Comments on: Cuil Sucks At Search (Go Google!)

By: Sanjana Sharma

Sanjana Sharma — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:55:18 +0000

I cant believe how dumb cuil is.. first people would be confused..is it ciul or cuil?

First I tried my searching my business “Cafebpo”… I was speechless when I saw it threw an error
“No results were found for: cafebpo

If you’ve checked your spelling, you could try using fewer or different keywords to broaden your search.”

How much fewer words, idiots ??

Then with easy searches, the search results dont look like a normal search engine search results…

I will never go back to cuil or ciul or whatever carp. After hearing their VC story, I hate VCs even more !!

By: Alex Mielus

Alex Mielus — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:52:47 +0000

Poor search results = cuil.com …. period.

Demonstration:

My name is Mielus.
Compare http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Mielus
with
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Mielus

By: Asztal

Asztal — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:39:32 +0000

A few days ago, searching for “cuil” itself returned completely useless results. Seems they’ve fixed it now, but it was an excellent, slightly ironic, example of how it fails.

Also, I’m sure I read somewhere that Google’s index has reached 1 trillion URLs (granted, they’re not all unique pages).

By: Gerard P

Gerard P — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:59:51 +0000

I searched a common shopping term & the 2nd site listed tried to download a virus. Not cuil.

It would be a shame though, if this mess influenced the next possible worthy SE contender to not enter the fray.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:41:38 +0000

Depending on the search term used, I have found photos on my listing that don’t belong to me, and I have found my original, copyrighted photo on a competitors listing.

They have a right to take a snippet from my site. They do not have a right to use my copyrighted photo to promote a competitors site!

I’m waiting to see how long it takes for this stupid idea to get fixed. It’s a simple fix – if the photo ain’t from the site being listed, don’t use it!