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Cuil – Bad Search Engine Name

I meant not to go crazy over new tech but I couldn’t resist this new engine published on TechCrunch, Amanz and SembangKomputer.

Cuil New Search Engine

Cuil is dark-themed and have an interesting way of publishing search result, pretty much like an aggregator. Anyway, Cuil claimed to have indexed 120 Billion websites. Out of that billions, NH wasn’t even listed. How unfortunate.

A word of note: DONT EVER SPELL IT AS CULI.COM. Trust me, I’ve tried.

I’m sure Cuil’s server is frantically overheating by now (so is Culi.com). It’s screaming traffic and resource like a mad monkey! I guess it’s a problem every start up has.

ps: I’m happy to see at least someone is brave enough to compete with the giant Google

pss: I had to double check the links I provided before I reroute you to the other site   :arrow:

Written on 30 July '08 under Web & Gadget
 

There are 19 Comments for “Cuil – Bad Search Engine Name”

I tried that yesterday, not happy with it. (because The Flaccid Mind wasn’t even listed?:P) Guess it is still too early to decide its worthiness. Give it some time.

Yes, thumbs up to Cuil for having balls to go against Google :up:

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NoktahHitam replied #1

baru lagi, relax. let crawl onto each web.

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bongkersz wrote on July 30, 2008 #1

mcm2 search engine dah ada ye..tp google ttp dihati beb..

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NoktahHitam replied #1

Google mmg no1. Tp aku tak suke monopoly.

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chot wrote on July 30, 2008 #2

hurm. i shall give this a try, then report the respond / results that i get. :sad:

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abdusfauzi wrote on July 30, 2008 #3

i just came back from testing CUIL.com, it for the time being, it manage to return out my old OPERA blog.. hurm.. but, not my current blog. :roll:

they have a long way to run, if they wan’t to compete with google.

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NoktahHitam replied #1

apparently they started in 2005, since then it has been crawling the web to index. unfortunately most of blogs are not even updated in there.

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abdusfauzi wrote on July 30, 2008 #4

haha, never misspelled it..

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aman wrote on July 30, 2008 #5

It doesn’t even mean “knowledge” in Irish. I’ve read somewhere that it’s the misspelled version of the genitive of a word meaning “hazel”, which is indeed associated with knowledge.

But then, “Google” sounded silly the first time, too.

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Bogdan wrote on July 31, 2008 #6

cuil its a little bit heavy to load.. x macam google sket.. mungking baru lagi kot..

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nikillas wrote on July 31, 2008 #7

Cuil? How to pronounce?

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t.a.t.a wrote on July 31, 2008 #8

Kalau silap masuk Culi.com, virus menanti. Tak caya cuba try…

Bagi aku, perjalanan cuil.com masih terlalu jauh…

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ImamKhalid wrote on July 31, 2008 #9

he he he :up: . hehe. tried the culi dot com although you warn not to mispelled it. So i purposely mispelled it and :evil: . ekekeke.

i tried a few sites on cuil dot com but mostly not listed. all i can say it is still new n needs time to grow

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taukey wrote on July 31, 2008 #10

Even Google name was funny, but now it is included in the dictionary. However, Cuil is a new “methodology” for a search engine, even though I dislike it.

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NoktahHitam replied #1

Google means 10 power of 100, that means 1 with 100 zeroes. It’s the largest number ever named, any bigger than that doesnt have a name.

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pening wrote on July 31, 2008 #11

I am sitting on the fence for this topic :razz: because I’m torn between two views that sit on extreme ends of the love-hate spectrum.

I love Cuil because of it’s magazine-esque layout – making things easier to read, and it focuses more on content than anything else. The layout is simple and clean, not too complicated but yet not too simple to mislead visitors.

However, one bad thing I don’t like about it is that it has ditched the page ranking system Google has been relying on. Page ranking it itself is a double edged sword, but the good thing of it is that it allows visitors to arrive at the relatively more relevant results at the first few pages. Cuil doesn’t, obviously. A search for common terms threw me URLs that link to sites I’ve never seen before. What happened to the definition lists, the Wikipedia links and etc (okay although Wikipedia isn’t all that reliable)… :???:

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teddY wrote on August 1, 2008 #12

cuil = cool! tp xcool lansung. cuil.com.my ni-wan?

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Extremist Thinker wrote on August 2, 2008 #13

cuil? dari nama je aku tak berkenan. Tapi aku suka ada orang kaco hidup Google nih. Hehe..

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