Cuil interface is refreshing, although results still don’t impress!

Nov 26, 2008

I was going through the feed reader and remembered about Cuil search engine after going through a post by Amit, titled “search engine cuil is heading for oblivion“. Amit has discussed that how the hype created by Cuil is working against them and that the traffic reports aren’t that satisfactory. Although, he found out that the results by Cuil were better as compared to Google.

I tried a search for “apple ipod reviews” on both Google and Cuil and surprisingly, the pages suggested by Cuil were more helpful than Google.

However, in the test done by my for the terms – “beautiful wordpress themes“, it was Google which gave much varied and better results as compared to Cuil, which showed various links which were pointing to one particular post and had similar heading.

I have to agree to Amit that Cuil’s interface is definitely impressive or rather we may call it refreshing and a pretty welcome change. Apart from that, it also gives various search suggestions in the right hand column and helps you reach the desired result quickly or if you are doing a research, then it will help even more.

It’s interesting to see that Cuil claims that it has indexed 3 times more web pages as compared to any other search engine, however it’s sad to see that they couldn’t display varied search results. Probably, they forget to drop the low quality pages from their index and that’s why they have such fat index.

Where exactly Cuil will really head then?

We really can’t say that if Cuil is giving better results (at least, to me it looked stupid) or if it’s giving good results (as found by Amit), however it is for sure that they will surely have pretty tough time until and unless they grab some deals with various browsers or they come up with interesting marketing strategies.

I personally think that Cuil will be acquired by some either of the internet giants. Cuil has this wonderful technology which allows them to have a much larger index and that too with almost 1/10 of the resources as compared to the competition. Probably, it will look good to Microsoft, although they have already acquired Powerset, so I wonder if they will be interested in Cuil.

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