Is Google facing stiff competition from Cuil? Well I really don’t think so… Have a look at the screenshot below. I searched for the keyword “Cuil” in cuil.com and it lead to no cuil.com pages being listed. Then I did a search for “http://www.cuil.com” and once more no cuil pages appeared therefore one may safely assume that cuil.com hasen’t been spidered yet. Well Cuil is definitely not off to a good start…..
I guess you already heard about it, Cuil, a search engine that has been mentioned prominently lately in the media. Why so? Well cause this search engine has been developed by a group of ex google employees and therefore the expectations around it are pretty high. So did you have a look at it? if not just go to http://www.cuil.com.
The makers or Cuil are boasting that cuil is the search engine that spiders most pages which is true but on the other hand I hope that they don’t boast on it’s layout and search results. I really don’t like the colour scheme and the way the results appear, I think it is too messy. The search results are something else that I don’t like, Google’s search results are by far better than Cuil’s, to mention it all even yahoo’s, ask’s and live’s search results are better. But not all is bad, a feature that I really liked is the related search feature. When someone searches for a particular keyword, Cuil offers a few related searches which will narrow’s one search results and help him find what he wants quicker. Summing it all up I really think that there still is a long way to go if they really want to compete with the big G.
