cuil.com is still young, and once upon a time Google was the underdog to sites such as Yahoo and Alta Vista (remember them?). Well, I'm not impressed with Cuil right now, but there is still a lot of room to grow and I will not say that Google is permanent, because nothing is. If Cuil is going to take more market share from Google they will have to work hard at it.
Google is like .com in the end user's mind. Not that it can't be beat, but it's so trusted that only Google can beat it self down at this point in time.
Well, they do have a nice layout and some smart people (ex. googlers) and $30 million+ is a LOT more than google started with.. I don't see why not!
This overhyped piece of junk has some very stupid JV money behind it. Get ready for the next round of investors with digital dollars in their eyes crying all the way to their broker as they lose their asses on weak concepts like this. Here comes another bubble...
You are all so "now" oriented. Give Cuil some time and maybe they can compete. Clearly they need to keep improving. Google was not built in a day and Cuil won't be either. The thing is that Google needs a competitor the internet community needs for them to have a legitimate competitor.
The thing is, this search engine is being hyped as a serious competitor to Google. Now, I use Google a hundred times a day. I have tried every other SE, and find, especially with "novelty" ones, that the search results give too much information and make it hard to see multiple listings. In other words, only useful if you plan to visit the top five results. What sucks about cuil.com (apart from the lame name) is that there is so much text from each site, you can only see the top five results. This is not going to change, this is the concept. Some people might like this, but I certainly don't, and I doubt most serious users of search will. It interferes with finding the site I'm actually seeking. I generally go 10-20 pages deep on some searches if I want to know everything about a service. The results themselves might improve, but why launch an obviously inferior contender before it is dressed to impress? Why throw all this hype at another crappy second-best? If it needs to improve still, why launch it to the deafening sound of all this fanfare? Answer: somebody thinks we're suckers. This is somebody's idea of a quick buck, and I personally intend to talk trash until my site ranks above directory listings of my site for searches of my name. And I HATE the name. Even cool.com would be stupid, but cuil is not brandable unless your market speaks Gaellic. This will never fly. Do see the video in my previous post, it is pure genius.
Some uppity ex-employees of Google have convinced about 30 million dollars of JV money that they can do a better job. Hey, pass me some of that over here...
It would be nice to see some competition for the big G but I dont really see it happening. I think it would take a couple big boy's like yahoo and msn to merge to be able to compete.
Actually, IMHO, it could be done, but not by throwing money and hype at it. What is needed is a new concept in search, something which addresses the weaknesses of Google and existing SE's. Google is not the best because it had the most money. It is the best because it had the smartest concept. In order to even approach Google as a SE, the algorithm would need to be more useful than Google's, delivering higher quality results more quickly and easily. This cuil doesn't come close, and would need a completely different concept to even be useful. I've seen some interesting attempts to take on Google (what was that one that rotates site snaps on a cube?), but this is just a clever scam. Revenge of the nerds! For those of you who missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
I dont think so..there is no chance.. I think guruji.com is the better search engine than cuil. it gives more accurate details than cuil..
Not a good start, their search result sucks: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=phpLD+templates Does not bring good result and giving same URL multiple times! They should invest more money to improve the algo and then come to live.