None of my searches for specific things returned results sets that were useful to me. And the layout of the returned results is annoying as all get out. There should be an option for the layout style you’d want to see.

“Cuil is anything but.” Indeed.

Steve

In my research I found thousands of webmasters who experienced the same hyperactive spider robbing bandwidth/resources.

As a result of Cuill’s spider’s activity, thousands of sites requested to be removed from their spidering. Cuill obliged, possibly to the detriment of their SERPs.

1. Will these same webmasters want to be indexed by Cuill’s spider now? Doubtful.
2. Will this have an adverse affect on Cuill’s results? Absolutely.
3. Will Cuill remove the requested bans in order to improve their search results to keep their investors happy? It’s hard to say.

Know Conde Dooku from Stars Wars ? Here in Brazil, the translations turned his name to “Conde Dookan” because of that. The sound “dooku” sounds very bad.

There’s a reason Google and others haven’t deviated too much from the list-like results page form. It works. It’s worked in database search results LONG before web search engines (heck it works in print) and it still works now. It’s clean, simple and easy to scan. And when you’re searching for something, that’s what you want. To be sure, you can make design tweaks here and there, but to me this is the search equivalent of Cover Flow – pretty, but functionally worthless.

Let’s give this people a chance to prove their concept. After all, some competition is good for everyone… even for Google.

What Cuil has gone through over the past few days is essentially a stress-test of a very early Beta product. Cuil doesn’t even have its revenue system in place for cryin’ out loud! We’re the same age V–I can’t tell you how many times I ditched Google for AskJeeves, Mamma, or AltaVista when I was working on college papers back in the day. (Google made it easy–at that time, they offered hyperlinks to other search engines on its *main search page!*) Took years for its algorithms to be great.

And what was everyone expecting Cuil to be at launch? At the same level of Google? One of the fastest growing, most successful tech companies in history that reinvested much of its enormous profit into recruiting hundreds of the best programmers and IT professionals in the country to further develop Search and other services? Google is a monster.

Cuil’s a baby with potential to do some very neat things. I just think it would be wise to exercise some prudence in judgment and wait for the company to continue to invest in personnel and improve its programming to turn in some more relevant results. It’s only officially a few days old. Search is tough to polish.

Considering what’s happened over the past few days for Cuil, it’s essentially been a stress test on a very early Beta product that avalanched into way too many people passing early judgment. (It doesn’t even have its revenue system in place for crying out loud.)

What expectations did people *have* for this thing? Its launch stage to be on par with Google, a tech giant that’s had one of the biggest growth rates in tech history that’s reinvested its profits into recruiting hundreds of the nation’s best and brightest programmers/IT professionals? For perspective, Google used to have links to *other search engines* on its main page, years after public launch!

Give Cuil some time to sort out its bugs and recruit additional talent. I think we’d be doing a service to rationality to look at Cuil’s potential–*that’s* the direction the search engine will be approaching over time.

Then they go from a dark awful screen to a white screen with results splattered all over, sorry Cuil…

no go.

BTW, Veronica I just found out you existed a couple of days ago and everything I’ve found of you on the internet is awesome, keep up the good work.

-Theo

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/ (NSFW picture)

The ironic thing is that Google, purchased its search indexing algorithms from Anna Patterson the same developer as Cuil.

Yes, anything can get taken down by server load, but there are bigger issues than that going on.

CNN featured Cuil yesterday, and the anchors were laughing when a search for “George Washington” returned “no results”.

Ouch. that’s embarrassing.

On Google I find my homepage, my profiles on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, last.fm, deviantART, etc. and the rest are the pages I have commented on or stuff like my YouTube videos.

So I really don’t see Cuil as being anywhere near Google. It is simply too useless.

– Halfdan Reschat