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- inactive, on 07/28/2008, -7/+164Sorry Cuil, the name sucks and I got a lot of bad results for common queries. Lame... back to the drawing board.
- inactive, on 07/28/2008, -8/+145The name alone puts it at a disadvantage.
- inactive, on 07/29/2008, -1/+81Let me guess... 2 of someones friends died while making Cuil. And it's not funny ?
- S7aind, on 07/28/2008, -1/+56No way this takes over any of those three.
- Qrange, on 07/29/2008, -3/+55cuil as a name is 50% fail
- kds405, on 07/29/2008, -0/+44If you have to tell people how it's pronounced it already has a branding problem. This equals bad word of mouth expectancy. Personally, I would never talk about something I couldn't pronounce.
- ChrisFizik, on 07/29/2008, -1/+43the whole Cuil thing is a disappointing shame. should not even been in the public eye yet. Huge uphill branding battle. Let along the technological feats of running a credible search engine. Does not matter if you've got 500 billion pages indexed. I don't know what that woman was thinking ......seems like she's bitter or something
- thelastcivilian, on 07/28/2008, -2/+44I can't bring myself to pronounce it like that. "Quill" sounds much better (and literary; and seeing as we're searching using words...).
- YodaJones, on 07/29/2008, -0/+35Wow, the relevance sucks balls. Relevance is THE most important function of any search engine and Cuil is serious flawed in that area. Where the hell do those pictures accompanying the results come from? Sometimes it looks like the same three pictures over and over.
At first Cuil looked interesting, but on closer investigation it's a loser. Maybe the startup guys came from Google, but they sure didn't steal the secret sauce recipe. - jayrok, on 07/29/2008, -4/+35Well, that's why they're "ex" Google engineers.
- sindex, on 07/29/2008, -0/+30A search for "cuil" on cuil fails to return itself as a result. Fail.
Incidentally, Google finds itself and cuil just fine. - lunarworks, on 07/29/2008, -0/+29Anything that bursts onto the scene and declares itself a "______ Killer" is fated not to be.
They should have started low-profile, and generated a reputation naturally. You know, like Google did. - MondayJBlack, on 07/29/2008, -0/+28Actually, when someone burst into my apartment and declares themselves to be a "Serial Killer" I tend to take them seriously
- BorsKaegel, on 07/29/2008, -1/+23Not Cuil.
- theburningsoul, on 07/29/2008, -2/+23You cannot defeat the overload.. You minion!
- Pic0, on 07/29/2008, -0/+19Using Cuil for "Abot Cuil"
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Did you mean: About Cuil
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Jul 19, 2008 ... Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search - fuzzmeister, on 07/29/2008, -2/+20Google is also a pretty weird name, once you think about it. At least you can probably spell it if someone tells it to you, unlike cuil.
- ukblacknight, on 07/29/2008, -0/+18Ditto. I searched "Train Times UK" in Cuil and it came up with a load of garbage. The search query in Google returned all the sites I needed.
Plus, that 'magazine' layout looks messy. - Wiini, on 07/29/2008, -0/+17I would have hated to have been on that venture capital band wagon.
- billbugger, on 07/28/2008, -0/+17#26 on fails
- upick, on 07/29/2008, -8/+24CUIL = SUX
This has to be the worse Search Engine I've used 2nd to Live.com
I admit there's no spam well not as much as live however the layout annoys the hell out of me, the results are far worse than yahoo and well why do we need another search engine by the same engineers as google? Ex engineers of google i mean - freebird09, on 07/29/2008, -0/+16You forgot the "***** you!" part, but yes, essentially.
- RudeTurnip, on 07/29/2008, -1/+16Bingo...you can spell it. The Cuil guys are trying to be cute with their name and their smarminess will be their downfall.
- davidlow, on 07/29/2008, -2/+17Shoulda been called "Laigme".
- Bishoco, on 07/29/2008, -0/+15Using Cuil to search for "Cuil"
First result: "Properties for sale in Cuil Mhuine, Ireland - Properazzi"
Using Google to search for "Cuil"
First result: "Cuil www.cuil.com"
Actually, the first result was technically a news result:
"Cuil Needs Time, Users to Fight Google"
If I can't find the search engine using the search engine, something is wrong. - MondayJBlack, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12It's only a fail if you weren't searching for "Properties for sale in Cuil Mhuine, Ireland - Properazzi"....sheesh
- freezerburn666, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12instructions on how to get an F minus
- mimigins, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12Even after finding out that it's supposed to be "cool" I can't stop saying "coo-ill".
- davewashere, on 07/29/2008, -0/+12They were the guys who mowed the grass at Google. They were fired because kept wandering off the lawn and into the parking lots.
- v4vishal, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10Google 'cuil'. You find the site.
Cuil 'cuil'. Can't recognize itself.
There you go! - damndj, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10To their financials.
- SubjectiveC, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10Google can send me a shout if they want to know where I want them to send me my millions after reading this:
1. Be the first to offer user customization of search. Away with the quotes, minus and plus signs. What I mean is...
2. Filtering. Be the first to filer blogspam, repeated AP headlines and the like. Figure out a way to "read" the internet so that your engine can recognize when content is in the comments section of a website.
3. Offer users the unique experience of filtering out these kinds of results and a Bury-like option for search. If anything, I'd love to bury links in searches I do in Google and elsewhere, because I know they're crap, spam, and/or I'll never have any use for them. Or, maybe it doesn't fit with what I'm looking for.
4. Implementation of feedback and user preferences is a must.
Millions, please. - MondayJBlack, on 07/29/2008, -0/+10They musta been using Cuil Maps
- rgaino, on 07/29/2008, -0/+9Agreed. It shocks me how people spend millions and years and can't even think of a good name for your product.
- Jexie, on 07/29/2008, -3/+12No analysis needed on why google has nothing to worry about - CUIL absolutely sucks ass. It's not only not as good as google it is easily the worst search engine I have ever tried.
- mayhemchaos, on 07/29/2008, -1/+10How dare they try to overthrow the Empire that is Google! *kneels to his iGoogle Home Page*
- inactive, on 07/29/2008, -2/+11Let me sum it up for you: It sucks.
- davewashere, on 07/29/2008, -0/+9Actually, I found it had lots of spam. I did a search for a popular sports team, and the 3 most prominent results (which I consider to be the top left corner, the one directly below that, and the top center) were all places reselling tickets. 2 other results on the first page were also ticket resellers. Of the remaining 6 results, 4 were for wikipedia entries of individual seasons for that team, seemingly chosen at random (2007, 1990, 1989, and 1949). The 2 other results on the first page were an unofficial blog and the NY Times page devoted to the team, both of which are relevant, but hardly the most relevant. So far, I'd say this is a terrible search engine.
- Pic0, on 07/29/2008, -0/+9But they probably watched you for along time before breaking into your apt and killing your two roommates using Cuil
- inactive, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9Cuil = that time of the month.
- teethandeyes, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8I tried it out and it pretty much sucked ass. I did a number of pretty basic searches and got no results at all.
- kimbomitt, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8I searched "2004 US Presidential Election" and the first result was something about how the Illuminati "staged" the election.
And I searched "turkey recipe" and got no results. - gweedo767, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8search for "lock ness monster"
Google: images of Nessie, links to wikipedia and other helpful sites
Cuil: a man pulling on his penis
Yup...I think we have an obvious winner here. - gweedo767, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8Again, pointing to why Google is the clear winner here. Misspell something and Google gives you valid data. Cuil gives you a penis.
- footbag01, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9Cuil stinks. Use it once, it'll be your last.
- picto, on 07/29/2008, -1/+9This entire article supports both reactions I had when I used it on Monday:
Reaction 1 - First Visit: Meh...it has some neat ideas, but these results BLOW
Reaction 2 - Showing a friend: It's not working? Well ***** you, too, cuil... - ascharf85, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8What I don't get is that searching "cuil" in Google brings up the new site, but searching it in Cuil site brings up nothing about them? They forget to index themselves? WTF
- mayra1201, on 07/29/2008, -0/+7No surprise there. A search engine with that much "potential" shouldn't be vulnerable to the Digg Effect.
- Qrange, on 07/29/2008, -0/+7NSFW
- flailking, on 07/29/2008, -1/+8cuil whip?
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