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.