Cuil-de-Sac: New search engine can’t find itself
With the bombastic claim that it’s the “world’s biggest search engine“, Cuil (pronounced cool) officially launched today. I admit that taking on Google is a daunting challenge. If Microsoft isn’t up to it, how can a VC-funded startup? One of the founders is an ex-Googler, maybe there was something in the water at the Goolgleplex…
Cuil’s unique idea is to offer search categories along with the results. Searching for “user experience” gives us most of the likely results, but the category menu offers “Windows Vista” as the first category available. What’s up with that?
Search for “Cuil” using Cuil and it can’t find itself. It offers categories like Towns and Villagers In Sligo, French Breads, Argyll and Bute… nowhere is the “world’s biggest search engine” to be found!
Finally what’s the deal naming this site a completely unpronounceable word. Cuil is a french word used in recipes to mean spoon. According to the Urban Dictionary, spoon means lots of things, including cuddling (and more extreme acts), or a type of “pipe” used for smoking various combustible substances, or a common insult hurled at someone with intellectual limitations… Apparently www.dolt.com was already taken.
So check out Cuil – the world’s biggest search engine… try searching “arrogance without substance”
I think Cuil needs the FAIL WHALE more than Twitter does.
Doing a search for ‘Google’ is also strange. They make an attempt to offer alternative suggestions with the tabs along the top: “All results, Google search, Google Earth, Google Groups, more..” but it’s all just a confusing mess. It leaves you wondering what’s going on.
As for the categories, who manages this? Robot monkeys? The categories seem hopelessly random and incomplete. What does numerology have to do with Google? Please elaborate cuil!
Searching for “jobe roberts” gets you a bunch of golfers – pga golfers, new zealand golfers, japan golfers…
At least Google gets it right – jobe roberts, ux designer.
I checked out the cuil.com search engine for a search and I can say that I was disappointed with the meager results that I was given.
There\’s a room for improvement on this search engine!
the WORLDS BIGGEST SEARCH ENGINE can’t find you either John – just a dentist and a couple lawyers. If you search for “john p chin” in Google and hit I’m feeling Lucky – it finds an interaction designer!