New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google

[debsuvra]

There's a big new search engine launching Monday: Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, it's pitched as bigger, faster, and better than Google's flagship search engine in pretty much every way. See video interview with Tom Costello, below.
I have not had a chance to spend much time with the engine. I'm getting open access to it the same time you are. I did get a preview. It's a very serious effort, and it has enough funding to get off the ground and become a player.
The most important difference between Cuil and Google is its ranking system. Rather than assigning priority to pages based on inbound links as Google does ("Pagerank"), Cuil analyzes the content of Web pages to divine their relevance to a search query. Costello bristled when I asked if this was a semantic search engine like PowerSet (recently sold to Microsoft). Costello said Cuil's search is "contextual," and that, "we're trying to understand the real world, not the Web.

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Check CUIL @ www.cuil.com

In my opinion, this new search engine looks cool but it's functionality is nowhere near Google or even Live search.

 

[nvidia]

^^This thing sux totally..
This is what i got when i tried to search something.

 

[goobimama]

^^ Even that page is not opening for me. I guess they lack horse power right now. Still, if the technology is good, then I'm looking forward to using it,

 

[nvidia]

^^It loaded once..
Now its not. I tried searching for "Mac4Lin" and it returned 0 results

 

[ilugd]

We’ll be back soon...

Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.

Thanks for your patience.

ha ha.

well, atleast it is not just timing out.

 

[goobimama]

Well the search works now, but not my cup of tea. Didn't give me the search results I wanted…

 

[ilugd]

i guess this is an attempt at the semantic web or whatever.

 

[k6153r]

I don't like it.
Results are displayed like newspaper.

 

[ThinkFree]

At present, no one can beat google

 

[ajaybc]

^^It loaded once..
Now its not. I tried searching for "Mac4Lin" and it returned 0 results

That keyword gives 17,718 results.May be u typed it wrong


Anyway teh site looks very cool

 

[iMav]

If it will index my posts also and not only my domain name, then I will shift to it.

 

[narangz]

Looks promising. Let's see what it brings with time.

 

[CadCrazy]

More competition means better quality product for end users

 

[Siddharth Maheshwari]

I wrote a review on it today at my blog
it says that it is ten times better than google he he lol
its search result quality is worse and the servers are damn slow

@ajaybc many terms were giving 0 results at the first few mins of its launch
I tested many good terms and ended with microsoft and hopefully got a result lol

 

[iinfi]

all the best to its makers

 

[nvidia]

That keyword gives 17,718 results.May be u typed it wrong


Anyway teh site looks very cool

Hmm.. I guess i typed it wrong.

Anyways, i used it today to search for a lot of things, but this thing didn't help. Only if you use specific keywords, then it'll return a few good results. Otherwise its all crap.

 

[Ramakrishnan]

I also searched it and it turned in o results after a lot of time. Google need not worry.

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

ever been to *www.viewzi.com/ ?

 

[Pat]

ever been to *www.viewzi.com/ ?

ever been to *www.clusty.com ?

 

[nvidia]

ever been to *www.viewzi.com/ ?

Not bad.. Looks cool.. But resource hungry and search results are not that good..