that is the way the masses would spell the word cull if they knew the word cull. you may have a point. the cuil people may have been too cute for their own good.
i guess that johnnyfagboy.com was taken, cause that's about as cuil as it gets. what a fucking waste of VC money that piece of shit is. If its still around on Friday, I'll eat a turd.
I'm not sure about the rest of you guys but I kinda like it... I've changed my homepage for now and I guess I'll see how long it takes me to get fed up with not having all the greatness that google does besides search (which IMO, they have started sucking at). Also IMO, cuil is cool, it's short, catchy, and just right. as for those of you who keep saying "they screwed up thier one shot"...This is probably the smoothest software launch of this magnitude in history. They hit a home run as far as I'm concerned. The search isn't at all slow for me. The rest of thier page certainly is slow and there seems to be some problems with their safesearch flagging stuff that it shouldn't (the company's homepage I work for was flagged for a few hours today) but the search always seems fast for me. Once again, it appears they have thier priorities straight. Now, let see how long it takes them to tackle google maps
Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine By Rafe Needleman â July 28, 2008 10:43 AM PDT 5 comments Google challenger Cuil launched last night in blaze of glory. And it went down in a ball of flames. Immediately after launch, the criticism started to pile on: Results were incomplete, weird, and missing. I talked with Cuil VP of communications Vince Sollitto this morning about the launch issues. CEO Tom Costello was "busy putting out fires," Solitto said. Sollitto said there were two issues affecting Cuil search quality currently. First, he said, "We are trying to give people different results." Cuil is pitched as an alternative to traditional search engines, and users should not expect the results to be the same. Fair enough, I said, but there's a difference between alternative and wrong. Which brings us to issue two: "We've only been live for twelve hours," Sollitto said, and traffic has spiked beyond their expectations. In other Web 2.0 launches, a traffic spike would slow down or crash the service, but in Cuil's architecture, the spike affected results, not speed. (Cuil did also crash briefly last night.) This is because Cuil isn't set up as a massively parallel search network the way, say, Google is. Tom Costello had explained this to me a bit when we talked last week. Each of Cuil's search appliances is specialized to a particular subcategory of results. There are machines that understand and index sports, other than are experts on medicine, etc. Sollitto said that as these search machines get overloaded, they drop off-line for some queries, and the machines left online return less-than-relevant results that then appear at the top of users' pages. Which brings us to Sollitto's parting words. Cuil, he says, "will only improve with time," he said. "It's day one. Traffic is massive. We're new. There are bugs to fix, results to improve." I asked him if he thought it was a mistake to launch the service in such a straightforward way, without even a "beta" moniker on it. "The beta label doesn't inoculate you from scrutiny or criticism," he said. "The product was strong enough to launch." We'll check back on Cuil after the traffic spike subsides, and we do hope the results improve. At the moment, Cuil's design and interface shows a lot of promise, but results matter, and it's simply a poor search experience. Here are some poor Cuil results sent in by Webware readers: This should not be too hard for a search engine. Not useful. Probably a symptom of an overloaded system. Topics: SearchTags: Cuil,GoogleBookmark: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Add a Comment (Log in or register) 5 comments (Page 1 of 1) by jamalystic July 28, 2008 10:56 AM PDT It sounds a little weird. Well let's give them a few more days and see how it works out then!! Reply to this comment by squeekyfoot July 28, 2008 11:14 AM PDT I did a search for my name since I have a site up. Michael Schultz. Even going through the several pages of results, I didn't find my site listed. I looked for michaelschultz.net and I got to result and neither were for my site but pages reference my site. Hopefully things will improve over time. Reply to this comment by Apacheking July 28, 2008 11:24 AM PDT Hmmm...for some thing different, I would go with http://msdewey.com/ Reply to this comment by Penguinisto July 28, 2008 11:30 AM PDT Just for giggles, I did a search for "Renderosity" ( a largish 3D/CG website)... results were, well... nada. See for yourself: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=renderosity&sl=long along that vein, I tried searching for "poser"... I figured as both a program and a pretty common term, it would get at least something... nope: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=poser&sl=long Man, these guys have a Loooooooooooong way to go until they reach even MSN Live, let alone Google. Reply to this comment by bpicolin July 28, 2008 11:30 AM PDT I couldn't find my site www.innertools.com, or my site succeedconsulting.com. I no longer exist as "Colin R. Brown" - where I was listed along with my book all over the place on Google. This is a really, really bad con trick on the masses. It looks like a list of infomercials - instead of a catalog of useful places and references. It Suuuuuccckkkks!!!! CUIL should be renamed FUIL U.com Reply to this comment ADD A COMMENT Comment SUBMIT Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine Click here to add another comment.The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Click here to review our Terms of Use. 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Cuil sucks. According to Cuil.com, there is no such thing as asian porn on the internet. If you can't find a single asian porn website on the internet, your search engine is clearly not very good at finding stuff.