Yesterday Monday July 27th, a brand new search engine developed by a husband and wife team called Cuil launched. Instead of ranking sites based on Google’s current “voting” algorithm (Pagerank). Cuil analyzes the content of web pages to divine their relevance to a search query.
Upon first impression the design looks great. It took me a little time to get used to the three column results display that Cuil uses, but after a while I started liking it more and more. The search engine seems really smart. I searched for “dane cook” and it pulled up “dane cook tickets” in the top navbar. It also pulled up “Stand up comedians” in the “explore by category”. Seems like some pretty intense programming to have it crawl pages and find what category a website. This must be one of the benfits of actually looking at the content of the site rather then focusing on inbound links.
After searching a while I was getting more and more errors saying “we didn’t find any results”. But those kinked will be worked out as time goes on. I really enjoy this new search engine. I wish it luck and hope it gets the attention of non-tech geeks like us. Im doing my part by blogging about them right meow.
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It does have a nice clean look. I think my most favorite part is the long descriptions they provide us.
Looks clean, but not sure if it will take off…
I like it a lot myself…I think that they need to break through some of those bugs. When they do, though, I do believe it’ll start to gain its respect. If all these bloggers are talking about it and CNN picked it up yesterday, we can expect it to grow pretty quick, I suppose.
Cuil is terrible.
5 out of every 10 search results is a spam page.
It needs major work to catch up to Google/Yahoo/MSN. Interesting design though.
There is a new search engine. The new visual search engine, it is only for kids.
http://www.aga-kids.com/