Comments on: Cuil Review (Search Engine)

By: Google Quietly Takes Ideas From Cuil

Google Quietly Takes Ideas From Cuil — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:39:46 +0000

[...] Ideas From CuilWritten by Jeff Weisbein on May 29, 20090 CommentsCuil, the search engine which launched last July, brought a few new ideas to the world of search including larger text descriptions, [...]

By: Yearly Checkup: Cuil | BestTechie.net

Yearly Checkup: Cuil | BestTechie.net — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:50:15 +0000

[...] on July 20, 2009 – 2:30 PMView commentsComments It has been nearly one year since we reviewed Cuil, the brand new search engine which launched in July 2008 that was said to be able to take on [...]

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:18:19 +0000

Ugh. So much wrong with it. The layout, the non-relevant results (still can’t find my own blog listed, even with five targeted search terms), and the name is juvenile. Reminds me of “kewl.” You can tell me all you want it’s pronounced “cool,” but that’s not what it looks like. This thing can’t go anywhere “as is.” Needs a major revamp already.

By: cadillacboogie

cadillacboogie — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:41:43 +0000

searched for “cuil review” on both, found this site through google.

By: miloko

miloko — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:29:05 +0000

Any chance this Cuil thingy could be a huge scam?

By: grizwald

grizwald — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:09:53 +0000

Well, I tried Cuil on the 29th. I was able to get onto Cuil faster than Google (due to server location), but the Cuil results are very irrelevant, and you can’t use operators like “AND”, “OR”, and “site:” in order to refine your results.

By: Fundoo

Fundoo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:09:58 +0000

Search “cuil review comments” There is no result for this search criteria.

By: Jeff Weisbein

Jeff Weisbein — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:33:54 +0000

Thanks for the comment K. It appears the results are getting worse and worse by the day. A quick search for besttechie now yields more irrelevant results than two days ago.

Not to mention, the descriptions are just as you said, a mish mash of text. Seems it’s getting worse, not better.

On a side note, did you see Yuil? It used Yahoo’s BOSS technology. However, they took it down earlier.

By: K

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:28:46 +0000

For some reason my reply left out this quote from the top of the page:

“I do like how they provide a bit more of a description than Google does, “

By: K

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:27:20 +0000

(I found this page via Google)

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Uh-huh. Shouldn’t even that though have some relevancy to the page?

After striking out trying to find something I was researching I decided to do a search where I knew what the results should be.

I did a search on a particular bench I make, and which comes out on the first page on a Google search. Not only didn’t the provided link(s) take me to my page, The photos were not from my page, and the description, a mish mash from multiple unrelated pages, had me being saved by Mr T from Michael Jackson’s glove!

A very big disappointment; what good is having access to all those pages if you cant even provide one relevant link to the users question.

Don’t worry about the name or layout, just get results and everyone will stop griping about the rest.