Today brought the news of Cuil’s launch and I’m excited.
Cuil doesn’t have to be awesome, it just needs to be decent and disruptive. Google has been on top for a long time now and there is a need for some fresh change. The group of ex-Googlers that started Cuil are getting a ton of press with their launch and they obviously are getting a lot of traffic.
Cuil’s results were awful this morning, but they were experiencing an outage so must have been serving up spotty results. They’ve recovered nicely and things seem to be back up and running now. Cuil boasts that they are indexing 120 billion pages, 3 times more that Google. Thats great and all, but I really just want to see decent results. Google, though they are the top dog in search engines, still sucks quite a bit:
- Pages regularly take a few weeks to get indexed, sometimes longer.
- Result pages still proudly state they return 50,000 plus results for a normal search but, really, users are generally only interested in the first dozen or so.
- Results aren’t arranged in any particular order.
I’m hoping the press around Cuil will be a wake up call to Google. Let them fight it out, the true winner will be you and I, the searcher.
Long live Cuil (or whatever will drive some innovation in the search industry)!
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