|
|
|

Cuil Search Needs Time, Users to Fight Google
By: Clint Boulton
2008-07-29
Article Rating:    / 28
There are 45 user comments on this Search Engines story.
Cuil Search Needs Time, Users to Fight Google (
Page 1 of 2 ) Cuil search works well once you get in, but the search engine needs a lot of love and nurturing from users for it to have a chance to compete with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Give it a shot, but realize that Cuil search is a work in progress.Yesterday I had a devil of a time accessing new search engine Cuil from
my laptop in a Manhattan office.
I assure you the location of the connection was not the issue because I was
able to access Google, Bloglines and all of my usual applications from there.
I then tried Cuil last evening from home and was able to get in. I'm trying it
right now, July 29, in my home office and got in after 15 seconds of waiting. I've
played with it enough, so the following is what I think.
First, I, like everyone else, have found that Cuil produces fewer results for
searchers. Search "The Dark Knight" on Cuil and I get almost 1.2 million
results, compared with 34.7 million for Google.
The endless examples of Google producing more results don't really matter.
People are making too much of this. Most searchers don't look much beyond the
first 10 or 20 results anyway, so why are we considering the fact that Cuil
returns millions fewer results a big deal? It isn't. This is a trivial concern,
so please don't judge Cuil poorly because it offers fewer results.
Now it is for users to decide whether Cuil is returning the right
results for them.
Here is what I think you should judge Cuil on: For most searches it works and
works well, and it does not resemble a search engine beyond the first page.
This gives users a unique experience that might be a little disruptive at
first. When you enter a query, you get results the way you see written content from a
modern Web site. Other bloggers called this design "magazine style."
I'll be the first to admit that this irked me initially.
I wanted plain old search results, not pieces of content with pictures and
whole-paragraph synopses of what the search result contains. But then an
interesting thing happened. After I kept coming back for more searches, I not
only got used to it, but got to like the aesthetics of the Cuil content.
It took about 20 searches to get used to it because my eye is so trained in
traditional search engine fashion to look straight down the page, rather than
left to right. Did anyone else experience this, or do you still find Cuil's
results pages grating on your eyes?
The autocomplete feature flat-out rocks. After typing "The Dark" en
route to typing in "The Dark Knight," I was treated to 11 choices.
The first five choices were The Darkness, The Dark Side, The Dark Tower, The
Dark Crystal and then The Dark Knight.
Also, while commenters are complaining about search quality, I fully expected
to see the official Warner Brothers Web site for "The Dark Knight" on
Cuil and Google.
| | Reader Comments: Cuil Needs Time, Users to Fight Google | | >>> Post your comment now!
| | Cuil is DOAI am a hard core infomaniac and I see no advantage to using CUIL. Posted At: 08-04-08 By: liftoph | | | | | | Old DataI search for my company's name. Third in the first column was a link to a domain name with an old version of our company name we abandoned years ago... Posted At: 07-30-08 By: MG | | | | | | Cuiling CuilI find it interesting that when I entered "cuil" in the cuil search it did not come up in the Auto Complete nor did the cuil web page come up in the... Posted At: 07-30-08 By: Jim | | | | | | Cuil search worthlessI tried them both with a simple ego-surf. Google returned some 200 hits, virtually all of them appropriate and reflective of the body of my stuff... Posted At: 07-30-08 By: JDE | | | | | | Google works, Cuil doesn't.I'm so sick of people attaching a personality to computers and computer tools "the search engine needs a lot of love and nurturing from users for it... Posted At: 07-30-08 By: Anonymous | | | | | | | | | | | | Cuil simply sucksI'm so sick of people attaching a personality to computers and computer tools "the search engine needs a lot of love and nurturing from users for it... Posted At: 07-30-08 By: Anonymous | | | | | | >>> Post your comment now! | | | | | |
|
 |
|
|
x}r۸jkmH)ٖcؖēSHH"Hʶ2gyu~|.KƳw-`n4Iș3"9)ٝfߧGo-zIjû@@ezNULsJԶn T7n[#3P/ ?`᳙(,Q tjGt0]2hԵ;k2"gwek/cߨY`&`1ZlR!j
9i?۴$)Oh]
>YQMږy@6ՇHaDBa5w0NK>'5nCUVekV6^;s9ȹ׳ z$5d#7t#205ARZ [XdTZwӁk)u8rz08ryj5jfO,{n_w$z(֝z$]+~bA2xưaqHl6XBZJ`^<{m6)|@ɤ:!Zda=}ٗe̛f4öCٰo4TiUE9(TR8+www;1;߶ٽS;Qo]{UMSy}z#GA mkh[J"ZAP:I\t>Ƀ59N6
|'L
R* rP8$ȇ ;|53P%JV4E;
KHrSdXIC/YTU![cҺ赮.鵎Nڭd̲1<JEӀZvb"?ZWkqKN:W}"+|qg5M0\̱:֪V1?x?-|kh2`cRZIj=2OǝޗóI|]81w~F y[-t[[9K
}!z#w%#,_ fkķLJsi ":urPO}sNZZSĿ G/<@'D5n#fMs,eg{0A M)61p9k
3!RBʼۤ%/^(P%!P샖_.
jFՇTwIQQ#=^f/\R@ 2Al8{ØWҽTwsQiغ|48?]7+De.,
s5-wjzaZTpx3jOWcҽ\t;6?`Ub}PhvZM]qsuTSt*Zl:|5Ճ"TG&-d`q86ayʔI??&}aO> 5٤>'4}t>$>hƋCriZn-rӇ{u4Aο
w|hx:4,Ab&a`M?Fm| &>r\l8d$n)ssLn- σ5]ѽk:?a#0.Zm{$8ʼE]ub3Bݷ|{
ޚꖭ,L<ģ̠O(~9-WR;C/0z""D% T
h4AEENAw;.VKŤ\*y"JM':ܑWKRx&,S,BV-KᗄPf%i2mlƪń(VFNl(0Vn)egHtXKnuo?Hյpz1(ۥa]hk% T? !d[}aa6E]QZRKHD@CR)Ե
aY^`(ytM̆Т𧖴>*`5m_&TYWC-jISJ |