Comments on: Cuil from ex-Google engineer http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080728/cuil-from-ex-google-engineer/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:02:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Karlonia - Cuil Search Engine http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080728/cuil-from-ex-google-engineer/comment-page-1/#comment-345233 Karlonia - Cuil Search Engine Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:56:49 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=15705#comment-345233 Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two - many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil's claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine. In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall. Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two – many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil’s claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.

In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.

]]> By: JEmlay http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080728/cuil-from-ex-google-engineer/comment-page-1/#comment-344399 JEmlay Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:41:45 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=15705#comment-344399 This is a joke right? I have a coupon for Pick Up Stix (well known chinese food) on my desk so it's the first thing I searched for: We didn’t find any results for “pick up stix” LAME! Then I searched for swingline.... after 40 seconds it's still searching. Plus, the name is horrible. It's pronounced COOL but it certainly isn't spelled as such. Which means you have to spell it for everyone ALL THE TIME. Dumb.... This is a joke right? I have a coupon for Pick Up Stix (well known chinese food) on my desk so it’s the first thing I searched for:

We didn’t find any results for “pick up stix”

LAME! Then I searched for swingline…. after 40 seconds it’s still searching.

Plus, the name is horrible. It’s pronounced COOL but it certainly isn’t spelled as such. Which means you have to spell it for everyone ALL THE TIME.

Dumb….

]]>