Cuil, it’s cool, sort of…
To the average web user, cuil won’t mean a thing, in fact it meant nothing to me either, well it wouldn’t have if someone had mentioned it in passing, anyway…
Whilst reading a few blog posts I came across a news story quoting a new search engine called Cuil - it already has made some bold statements about having a much larger index than Google and Microsoft, however upon testing out a few searches this morning, I came across some server load problems.
Putting that to one side, I love the simplicity of the search tool, and the search results certainly look vastly different from most of engines. It is very intuitive, and looks far more “sexier” than google (sorry G). It looks like the designers search engine, as opposed to perhaps the average joes search engine. I do fear that perhaps the name CUIL is not quite catchy enough – google for instance has created the “googler” a term describing people searching online, using obviously Google, can the same be done of CUIL?
I do believe that Search needs some true competition, and I see no real commercial competitors stepping up to the plate, this may be in part because those companies are driven by profits and marketshare, instead of actually developing a quick, simple and intuitive system that people will respond too. 
However there are a tonne of search engine start-ups everyday, perhaps some of these are driven by improving search for end users, or by offering the biggest index of searchable results, I fear many are purely driven to compete with Google, for which they are already on a massive loss. I personally hope Cuil is different, and brings some new innovation to the search market, something which is seriously needed, if only to keep Google on its toes.
So I will be endorsing the site and using it alongside Google, so long as my site gets indexed (which it isn’t presently).
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