Comments on: 4 Ways to Beat Google at Search

By: tonixx

tonixx — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:11:10 +0000

What do you think about http://search.io ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:46:52 +0000

Wheres the regional options??? It appears I can only search USA – or have I missed something?

By: ck88

ck88 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:46:41 +0000

I can’t see any challenge whatsoever to Google in it’s current state. Very poor search results.

By: fproof

fproof — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:51:47 +0000

I just did some searches on Cuil that I did earlier today on Google, and I must say I found some very interesting and relevant results that didn’t appear on the first pages of Google. So I think I’ll give it a shot from time to time.

By: Desmond K

Desmond K — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:17:23 +0000

No advanced search? No image search? And doing a search on ‘image’ lists Google and Yahoo! Image Search? The site looks fresh, but still needs some work.

By: Stevie D

Stevie D — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:57:09 +0000

I’m highly unimpressed by Cuil. I agree with Jonathan that it seems to favour directory sites – ie, the last place that anyone wants a search engine to send them. But not only does it favour them over proper pages – a lot of the time it doesn’t have any proper pages at all.

Their problem is that they are focusing on the wrong issue.

Google does not have a problem with not having enough pages indexed. Nor does Yahoo, Live, Ask or any of the other major search engines. We got past the days of search engines not having enough content years ago – a typical multi-word search on Google can return over a million results.

The killer issue is now (and has been for several years) getting the most relevant results to the top of the list, especially given the enduring ineptitude of a huge proportion of web authors. As a general rule, I don’t care if Google gives me a dozen results or a million – what I want is for it to give me three to five spot-on pages in the top ten. By and large, it does this very well. Cuil doesn’t – it gives me absolute rubbish.

By: weekbeforenext

weekbeforenext — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:43:41 +0000

I just wish they would use an image from the web page in it’s description in the search results. It’s way weird that it just places random images. So much for image branding.

By: Online_Business

Online_Business — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:38:07 +0000

i take it this only works for USA based sites currently? i also prefer my results in a single column, makes it easier to read in my opinion

By: SlymG53

SlymG53 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:33 +0000

How do you pronounce Cuil? That’s a big marketing mistake.

By: XLCowBoy

XLCowBoy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:47:25 +0000

I would place this as even pre-beta. Stage 1 even. I searched for the actual name of a site, and instead, got a 3rd party link to the site. Then I searched for a company product, and instead of cuil giving back the company’s official page, they gave me Wikipedia.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays off to say the least.

What’s with the media nowadays? Even the “serious” ones are becoming nothing more than well-dressed hosts for sensationalist articles. What do they think their readers are? Tabloid’ers?