Monday, July 28, 2008

First look at Cuil




Cuil - pronounced "cool" is the latest search engine developed by former Google engineers. Is it really cool? Lets find out...

Cuil boasts to cover three times more web pages than Google. To check it out, I did a simple search for "IBM" to see the number of pages each search engine returns...Surprise surprise, Google won the race by a long way, infact Cuil was not even close in terms of number of hits for the search keyword(41M compared to 275M). I like the way search results are lined up for you, by category and with images (I was not able to go to the second page of search results)...But, that takes a lot of time and resources I bet (Especially with Ajax stuff running in the background).

There are some serious bugs in this new search tool, looks like someone is in a real hurry to release this "Beta" search engine.Its good to have competition out there which makes the products even better. Its a nice beginning, but I should say that Cuil is far from being called "Cool"

-BS

3 comments:

Siddhu said...

Woww...never knew about this before. Looks like they didn't have bright people (like you) on board!

Btw, didn't the google guys pay you for the free comparision?

Unknown said...

Nice start prasad, Way to go. I wanted to start my own blog, but you know I am a bit lazy to start.

Will see if I get some inspiration from you.

Keep blogging
Ravi

Anonymous said...

good information!
Cuil looks realy cool, bit its bit slow.
best is: when you search Cuil in google, first result says " Cuil can not be google killer".