Cuil: a new approach on Search Engines
July 28th, 2008 | by mj |Mike Cane gives his considered opinion on Cuil, a new search engine which challenges Google immediately by having a black background!
Of course the first search item anyone uses to test out a search engine is a vanity search. Because we all know our online presence best.
Well this sucker splashed so much crap on the screen in such a random fashion — with many links actually pointing to nowhere — that I sat there agog.
I didn’t even bother trying another search time. Waste of time.
I thought, “yeah, can’t hurt.” So I check out Google to remind myself how many of us there are:
and compare to the Cuil results:
Right. That certainly is a new approach on Search Engines. Thanks to Mike for the inspiration.
7 Responses to “Cuil: a new approach on Search Engines”
By Robert McGovern on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply
Just don’t do what I did and swap the i & the l around. Leads to a porn site.
By mj on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply
You have the oddest hobbies, Robert.
By Mike Cane on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
By Andy on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply
It’s cause you left Safe Search on - any website on you surely isn’t for the minds of the innocent.
By Dave on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
Forget about a vanity search for yourself. How about them doing their own vanity search? I searched for cuil on cuil.com and didn’t get a hit for their website on the first page. cuil.com turns up their whois entry but nothing else to do with them. I wonder what testing they did do?
- Not trying to be “cruil”
By James Corbett on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
I can’t decide if that’s better or worse than the result I got for an ego search (with and aged imposter standing in for my mug-shot)
By Robert McGovern on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
Hey, blame the person that tweeted about cuil but didn’t provide a link