You may have heard about the recent launch of Cuil.com (pronouced “cool”) which is a new search engine contender. The buzz surrounding this new search engine has been intense. It’s launch was on the home page of CNN.com and just about everyone on the web was talking about the new site. So, is it worth the buzz? In short, no. The site pulls up results that are often barely relevant. For instance, a recent search for “Cuil” did not pull up anything related to the site! If you check Google for “cuil” you get the results you would expect, recent news items about the site and the site itself.
I did a little search for my side project MusicalFamilyTree.com and found the results amusing to say the least. Take a look at the picture below. Rest assured these images have nothing to do with the pages they link to and to my knowledge they have never even been on the site!
I did a little search for my side project MusicalFamilyTree.com and found the results amusing to say the least. Take a look at the picture below. Rest assured these images have nothing to do with the pages they link to and to my knowledge they have never even been on the site!
Actually I would hope that if there is something else that has to do with the world Cuil that it would come up before the search engine itself because it’d certainly be more necessary to know about while using the Cuil search engine.
However, a lot of searches that work intuitively through Google don’t work on Cuil. Such as, if you’re looking for information about the song Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, then if you type into Google Maps Yeah Song, then all the first stuff that comes up is what you need, but in Cuil if you type in Maps Yeah Song, then it’s completely unrelated.
“It’s launch was…” should be “Its launch was….”
Searching for PJ Christie on Cuil? You will find:
http://revver.com/video/243736/saucast-20040423/