Comments on: Cuil might just be cool enough to become the Google-killer in search

By: edhardy622

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By: Social search product Aardvark: Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better » VentureBeat

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:56:27 +0000

[...] very different than the brouhaha of expectations crafted for search engines Cuil and Powerset. Why? Cuil wants to index more pages with better and more relevant results, and Powerset (which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $100 million) attempted to improve [...]

By: Search engine Cuil is valued at absurdly high level of $200M, despite flop » VentureBeat

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:27:24 +0000

[...] company, which hyped itself leading up to its launch two months ago, among other things boasting of a larger index of pages than Google, was met with very critical [...]

By: Cuil is cooling down - a month on! | Liberate Media - social media and online PR consultancy

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:39:57 +0000

[...] Cuil might just be cool enough to become the Google-killer in search [...]

By: tyneham

tyneham — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:20:37 +0000

Armchair critics unfairly compare Cuil with Google, Yahoo and MSN, etc. Cuil is a new startup, launched with $33m in August 2008. So, it is not in the same league as Google (startup January 1998) and Yahoo (startup 1993). Google still has less linked web pages compared with Yahoo. Both have W3C errors, but MSN has none. Google was the fifth biggest US outfit, and global brand #20 in 2007 when its stock market capitalization was $230 billion with annual revenue of $16 billion, $4 billion profits and 20,000 employees... Moreover, both Google and Yahoo suffer from Internet click fraud... read links here http://tyneham.wordpress.com, http://tyneham.blogspot.com

By: anthony

anthony — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:35:43 +0000

good luck Cuil..it seems interesting. will keep my eye on your progress. crawl these popular video clip sites and tv show sites; hulu.com, zoogatv.com and tidaltv.com

By: Reg_Crowder

Reg_Crowder — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:58:30 +0000

Hey, Cuil is interesting. I'm happy to see some fresh blood in this game.

What happens next? Dunno. Too early to tell. Like they say, "The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." I don't know what Google looked like the first day it popped up on the web. I'll bet it wasn't as good as it is now.

These things take time.

By the way, Cuil is NOT a Google killer. Google didn't kill Yahoo. (Yahoo didn't die.) Google didn't kill AltaVista. (AltaVista didn't die.) Google didn't kill Lycos. (Lycos didn't die.) And so on.

Technology companies kill themselves, from within. I don't know how or why it happens. But that is how it goes. So far, this year, Google doesn't seem to be in the mood to destroy itself. It is doing a pretty good job of doing a lot of useful things.

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By: mdangear

mdangear — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:05:05 +0000

The issue I see with Search like this is that keywords doesn't do it. Because the context and the purpose of a given search depend on who I am and where I am (intellectually) more than anything else, so ranking content based on how much time others have spent of the page or other statistical information will not work for me.
Unless I can register and the data can start applying to me (statistics on what I do, not everybody else), the search engine will never have enough context to be really relevant to me. This is why I like adding the human into the equation.
At the opposite end of this search spectrum, one company I like for example, which belongs to the “social media” paradigm is muchonbene: instant answers by people. Given critical mass, this is the killer search engine, powered by a crowd of live persons, a great concept you may be interested in for your review…

By: danny

danny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:32:00 +0000

excellent point about Cuil being missing in action from its search engine.

By: anna patterson | Together Dating

anna patterson | Together Dating — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:02:15 +0000

[...] is Hard". Nice quick read on the issues. …aicoder – http://aicoder.blogspot.com/|||Cuil might just be cool enough to become the Google-killer in searchCofounders Anna Patterson and Russell Power both helped create Google’s large search index [...]

By: anna patterson | Hope that tomorrow

anna patterson | Hope that tomorrow — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:52:34 +0000

By: Sachendra Yadav

Sachendra Yadav — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:09:25 +0000

I searched my name and the most relevant results like my blog or my linkedin profile were nowhere to be seen, instead it threw up not-so-relevant results like comments I had posted somewhere and a bookmarking site I used for a week and quit posting to 6 months ago.

Google become a phenomenon because it gave relevant results. I don’t understand why these ex-googlers are missing this simple point by miles?

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:02:55 +0000

That's what I noticed – they never allowed anyone to try the engine out before it is totally public. They obviously have a great PR team – Cuil received tons of positive reviews without anyone seeing it actually and them people had to publish new posts to explain that they were not actually happy about the product performance. Interesting move, I think, but does that really mean they were not even sure it would perform properly from the very beginning?

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:17:08 +0000

” … but this is not where the hot stuff is anymore, the world had moved …”

Hmm, I disagree pretty strongly with this. Then again, I'm still figuring out FriendFeed, so maybe I'm just a dinosaur …

By: mdangear

mdangear — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:58:16 +0000

I agree, no question that search is here to stay, but this is not where the hot stuff is anymore, the world had moved and while there is probably room for another search engine, this is not where I would spend my money these days…