Another Google Search Engine rival? Here is Cuil
July 28, 2008, Author: Cezar Renta
While THE search engine, Google, has little competition in this market, former Google employees are developing a brand new search engine with a stylish name, Cuil (pronounced “cool”). Cuil has a more Web 2.0 oriented interface and a styled result page (too much style if you ask me). The people behind Cuil are Anna Patterson, her husband Tom Costello and some other former Google engineers.
Taking a first look at this new born, we can see that actually it has no less than 121,617,892,992 web pages indexed, more than Yahoo and MSN Live. Cuil also promises us more relevant results than Google, but doing some searches, it turns out that Cuil is returnin some wierd results or no results at all for 2-4 word queries. How about those indexed pages? People are skeptical regarding Cuil, it’s not the first search engine that tries to compete with Google, looking back in history, we had some failled attempts.
Although this market is entirely dominted by Google ( over 60%, followed by Yahoo with less over 20% ), some analysts give Cuil great chances because of their founders experience at Google. Time will decide if Google will have a real competitor in this market, competition will always be appreciated within the community with or without any real success.
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3 Responses to “Another Google Search Engine rival? Here is Cuil”
@ Jul 28th, 2008, 3:53 pm
Actually the black front page may do well for them if they take off. Good contrast to the whiteness of Google.
Cuil is ok. Not as amazing as hyped up. I did a bit more research and wrote about it today on the blog, shortly after discovering it. They seem to over index and under deliver. I’m sure it’ll improve in time. $33 million in funding, with ex Google employees and a great concept.
But will it kill Google? lol… i v much doubt it!!
Vince (Hong Kong Wong)
BTW I also just wrote further thoughts on Cuil and some facts about the company here on my blog if interested:
http://hongkongwong.com/2008/07/the-cuil-google-killer-cuilcom/
@ Jul 28th, 2008, 10:36 pm
I think Cuil has some change against Google…at least I really hope so
It’s concept is good…stylish like you said, but I don’t know, it lacks Google’s simplicity if you ask me…visually speaking
@ Jul 28th, 2008, 10:39 pm
Nobody will beat Google that’s for sure, not Cuil, not Yahoo not MSN..best case scenario, if Cuil will get into this market as a real competitor, Google will buy it for sure
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