it arguably the most comprehensive and extensive search engine on the web!
This project was founded by highly respected search expert Anna Patterson with her husband Tom Costello, along with two ex-Google engineers, who believe Cuil is a giant leap forward from the technology that powers the Google search. As a start, Anna states it has an index of over 120 billion pages which far exceeds the current Google’s index total. (However Google does not disclose the size of their index.)
Cuil claims that they have found a means to massively reduce the cost and at the same time provide an extensive and comprehensive search of a keyword, which most arguably is claimed to be comparable with the search giant, Google.
The algorithm used by Cuil is also very different. Google ranks pages based on the links of a particular page; however, Cuil claims to rank pages based on the actual contents on the page, hence providing more relevant results.
I just compared Cuil and Google for various keywords like “United States Of America.” Cuil returned just 6 million results while Google returned 55.7 million results. After searching through various words on both search engines, I found out that Cuil is not even getting 10% of what Google gets! (and I find it disappointing that Cuil only returned 13 search results for my blog keyword “Enfotainer” compared to Google’s 5,310 search results), but hey, don’t you think we should also consider the fact that Cuil has just been out a while ago while Google has had years of advantage in creating a perfect search engine!
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I have been trying this out off-and-on. I am not sure how I like it yet. I do find the way it returns results interesting…this may be highly entertaining/informational for certain searches….much more interactive than Google. I have asked Cuil to crawl my blog.
Hmm..would you like to share how you asked Cuil to crawl your blog? I’d be more than happy to ask the same as well as very disappointingly Cuil is just showing 13 results for my blog keyword, Enfotainer!
Well, let’s wait and see, let’s also hope this new search engine will offer more advanced searching algorithms and results than any other search engines out there.
I have already checked it out and it really is no patch on Google. Google is plain and simple the king of online search and nothing comes close to it. Google’s success stems mainly from the fact that they give relevant results and unless someone else can come up with more relevant results I don’t see Google being replaced anytime soon.
Sorry Cuil, but you’re too late to the market place. Google is already made it’s way into the everyday language of almost everyone. Even my grandfather asks me if I will Google things for him online.
Additionally, I don’t like Cuil’s search layout
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Wow…I will have to see how my request for them to list my blog went.
I guess they’re all right. Google is so big that other search engines can not be seen on the picture. I’ve tried Cuil, it’s fast but its result is not that extensive compare to G ( my site is not visible on their results
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