Just tried out new search engine Cuil to see what all the fuss is about – the query string I entered: Photographic Wedding Invitations.
Here’s what Cuil comes up with:
So, not quite what you’d expect from Cuil, given their self-proclaimed status as “the world’s biggest search engine” then.
The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
So claims the blurb on the Cuil website, but their 121,617,892,992 indexed web pages don’t include any results for a search query Google returns 3,770,000 for (with one of my sites ranked No. 1 – at least when searching from my computer within Ireland 🙂 ).
Incidentally, Cuil also draws a blank for the search term Wedding Invitations Ireland, and putting in just Wedding Invitations takes and age before the SERPs are returned. Makes you wonder whether they’ve launched before they’re really ready.
Is Cuil a Google killer. Current evidence would suggest not!
So, for now at least, I’ll be sticking with the big G. And, thankfully for our wedding invitation business, I think so will the majority of the web-searching public.
Apart from cuil.com not loading at all at the moment, it takes ages to load for me.
I did a search for my own CMS product earlier and got some results, with bizarre completely unrelated pictures next to a couple of the results.
Ill be sticking with the big G too.
Yep. i got something similar.
http://www.carlknibbs.net/blog/2008/7/28/cuil-better-than-google.html
Well, I have a family website and a professional one. I am a published writer and my articles are everywhere – from the online edition Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald to the UK’s Cat World Magazine – however – according to Cuil – I simply do not exist.
I still feel amazed by this try outs to “kill” something that is working like a charm, this being Google search engine. This is just another example.