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Former Googleers unveil Cuil, a new search engine | U.S. | Reuters

MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) - A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

Cuil Inc (pronounced "cool") is offering a new search service at Cuil that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google, which boasts the largest online index.<snip>



Okay, so I read this and of course go straight to the site to search for my sites. First I tried keywords, no luck. So I search the exact addresses, still no luck. So how good could it be. Granted one site of mine has only been online a few months, but the other sites I'm involved with have been online over a year and are searchable on Google/Yahoo (though not some of the others like dogpile and ask). I wonder if like Google and Yahoo, you have to register with Cuil. If so, they sure don't seem to have a link to accomplish this. As a matter of fact their "about us" page goes to an error page.

What do y'all think. Do we need another search engine? Its getting like the phone books, of which I have no less than 4 different brands delivered to my door each year. None are really any better than any other, and having so many just means more places that vendors have to advertise in.

shuamort

Google is a verb now, it's gonna be a hard climb to beat that. I also searched for "cuil" on cuil.com and none of the responses listed the website.

Summerwind

Oh my, that's pretty telling. It one thing when MY sites don't show up, but when their own site doesn't. . . .

Binary_Digit

They're definitely experiencing some growing pains. Several of my searches earlier returned "no results because of high load" or some such error. With M$ trying to buy up Yahoo, I think it's good for another Google competitor to be up and coming. It sounds like they have some good search technology at the core

But even without these initial wrinkles, I still have the same complaint I have about Google and Yahoo - it ignores when you quote your search string for a literal comarison. The other day I was trying to remember a Unix VI command. I knew it started with ":v/" but I couldn't remember the rest. So I searched for ":v/" (with quotes), and Google decided to do me a favor by removing the special characters and giving me search results containing only "v", which was about as helpful as a lead balloon. So far I'm seeing that Cuil does the same thing...

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I tried this yesterday and it returned no results for any of my sites. One of them is the #2 site Google returned, three are #1 and another #3. Cuil returned none of them at all and yet they were all in the top 3 on a Google search. I can't see how Cuil is going to even come close to giving Google any competition whatsoever.

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