New Search Engine Opens Today: www.cuil.com

Craig · #1 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 09:25 AM

There's a new search engine hitting the web today called Cuil. It is based off of technology created by ex-Google folks who decided to take search to a whole new level. Check out the CNN Money post about it.

Quote:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier - searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

They claim to have more than three times the Google indexing, with a fraction of the hardware power. Interesting for sure. This could be the anti-Google we've all been waiting to see. Check it out at Cuil.

Tao · #2 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 09:38 AM

Hmm...

YankeeDeuce · #3 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 09:50 AM

Tried it out earlier. Garbage. Half the things I searched for said there were thousands of results, but only had 2 results showing, or you would click a result and it would be some completely different page, with none of the keywords you searched for in sight. Or the site was just down.

mex1cola · #4 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 10:15 AM

"We’ll be back soon...

Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.

Thanks for your patience."

Fail.

DennyCrane · #5 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 10:40 AM

Yeah... not too impressive yet. I'll check it more later. I was hoping for a deep web search like Welcome to Northern Light that was available without a user fee.

evbrak · #6 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 11:48 AM

Doodboobs shouldnt be the first thing to show up in a search for boobs

DigitalDD · #7 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 12:19 PM

This is actually more like Mahalo than Google. What's really weird is I've only gotten results thus far when I've mis-spelled stuff and that stuff was completely unrelated to what i searched for.

prolly just growing pains. i was hoping for something more like Clusty

TheShelks · #8 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 01:32 PM

At this point i don't think anything could beat google, people are far used to it to change.

VincentVega · #9 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 01:52 PM

Couple of thoughts

- what is wrong with Google?

- I smell a big fat lawsuit with sourcecode being handed over. come on, there is no way in hell those people didn't sign a no-compete, and this is clearly exactly that. It also must be rife with google's procedures

LOL!!

Craig · #10 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 03:24 PM

i dont think you guys are giving this a good shot. They have over 645k results for our site. its a lot better than the 103k that Google has. Also note their small logo previews and images to URLs?

They have our photopost indexed as well. I'm really liking this engine. The next problem is culling through all of this information effectively. They need an advanced search.