New Search Engine - Cuil.com ( meaning Knowledge)
Whew…
Wow. That was intense. Looking back at the first 48 hours since launch, it was quite an experience. After a lot of hard work, we were thrilled to begin offering our new approach to search. We were even more thrilled with the interest, and traffic, we received.
In fact, it was overwhelming—literally. While we had planned for a large number of searches on our first day, we hadn’t planned on more than 50 million. After all, that’s in the same ballpark as Microsoft’s Live Search and approaching Yahoo!. And they have a bit more infrastructure than our small start-up.
So for a good part of the first day, the traffic volume simply outstripped our ability to respond. Some machines failed. Some bugs were found. Some of our redundancies…weren’t so redundant. This meant some searches didn’t get the best results. Some didn’t get any.
And yet, for a lot of searches, Cuil did provide users with new results, different from the ones folks have gotten in the past, according to the reports we’ve received. This is one of our goals—to give people an alternative to existing approaches.
Above is from Cuil’s Announcement page.
There is already a lot of fuss about new search engine Cuil but my personal experience is not that positive. Though i like Cuil’s philosophy and overall look and feel . I am not happy with the search results which is what cuil is primarily focussed . A search for Hem Acharya in cuil returns no result of my page www.hem.com.np the first result is a proxy site what that hell. I wish cuil will present better results in coming days . I wish Cuil good luck.
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Navin From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on 
Windows Vista on 05. August 2008 at 9:43 am
Ha ha ha ha, you are right. Cuil came to light right here in CA and when I checked their portal, I was utterly dismayed. I was just ready to make a post bout them.. but their ‘Cuil’ performance discouraged me. I even managed to send them mail but they never returned reply. (here is my mail for them)
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o feedback@cuil.com
date Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:48 PM
subject Hi there
mailed-by gmail.com
hide details Jul 31 (4 days ago)
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I think you guys are way bragging than you really should. I tried searching on couple of sites that I visit, which is more than a year old and it didn’t even show a word anywhere on the page. First tried with the related keywords, I gave up, and I started with with the exact phrase of the domain name itself, to my dismay, it still didn’t show up anything..
I think Google has got the blazingly fastest crawler to index every new page or domain popping up every seconds.. and your claim for indexing billions more pages than Google..?? that’s lame…
Sorry for this comment but that’s the reality and it bites. You guys still need lots of improvement to meet the unmatched supremacy of Googles searching ability.
Best of luck for your project
Navin
Admin
http://www.meroguff.com”
Regards
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Hem From 
(INDIA)
Wrote Using 
Internet Explorer 7.0 on 
Windows Vista on 06. August 2008 at 8:21 pm
Navin .. I agree with u.. Cuil has got too much hype .. it might have indexed most of the webpages but i seriously doubt on their Ranking system. I understand they are quite new.. lets see their performace in the coming times.
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chiefbutz From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 on 
Windows XP on 09. August 2008 at 10:40 am
Cuil isn’t too bad, but it still needs a lot of work. I am sticking with Google for now.
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Almir Bojkovic From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Windows Vista on 26. October 2008 at 8:00 am
I agree cuil does need a lo of work the only really cool thing about it is the interface appoach and does need a lot of work to make it efficent or have the ability to compete with Google
http://www.spreadingyourcashflow.com
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Ray From 
(UNITED STATES)
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 on 
Windows XP on 24. November 2008 at 9:06 am
My impression of cuil was that they are aligned with the type media guys. May be good for them but I find them worthless as a search engine.
Great topic!