Posted by Rahul in search
Cuil a new search engine is unveiled today, 28th July 2008 which claims to be more powerful than even the big daddy, Google. The claim can turn out to be real, if not today but sometime down the line as it is created by a startup started by ex-Google employees.
More about what I found using it.
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I found Cuil's results weren't too good when it came to ranking the most relevant results first. It can be very quirky too.
I searched for my name and it returned ZERO results. Google has 10,000 or 2.7 million if I don't put my name in quotes.
Then there are the images it puts next to each result. A nice idea but lots of images aren't even from the site that they're placed against, and some are totally irrelevant.
You can't even do a search just for your country. I'm not interested in clubs, events, or retailers 3000 miles away! I'm wondering if the Cuil founders had their eyes shut for all that time they were working at Google! Hopefully it will improve over the next few months.
not that all impressed to be honest.
searched for: coldfusion critter
results: 0
searched for: critter coldfusion
and got results...
*shrug*
ya Gary, even I was wondering the relevance of pictures against search results & even a few results which didn't seemed to be linked correctly.
I really believe Cuil has a looong way to go before it can come any near to Google.
I tried it and it didn't find a bunch of terms. It would find sites that were generic, but was lacking when it got specific. That being said, I hope they improve and open up some more competition in the market. :)
I thought it was very poor, particularly on UK sites.
For instances, I have a site about our cats, which has a page about Drumknott, a black Bengal.
A search for "drumknott bengal" brought nothing, although "drumknott black" brought up that page. It opens with "Drumknott is a black Bengal"
Not impressed.
Oh, honey, am I disappointed! I did a google search under "translate Italian menu items" and among the first three results were two that gave me exactly what I needed, the first being a dictionary of Italian food terms categorized by appetizers, soups and pastas, meats, cheeses, desserts, etc.
I Cuil'd it and got "no results" then Cuil'd it using "translate italian menu" and got a bunch of results that were totally unusable unless I wanted to enter terms word by word by word for an italian translation, and I can't think up the literally thousands of food terms and then wait for each translation.
Google has nothing to worry about at this point in time. I was really looking forward to Cuil, too. But as the saying goes, "searching isn't finding."
well I tested cuil a while and it looks really nice, but that´s it. there far to less search results for keywords google finds over 2mil sites cuil has 4000. hmmm... I would say, nice Idea, but still a long way to go for the guys.
