New Search: Byte Me
I’m Sure you’ve seen a lot of the hype about cuil.com.
And, after trying it for about three seconds, I can safely say that’s all it is:hype.
Cuil is a new search engine. Cuil is supposed to be some welsh/Gaelic word for “Cool”. Created by ex-Google employees, it’s trying hard to be an anti-Google. Logging on gets you a black screen with a small search window, and a blurb stating Cuil will not save your personal information. So far so good.
The problem is, once you type something into the search box. Cuil advertises that they’ve indexed three times the pages as Google. I believe it, since only about a third of any responses will be any good. Typing even the simplest search terms in the box will give you some hilariously inappropriate web pages, and lots and lots of spam.
For example, typing in “byzantine roads” gives me the entrecard entry for this page, but not this page. Typing in “Steel Valley Outdoors”, my other site gives similar results, including lots of unrelated sccapers. Also, Cuil seems to find weird, semi-related thumbnails for it’s pages, but doesn’t quite get them right. Some lizard keeps showing up for “Steel Valley Smash.” It’s very Hunter Thompson: It’s sorta close, but not quite and makes me angry.
Typing in Google gives you, um google. so you can actually get something done. Good Luck. Try Cuil at your own risk.
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