New Search Engine - Cuil.com
I was reading through cnn.com this morning and one of the main articles on the home page was the release of a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced: "cool").
Cuil was created by former google engineers that wanted to make searching the web better and more valuable for the user.
After searching a couple of keyword phrases at Cuil.com there are some very unique features.
First is that the results run left to right more like a magazine. Most of the results have a paragraph and a picture associated with them.
Second was the fact that there wasn’t any advertisements on the search results page. Right now that’s great for the user, much less clutter…but I wonder how long this will last when the creators of Cuil want to start making money. Will they fall into the "pay per click" add strategy that google uses? Or will they come up with some other unique way to create revenue but at the same time making the user’s search valuable and making the ad relevant to the search.
The last feature (well I guess it’s a statement) is that Cuil.com claims they have indexed more website pages than google, which is a very bold statement. The more websites you can search the better results you’re going to generate for a user’s search.
Next time you’re going to search for something maybe give Cuil.com a try, I’m already hooked on it…I think you’ll like it as well.
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jeff Wagner
Filed under: content, internet, search, seo
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Seems pretty kewl to me :0)
I heard about it on the news the other day. I like the unique layout as well. I have had issues with errors. The message says that the servers are overloaded. I guess they need to beef up their sever capabilities.
Thanks for commenting Chris and Natalie. You’re right about the issues their experiencing Chris…I’ve read that their servers are getting overloaded with users.
You’d think that ex-google employees would’ve been prepared for an extremely high amount of traffic to hit their engine. Especially with the marketing coverage their getting, they had to know cnn was gonna write a brief on them.
Sure hope their service becomes more stable or their gonna get left behind in a hurry.