Internet Eyer|Keeping an eye on the Net!

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.

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Do you remember the time when you had just started using the internet? Quite some while ago now, hey? Well at that time you might have used the internet just to check your emails. Than once you got bored of just reading your mail you started using a search engine to explore the internet. Do you still remember what search engine you used to use? Personally in 1997 I used Mamma but than a few years later I started using Yahoo and finally, since around 2001, I’ve been using Google. But wait, just because I am using Google it doesn’t mean that Google is the best search engine. I don’t believe that there is a search engine that everyone must use, every person has different expectations of what a search engine should have and do and should choose the best one for him. In my case I use Google for 3 main reasons which are:

1. Speed - Google is very fast and for me time is very precious
2. Results Relevance - I find Google’s search results to be the best around at present
3. Market Share - As you might already know Google has the biggest market share when it comes to search and since I work as a full time search engine marketer I would like to know what the majority of internet users are finding when searching on Google.

Other current top search engines are Yahoo, Live, Ask and Dogpile. Below you’ll find a table that lists these search engines and rates every feature from 1 to 10, with 10 being excellent.