Cuil takes on Google

4Aug2008 Filed under: Search Engine Author: Indra

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“Search 121,617,892,992 web pages” - That’s the one liner that caught my eyes when I found out about Cuil. Cuil is a brand new search engine developed by an ex Googlers, Anna Patterson.

Cuil

Anna is not on her own though, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineer, Russell Power and Louis Monier, they created Cuil which is trying to upstage Google. Cuil adopts a new way to search, produce a better result, and along the way, take a shot at the Gigantic Search Engine ever known, Google.

Cuil claims to produce better, far more accurate result than Google, since it uses a different page ranking system than what Google has. It is said that Cuil digs even deeper into websites, making sure it’s the most relevant to your search term, before serving it to you fresh from the web. And not only that, Cuil also provides pictures whenever possible, giving you a far better picture of what that particular websites is about.

But it is enough?

I tried Cuil to search a variety of topics from gaming, politics, entertainment, and day to day general web search. The results are pretty impressive, but not impressive enough to make me move away from Google. A few terms I searched doesn’t even yield any result at all (and I was looking for my favorite artist… bummer). Nevertheless, Cuil gives quite a performance for its first review. I’m looking forward for an interesting development in the near future.

Give Cuil a go, look for terms you are familiar with, and see how well Cuil performs. Which one would you go for? Google? or Cuil? Are you going to stick to “Google it up” or are you shifting to “Cuil it up”? Let us know in comments.

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11 Responses to “Cuil takes on Google”

fark.my
August 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am

Cuil takes on Google…

Google VS Cuil. Which one is your pick?…
tingtitlei
August 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

wow this post was just as useful as a transvestites dick. i think you could have just summed everything up to “theres a new search engine called Cuil with XXX features and XXX fallbacks”.

u phail.

oh and your “slide to post” comment button function is neither impressive nor original. pleasee
tingtitlei
August 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

this is a tech blog that asks for opinion. what the heck is the point of comment moderation? afraid of people like me?
WTJ
August 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

I tried both cuil and google, cuil doesn’t give me relevant results at all, google wins
Jason Geek
August 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Cuil has really cool interface. It looks as if like Ipod menu interface when u search. HOWEVER, it is nice to look at, suck to use.

I searched for my site. Whackonly. It gave irrelevant results. Well, needless to say, google gave me revelant results.

so..

Google 1 - 0 cuil
stratosg
August 4th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

i use and will use google… the way results are displayed in cuil are confusing and irrelevant…
Chris
August 5th, 2008 at 2:49 am

Cuil is definitely going for it, but it’s hard to imagine them doing anything but incremental changes to what Google’s done. And even that would take years of effort.

Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 2,000,000). It’s in alpha, but I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search
keeyit
August 5th, 2008 at 9:02 am

Another new search engine ? Google is my favourite still….
vickn3s
August 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

cuil is not cool at all…google is still the best…
anthony
August 6th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

thanks for this, i read of cuil in a newspaper article and forgot about it, but ur posting make me try it. i typed in my name and saw there were three other anthonywongs who are famous. and i like cuil’s way of putting summaries in 3 columns. easy to read them all. and i then typed in gametes69 and saw a great selection of posts i made in the past. v impressive, because usually google just throws up a mass of irrelevant stuff, indiscriminately, no matter how tenous the link. cuil selects it in order of importance and its 3 columns makes it easy to see them at once on one page. I shall use cuil from now on. and i predict they will beat google.
ColourfulWorld
August 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Tried Cuil, it has the potential of making it’s way to the charts of search engine portals. Nevertheless, google still wins currently with their astronomical server farm data.

I like the interface, saves up energy by appearing black so basically Cuil is more environmental friendly than Google. The way the results are displayed is creative but a little bit confusing. If they could allow AJAX functions for real time data modification of search results like major blogs, it will have a competitive edge against Google.

Haha, just submitted my sites to be indexed by Cuil. =p