This is how much Cuil worth as of some website value estimator sites. Not accurate of course, but its fun to watch these numbers. http://www.websitevaluecalculator.com/ $111 http://directory.sootle.com/website-worth/ $60,763 http://www.dnscoop.com/ 36,773 http://www.urlappraisal.net/ $18,659
The fact is that google is the king and to beat the king you need something not just as good but far better! Cuil is far worse!
Presentation is definitely 'attractive' but its main problem is that its indexing capacity. It need to expand its index. But this is a understandable as they are new and indexing is a time-consuming task. So I guess we are too early to speak about it. Lets wait and watch.
Reg fee IMO. Once the investors realize they've been bilked. I swear, that is the most unimpressive site I've seen in a while. Most sites on here have a better design, and the results are pure junk. A search for my domain name gave ten nonexistent pages from other low-quality search engines. Mind you, this is a PR 4 site with plenty of inbounds. And what a stupid name.
It's worth millions, they have millions in VC funding and they have excellent crawling technology. But that doesn't mean it won't fail. Making the next search engine is like making the next eBay, it's near impossible.
I also tried on http://www.cubestat.com/www.cuil.com and it says $1,688.49. I think cuil is worth 0 if they can't get their act together and clean up their search results.
Its early days yet. They really need to produce better results and filter out a bit more of the junk sites. Funny to see the valuations though. What is their revenue model though? I don't see and adverts running which means no income. They can't keep going forever like that..
its a LLLL.com so its worth more then reg fee =) and the staff it has working on it and the investment and plans they have its worth a few 1000k