Mon 28 Jul 2008
Cuil below expectations
Posted by Bashar under Search Engines, Technology
Cuil is a new search engine just launched to the public with a claimed index of 120 billion pages. Google on the other hand says they have 1 trillion urls, not all of them are indexes because some are spam or duplicate contents. No specific number on the index size it self. Anyways, doing my first typical search “Arsenal”, my old addiction, the results are column based, which is something uncommon for web results, and on the side a might-come-in-handy categories to search with, such as Arsenal Players, Premier League Players etc. Which is something good to have. I am still not used to the column view though, not sure it’s the best for searching my results.
Trying several other queries though, I lost faith in the index size of the new site. I am not suggesting a fake number of indexed pages here, but perhaps a very bad collection of indxed pages, missing out a huge amount of critical sites and links. The search query for something typical such as “Google Checkout Review” returned ZERO results!
The same query on Google returns how much? 424,000 results!
Maybe this is one very unlucky query, but the number of results on Google makes me lose faith for now in their index. Maybe with time.
Popularity: 27% [?]
July 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Um.. the site looks very buggy to me..
I got 135 results for my search (”cogwheel diagrams”) but only 2 results showed on the page, and no way of going through the other pages :S
Maybe it’s in early beta-testing..
July 28th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Haider: They don’t say it’s Beta :)
July 31st, 2008 at 9:34 am
I tried several things…. it would give me much less results (like your example)
also… it did not find my blog! I already dont like it :-P heheheh
the black color -energy saving- reminded me of google’s http://www.blackle.com/
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
Ansam: Yeah, everybody’s been saying this about their results. I guess your blog is not registered in Technorati or something like that, which is why mine is included and not yours. Either ways, number of results is beyond satisfaction.
The site got quite a buzz because ex-Google engineers were working on it and claimed to have a larger index database than Google.
Saving energy won’t save them. Maybe with time they will improve it, but it’s a bad first public impression. And it doesn’t even say Beta.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
How to stand out? Block all your competitors. I guess that’s their technique by giving little search results from/about google.
Arsenal you say, eh? Good. At least we could use one more anti-madrid fan. :P
August 10th, 2008 at 11:41 am
MacaholiQ8: You think it’s conspiracy? It would be stupid one :)
I’m not big fan though, used to be big one :). Technically, I am arsenal though
August 11th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Yeah, nice try but, not quite…