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It seems it is not only I who is completely disappointed with the over-hyped launch of Cuil, the so-called most powerful search engine likely to be a googleslayer or a powerful alternative search engine to Google.
Let alone be a googleslayer or a googlekiller, this search engine has turned to be a disaster search engine where the results as shown by Cuil is not only uninteresting, but Cuil is even pairing random images with sets of search results!
I could not find any trace of my blog on the relevant results for the keyword search “Enfotainer” out of the 13 results, but that’s nothing compared to the fact that Cuil doesn’t even show its homepage as the first search result if you search for the keyword “Cuil” in the search engine. I really find this hilarious!
It’s no wonder why Friendfeed founder and former Googler Paul Bucheit made a harsh comment on Cuil stating:
“Maybe Cuil isn’t supposed to be good. They must know that the results are bad, but they launched anyway. Maybe they aren’t trying to build a full search engine, but just want to demo their crawling+indexing technology with the expectation that someone will buy the company and plug in better ranking.”
It seems that now if Cuil doesn’t come up sooner to meet up the hype and expectations that it promised, it can start packing up its bag and get going!
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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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