Posted on 12/01/2008 9:56:17 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Cuil is a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and other top notch people from institutions like Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched on 28th July, 2008 and claims to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of Microsoft's. I have been following Cuil right from its birth and it surely has come a long way in case of accuracy and proper indexing of search results. So let us take a look at Cuil and decide if it can really be an alternative to Google.
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Is Cuil more freedom oriented and less Obama/China/oppression supporters like Google? Do the people at Cuil hate America like google?
I have been using Dogpile but it uses Google. My experience with Cuil is it is not as good as Google yet.
Cuil Search Engine: Google Competitor From Ex-Google Employee
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An ex-Google employee and her husband has taken on the task of creating a good competition for Google by the name cuil (pronounced cool). Cuil is a search engine with a difference.
First of all the results are presented in a grid layout with images and a short description. They claim to have indexed 121 billion pages on their website and promises to index more content than any other search engine (read Google).
Cuil claims to focus more on content analysis than content importance based on backlinks.
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I’ve tried Cuil a few times and ran it through it’s paces.
It was dead wrong on several search returns and actually put erroneous links and/or images with some results.
These folks are not yet ready for prime time.
I tried Dogpile and did not care for it..at all...so far it’s been largely Alta Vista and it is 85% as good as the gagggle fellas...only use them on extremely esoteric searches..
Ok, cuil is soon to be my home page.
Google and Youtube can kiss my butt. I just watch youtube to get free music videos anyway.
Cuil would have more potential if its founders had had the sense to choose a name that could readily enter the language as a verb, as “google” has. Suggesting to somebody “Why don’t you cool it?” has sufficient potential for misunderstanding that it will never enter common usage. We’ll more likely hear things like “Why don’t you try googling it with Cuil?” This is really a big handicap and makes me wonder how smart the founders really are, and by extrapolation, how good their product could ever be. I’d love to dump Google for an unbiased competitor, but not at the expense of valuable results.
Not to mention it’s not spelled the way it sounds. What were they thinking?
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In Gaelic the pronunciation is pretty close to English "cool.". As I recall when they announced the site they said the name was Gaelic, but then proceeded to give a false translation. The word means nook, corner, closet...
When I tried Cuil, I found it underwhelming to say the least. My impressions after using it for a bit was that it just did not do as well at finding relevant results. So far, I haven’t found anyone that could top Google for that.
I’ve tried it some and it has given me far more choices for my search than Google.
I like the short synopsis.
Using it more and more.
Good.
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