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:

Google Results for my name.

and compare to the Cuil results:

Cuil results for my name

Right. That certainly is a new approach on Search Engines. Thanks to Mike for the inspiration.

  1. 7 Responses to “Cuil: a new approach on Search Engines”

  2. 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.

  3. By mj on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply

    You have the oddest hobbies, Robert.

  4. By Mike Cane on Jul 28, 2008 | Reply

    ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

  5. 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.

  6. 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” ;)

  7. 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)

  8. By Robert McGovern on Jul 29, 2008 | Reply

    Hey, blame the person that tweeted about cuil but didn’t provide a link :)

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