New Search Engine Cuil, Google’s new challenger?
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After reading some articles from my reader, I was quite interesting about this new search engine named Cuil. Cuil is pronounced as “cool”, a new search engine which could be Google’s new challenger? should Google be concerned on this new search engine?
Cuil was founded in late 2006 and was released July 28, 2008. Its founder where a group of search engineer pioneers. Tom Costello and his wife Anna Patterson, the architect of Google’s TeraGoogle index of Web pages. The two were joined by by former Googlers Louis Monier and Russell Power, Monier who led the re-design of eBay’s search engine and was the founding chief technology office of AltaVista and BabelFish.
Cuil claims to have three times more than what Google covers and its display results seems to be like a magazine. But sad to say Google’s results are much more relevant and has provide more query results. When you search for “rhyan” Cuil search results has 87,000 plus while Google results reach up to 162,000 plus. With its top team of engineers with search experience Cuil could interesting but as Google’s new challenger? my answered will be “No” as of now.
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July 29th, 2008
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two - many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil’s claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.
In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Karlonia: I agree with you, there results are not good enough to compete with Google.