Those automatic analyzers worth nothing and CUI is too early to appraise...of course it costs millions...
Apparently people value it at slightly higher than you guys since investors have put 33 million into it http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cuil
cuil is absolutely awful. it's amazing to me that people spent that much money and came up with that crap.
yea too much talking makes them talk of the day so everyday we keep talking about em and they keep getting unique traffic so with time they are going to start getting something coolio. but with the traffic at hand, they are doing real good!
Dont you think Google was crap 10 years ago? Of course. It takes years for a search engine to improve accuracy.
I honestly don't get this search engine. If you index 3 times as many pages as google, why is it that one I type my name in, it doesn't come up. I also own a domain.
They have $33m funding, a very high traffic site and unique technologies. They are easily worth into the millions and are actually a fairly good new search engine. Regardless of the loyal fans of big G, the search engine is doing well for it's self staring on numerous big profile blogs.
I dont mind it. Its different in many ways to the big SE's at present, which may be something many people attract to. I agree though, the search results are bollocks at present, but Im sure with some tweaks here and there, and thorough analysis of the feedback provided by their link on their results page, they will improve. They have the knowhow and technology to do so. I dont think it can fail really.
Looking at the value of the domain on it's own, a couple of thousand based on now having quite a few inbound links and being a short name (although the ambiguous spelling/pronunciation is criminal IMHO) The company will obviously own quite a lot of IP and talent, it's impossible for an outsider to gauge the value of that. It seems their biggest asset by far is their PR team who have done a fantastic job of getting it into papers worldwide (most papers here in the UK ran a piece on it), although just about everyone I've spoken to used it once to see what the fuss was about and then went back to google. IF the bad results were simply down to incomplete indexing then they've wasted their big opportunity, if not then I guess they are poor pretenders.
You've hit the nail on the head there. The question is, with Cuil flopping on launch with garbage results, will they ever have as much of a chance to make a first impression? I think the millions behind this venture belong to investors who can't tell a search engine from a link farm. Those of us who use Google to search and can immediately sense the difference in results are pretty unanimous that Cuil doesn't have any great technology. In fact, the quality of search is shockingly poor. Maybe they plan to roll out a decent index later...but who will care? Personally, I think the real genius is whoever found these gullible noobs with 33 million dollars for this concept which has nothing of value...no name, no new concept, no user-friendly technology, and no more traffic once we all stop responding to their buzz marketing. I think someone's gonna be sick when they figure it all out.
Its funny how when you type in "google" on cuil... the homepage isn't anywhere to be found. However, of course, when you type "Cuil" in google.. it is the first site (with the homepage). And the only reason they have more pages indexed is because G doesn't index garbage.
I think they handled there public relations poorly. Think they prematurely had the PR people get the service out there on high power websites before they had a product that would actually keep users.
It's worth millions. I think the early publicity might be a little bit of both good and bad. While it's good that they got publicity, it seems their website is not up to par or ready to get loyal customers. I checked cuil one day for 15 minutes, left and have never returned. THe opposite was true for google, the day I first used it was the same day I returned. Google had superior technology in its time, it was far ahead of its time. Cuil is not.