What Is It?

Cuil is a new search engine. It has been the subject of posts on the popular tech blogs in the last few days (1 posts, they all post )

While I haven’t read them all the only thing I really picked up was that the pictures disabled didn’t always correspond with the search result.

So Why Am I Posting?

Well, because I gave it a try and was surprised at the results (or lack of them returned).

Cuil have some very good PR words on their About page and on their Philosophy page. They talk about some very interesting values for web searches which I am mostly in agreement with if only they can deliver them.

Some of the main points Cuil make are:

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The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance.

and

Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.

it’s well worth reading their About Us and Philosophy pages if you are interested in what Cuil (and good search engines should) strive to achieve.

The current problem seems to be that they are failing to meet their aims by a rather long way.

So What’s the Evidence

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