Cuil - search engine built by ex-Google scientist
First of all, why why why? Why do we still need so many variances of search engines? Isn’t it the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN) are more than enough to cater for our searches. Today, the information scattered around over the Internet has overflown, they’re simply too much.
We want better search results? I personally feel that Google does the best, with its very simple user interface, and search results are highly relevant, although many claim that Google’s search results are now floated with blog posts. Google determines the position of a search result by the website’s or the page’s pagerank. And pagerank is determined by how many incoming links to a website or web page. Yeah, it’s reasonable that the search result shows higher position if that website or web page has more incoming links, which stand for the genuity, originality and higher relevancy of what the user searches. But due to recent years, many people are making spamming links, some spamming pages can be made with high pagerank too, before it’s been detected by the big G.
Well, we’re not to talk about how big G does it. It’s done pretty nice since its launch back in 1998. We’re here to talk about the Cuil (pronounced as “cool”), a search engine that was launched by an ex Google scientist. Yeah, this search engine seems to have their own search index database. As when I perform a search, it shows very low similarity to search results provided by any of the big three. Meaning it shouldn’t be a wrapper of any of these three. The search results are organized in a 3-column manner, which the left most two columns are showing the returned search results. And the right column occasionally lists some relevant categories for the user to explore more.
The “Explore By Category” shows some funs, when you have your mouse over, which will expand the categories for you to further click each of them. Personally, I don’t like the way it organizes its search results. According to CNET, Cuil had a bad launch, which was complained with glitches and weird, incomplete, missing search results. According to CNET’s talk with Cuil VP of communications Vince Sollitto about the launch issues. CEO Tom Costello was “busy putting out fires,” Sollitto said.
Sollitto said there were two issues affecting Cuil search quality currently. First, he said, “We are trying to give people different results.” Cuil is pitched as an alternative to traditional search engines, and users should not expect the results to be the same.
Personally, I’m same with the rest, I ain’t like how it organizes the search results. Yeah, I know, we properly shall appreciate that they’ve been striving to provide better and different search results. Look, when I searched for “USB Magic Jack“, and I clicked on the one of the returned results, it showed me PAGE NOT FOUND! It sucks. Although PAGE NOT FOUND is not to blame Curl, it shall be the responsibility of the website itself. But I think, Curl somehow must have intelligence built-in to detect and not to show a search result that points to a page which returns the code 404!
More bad talk about Cuil is found here. It says Cuil sucks!
Tags: search engine