New search engine - "Cuil" plans to "one up" Google

[draggar]

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/28/technology/cuil.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Interesting but will it take off?

 

[FuseFX]

Isn't it kind of weekly news? I have been hearing a new company come and proclaim to one-up google every single week -- but it never happens.

God I hope someone actually does -- Google is getting scary every single day.

 

[draggar]

True but..

Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.

It's not like they're some small upstart with no experience, Google bought their previous project and they reinvested that to make something better.

Edit: I just submitted all of my sites to them for a crawl.

 

[MrPJH]

I dont like the web2.0 and the whole layout thing. Also it seems filtered. just search for sex and the results are kinda unrelated...

 

[Seraphim]

Isn't it kind of weekly news? I have been hearing a new company come and proclaim to one-up google every single week -- but it never happens.

God I hope someone actually does -- Google is getting scary every single day.

I think MSN Live was the top washout with regard to "one upping Google". In fact that seemed to be their sole motto for a year plus. After a few beta flops, they eventually quit turning out press releases. I'm assuming this is ultimately what lead to Phase 2, "we must acquire Yahoo!".

Wasn't Jimmy Wales about to launch the "next Google", Wikia I believe it was called? Ouch, haven't heard news on that for about a full year now...

If you look at Google's blatant indifference towards search engine innovation, they are either really foolish, or well ahead technologically of any potential rival. My guess is the later.

Go ahead and call this era of the web the "log jam"...

 

[MrGoodhost]

Only thing I do not like about Cuil or Cuill -is that when they do crawl your site - it is a bandwidth hog. Unless things have changed in the last week or month - I've tried to block them from crawling. Search Google for the info.

 

[Seraphim]

Was just surfing around Cuil.com, man... lots of work still needed. The results are absolute garbage, and by that I mean completely worthless. Not sure why their home page is all off center? I don't give these folks much of a chance, though I'm sure they will still get rich selling the technology to Microsoft or Yahoo.

And the name... "Cuil"? As any domainer will tell you, that's one of the most God awful brand names I have come across in years. My first thought was "Kal-El"? WTF, Superman? It's pronounced "cool" I guess... A $33 million financial backing, and that's the best domain they could come up with. :uhoh:

 

[GAMEFINEST]

Name sucks, ujjy sounded better..

 

[Seraphim]

Name sucks, ujjy sounded better..

For sure. Cuil is smooth on the keyboard, but only if you can remember it.

 

[onlinetv]

Cuil are hogs, they have been for a while and got a place at Hogspotters

They took my site down in a couple minutes by jaming the bandwidth. A site with 10 visitors a day got hit with 200gig of requests. The article at Hotspotters has the IP's to block and the robot stuff.

My take is a bunch of fattened talkers that had too much granola and dried fruits. Their reasons for screwing website owners is that Google has been taking for years and they "deserve" to catch up fast. Site owners owe it to them to allow sucking all your blood in a few short minutes - in my case the sites were taken down for using too much bandwidth.

I may send them a bill since they have some 13 million more since May. Maybe they want a better name?

 

[FuseFX]

For the record my vanity search of "Lord Brar" led to some of the worst results I have ever got from a search engine. I would rank it a 2/10 -- and 2 because it is has a pretty cool interface / design.

 

[KaneCo]

i really have to say i like it for the looks of the search results but. But the sites it pulls are awful.

 

[Commerce]

Adding to the fun, they apparently ranked scrapper sites higher than the original content sites in more than a few cases.

Not cuil. But, fairly easy to address that in their algo. If content coming from a site newer than another with duplicate content and the newer site has privacy set on or obviously bogus whois data, odds are good the newer site is a scraper.

Minimally, if the older name also has content containing the older name URL (e.g., if the site URL is foo.tld and content of the site contains foo.tld), odds are better than very good it is the real source (Duh! Which is the real web content page? - "One of us!", "So, how much did you say these things cost?" - Will Smith, iRobot).

I too rather like the look (though the layout will take some getting used to)

cuil.

It has been pointed out in another forum that their brand name is only, apparently, a dyslexic event away from a porn site.

Which is of course, certainly not cuil and probably is going to be a problem

Let's see 33 million...
1 million to scan the web over 4 years.
7 million to get the next 25 million round funded.
Price when second round investors find out there is an easy typo porn site already in operation before their cuil launch and what those folks want to just go away... Priceless.

-Commerce

 

[draggar]

I think they have some potential but will never overtake Google, plus they have TONS of bugs to work out. Hopefully they get my sites indexed.