Cuil: Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
July 28, 2008
Stumble it!SAN FRANCISCO — In her two years at Google, Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company’s search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results.
The makers of the Cuil search engine say it should provide better results and show them in a more attractive manner.
Now, along with her husband, Tom Costello, and a few other Google alumni, she is trying to upstage her former employer.
On Monday, their company, Cuil, is unveiling a search engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google’s and that they hope will give its users more relevant results.
Cuil.com Is the new search engine, and I tested out with the keyword “googlelady” and it seems that my blog is not listed there but all “sign up” pages profile are there like Mybloglog, Sphinn, etc..
It seems that Cuil at this moment is not what they promise but I hope they will really be “Quality” results and not sites that are useless like profiles. Also there is something similar like what Google started showing how many pages it has indexed. On another hand, I don’t like the interface. What do you think about it? Share your opinions and suggestions. May be we will have a competitor.
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July 29th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I’d say ‘dont quit your day job’ but most of them already did! I found the interface completely counter intuitive and unnatural - 2 col v 3 col? no options for headlines only…how is their search ‘more’ relevant than the “G”?
hummmm……
signed
still a googler
July 30th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
“some of the formulas it uses for ranking search results”….but obviously not the ones that matter! In terms of relevancy Cuil is the worst search engine I think I’ve ever seen! I’m not even going to go into it associating the wrong images with the wrong domains as well.
I worked for a small startup 10 years ago that were writing a search engine that produced infinitely better results than that, the company went without a trace. If these weren’t ex Google exployees then this wouldn’t even be getting air time.
August 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hey,
I had heard of Cuil before reading your post, but didnt pay any notice to it at all. I have taken a look and quite like it so far. OK I only did a few searches, but was surprised to see two of my websites appear on the first page for their target key phrases
I assume that their results will be pretty similar to those of Google because of the same ‘brains’ behind some of the technology, which could account for similar results with my own sites.
Time will surely tell if this promising engine can make a dent in Google’s share of the search market, that is unless they are suddenly bought out by the likes of Google, Microsoft or Yahoo!
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 am
Just read some criticism about Cuil. Website’s slow response times, irrelevant or wrong search results. Cuil also criticized for its focus on search engine index size rather than relevance. Still have a lot to improve, IMHO.