Comments on: Cuil Is Cool – Try It http://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Faulknerhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13255 Jason Faulkner Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:38:46 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/#comment-13255 Don't waste your time...http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1371343&postcount=18This product needs some serious work before it is a viable/competitive search engine. Don’t waste your time…

http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1371343&postcount=18

This product needs some serious work before it is a viable/competitive search engine.

]]> By: Karlonia - Cuil Search Enginehttp://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/comment-page-1/#comment-13058 Karlonia - Cuil Search Engine Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:55:54 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/#comment-13058 Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two - many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil's claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall. Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two – many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil’s claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.

In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.

]]> By: Drewhttp://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/comment-page-1/#comment-12827 Drew Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:18:41 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/cuil-is-cool-try-it/#comment-12827 Sorry Rich, but I got one word for this site - BLEH! I don't see it as being cleaner in any way. That is the most un-userfriendly layout of a search engine I've ever seen! The search produced 4 links within that search with identical text... "David Risley, the founder of PCMech.. He is the brains, the thinker, the writer, the nerd." What a waste of space on the page!Thanks for the review on Cuil but I, like most likely many others, will stick with Google. Been using it since the beta testing days and will continue to use it unless something better comes along. Sorry Rich, but I got one word for this site – BLEH! I don’t see it as being cleaner in any way. That is the most un-userfriendly layout of a search engine I’ve ever seen! The search produced 4 links within that search with identical text… “David Risley, the founder of PCMech.. He is the brains, the thinker, the writer, the nerd.”
What a waste of space on the page!

Thanks for the review on Cuil but I, like most likely many others, will stick with Google. Been using it since the beta testing days and will continue to use it unless something better comes along.

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