Junika Even before Cuil was puiblc', I saw mention of it on another forum, and the thinking there was that it was all a ploy to develop an alternate search strategy to Google, then sell the technology back to Google. If Cuil is made up of ex-Google employees, that would make sense in light of the abysmal failure Cuil has been to the general puiblc. So they sell Cuil back to their former masters for a killing, and a year or two later, we see some form of an alternate Google-pretty' search engine, marketed for people who don't like search engines or some other marketing nonsense.

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.

Shlok I find myself using CUIL more and more. The seacrh results tend to be more relevant than those of other seacrh engines (Google tossed relevance out the window years ago) and the layout is superb.They do still have some problems and the lack of advanced query operators ensures they won't be my primary seacrh engine for some time. But their work is impressive.This is the best entry into seacrh technology that I have ever seen. If they follow historical trends, they'll probably become a major contender within about 2 years (but I would not bank on them becoming a force in less than a year).

Budi Cuil doesn't seem to be ready for a public raleese yet. The system is working, and according to the owners, they can index MORE sites than Google. The results, however, are way less relevant than those found by other traffic exchanges! Really, Cuil finds the weirdest things sometimes. Not to mention the dark and gloomy website design isn't really a good thing nowadays However, I should probably wish them luck. Google founders started from nothing, and look at them now; these guys have equipment and their secret' algorithms. Only it's incredibly more hard to get into the search engine market now

Kite After millions of doalrls was invested they made one of the biggest mistakes a company could make right out of the gate They announced they were open for business when they were not 100% ready.. made a bunch of statistic claims that they could NOT back up..I tried it the first day and when a few of my search terms (popular ones) did NOT return ANY results I never went back.. as I am sure millions of other people did..Lesson to be learned don't brag unless you can back it up AND never announce your grand opening until all the bugs are worked out CUIL will be in the black abyss in a few months and that domain will be worth a cuil $8.95

Alexander Cuil is a good example of how not to lacunh a website. All that money spent on PR has been wasted (unless of course its a black marketing campaing from Google in which case, money well spent.). If they want to get those kind of hits again, they will have to spend even more money on PR the next time to convince people that it's not as rubbish as it used to be.Statcounter helped me learn the same lesson with my own website. I lacunhed it before it was ready, got loads of hits, but the visitors were dissapointed that it wasn't fully ready and never came back in full numbers.The world wide stats are also interesting, showing which countries are more susceptable to media hype / propaganda etc. Or perhaps which countries are the least loyal to Google?

Kelsey Unfortunately, Cuil just isn't putting out good rtlsues. For example, search for Jewish Learning Connection . The first link in the upper left is Cleveland's Jewish Learning Connection. But it is an old page at an old URL that hasn't been used since 2006. The current site isn't found.Another link on the first page is the United Methodist Church. Sorry, but that site hasn't got diddley to do with anything Jewish.And all the links are displayed with invalid graphics. Search for Heights Jewish Center and you will find some worthwhile links. But the pictures that accompany those links don't come from the linked sites.I wish the good folks at Cuil every success. Competition is the backbone of free enterprise, and competition can spur the established players such as Google and Yahoo to get better. But right now, Cuil is not competitive at all.