Cristy
The fatal blow for Cuil was the irrelevant rustles. When people try a new search engine they are first going to type a search query where they have a good idea what should rank near the top. If the engine doesn't deliver sites they know are relevant, they won't use the engine. This was the #1 problem with Cuil.Secondly, the grid layout is cool (no pun intended) but were they ranked left to right, top to bottom or top to bottom, left to right? I couldn't make sense of which site was #2 and so on. I'm afraid they portrayed themselves as a fully-functional Google alternative with a half-baked algorithm.
Cristy The fatal blow for Cuil was the irrelevant rustles. When people try a new search engine they are first going to type a search query where they have a good idea what should rank near the top. If the engine doesn't deliver sites they know are relevant, they won't use the engine. This was the #1 problem with Cuil.Secondly, the grid layout is cool (no pun intended) but were they ranked left to right, top to bottom or top to bottom, left to right? I couldn't make sense of which site was #2 and so on. I'm afraid they portrayed themselves as a fully-functional Google alternative with a half-baked algorithm.