Cuil and The Gang

Today I read about a new search engine that is on the scene called Cuil (pronounced “cool"). The brains behind this new engine belong to several Google alums.

From a purely visual perspective, the site interests me. It presents results in a new way; that is, paragraphs over the current standard list used by the Big Three. Cuil claims to have a larger index than even the GOOG at 120 billion pages. When I tested the site in a quick non-scientific way, it left me wondering if this would make it.

One of the joys of being named Brandon Meek (no S on the Meek) is that, well, there just aren’t a lot of us. Outside of a banjo player and a few generic businessmen, well, that’s pretty much it. Several years ago, I bought my name and in pretty much any engine, I will rank first, as I probably should. When I tested Cuil with this though, well, not so much. I mean, I pretty much control the first page with or without a space in the name, but for some reason, my homepage doesn’t make it. Cuil seems to have some serious love for Twitter stuff and Gooruze as much of the results are tied to one of the two sites/feeds.

I want to play with it for a while, if for nothing else, to see something different. I’ve been waiting for a while to see someone, anyone, do something different in the search space. Is Cuil the site that will take control of search? Well as Motley Fool says, “The correct answer is “probably not,” but there’s too much at stake to write off Cuil completely.”

Besides, we need someone to root for and we need someone to push search to it’s next stage.

  July 28, 2008     3:40 pm