New Search Engine - Cuil
Both the New York Times and Joyce Valenza’s blog are talking about the new search engine Cuil (”cool”). Cuil, in Irish, means “knowledge.”
It claims to have three times the number of Web sites in its index compared to Google and to search a site not only for your keywords but for the relevancy. And unlike Google, the site does not collect data about your searches, which keeps privacy anxieties at bay.
Results are displayed in paragraph format in columns. I’m so used to Google’s short bursts of results that it is hard for my eyes to skim the paragraphs and columns quickly for the result I want.
I found that search results were a little more sluggish than on Google, perhaps because the Cuil result will put an image from the page result next to the excerpt (in my searches, the image was rarely relevant to the search terms).
I would love to hear what you think!
Image: cuil.com
July 29th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Not really too impressive. I searched for a site that I am active on and the results were, well, odd. It did bring up the home page as the top result but the image was not from anywhere on the site!? Most of the other results were actually from Kaboodle, and again, weird images. Perhaps they should just scrap that part of it?