New Search Engine Cuil: Comparison to Google & Microsoft
Filed under: News | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: July 28, 2008 | 6 Comments
We spoke this morning about the new Cuil search engine, which has been started up by a former Google employee and her husband. Now we would like to take a further look at this new search engine and see how it compares to some of the other major players, such as Google & Microsoft.
Cuil founders have said that their search engine does a better and more comprehensive job of indexing online information over their rivals. The technology that Cuil use indexes the web and then understands the context surrounding each page.
Cuil have come out all exited and say that they can take on search engine giants, Google, but I think that they will struggle to do this.
Cuil have said that they use more than 120 billion web pages to build up their index, the search engine say that this is more than Google. We are not certain how many Microsoft index, but it will be less than this figure.
We do know that everything we search in Google, the search engine giant keep and store. I do not think that Microsoft do this. Cuil have said that they will not keep your personal information and this is a great marketing angle, considering everyone is concerned about their online privacy.
Google and Microsoft keep their search results in a classic format, where Cuil makes things pretty by displaying results in a magazine format.
Not once has Cuil said that they want to be bigger than Microsoft; you would have thought that they would set their sites on a smaller search engine, then try to take on the giant.
Cuil say that they move away from the technology that has driven Google to their success. Instead of just looking at the number of quality of links to and from a webpage like Google do, Cuil attempts to understand the information on the page more.
It is amazing at how different each search grabs results from a web page. One thing is sure, Cuil have a mountain to climb before they can match Google.
My closing point: As Cuil has a black homepage, this saves energy. A white webpage will use 74 watts to display, a black page uses just 59 watts.
Have a little play around with Cuil and let us know what you think about it.
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Very interesting that anyone would think they could take on Google for this market, but a little competition is definitely a good thing. I did a preliminary search on cuil this morning and I’m actually pretty encouraged about the speed of the search and the relevance of the results!
AMAZING how this article claims it is a review, and then it is obvious that the writer has not even been to the site, or tested the site in any way to review it. HELLO??? How about the fact that as of today cuil.com can’t even find ITSELF on its own search engine.
What a dreadful excuse for a review. If you’re going to be this vague, uninformative, and uncertain (e.g., “I do not think that Microsoft do this”), then don’t even bother.
Hmm.. I have been chcking out the search engine cuil just a couple of minutes ago and I do not think it will be a serious threath to Google. Just look at teh interface how the searh engine results are displayed in two or three columns instead of a list. It does not work. I think they have to work really hard the next couple of months to fix the usability. It’s a very long for Cuil…
Cuil sucks. The only thing this engine is a threat to is the suckers that dumped VC money into it. IMO, very poor results and the images that are displayed often are not even from the website in the search listing. Not cuil.
There is a new search engine. The new visual search engine, it is only for kids.
http://www.aga-kids.com/