Cuil - Google Alternative

[flamesfan6]

search my name in cuil: nothing
search in google: 4 results that me, 1 not

and thats pretty much what it should be, so googles right =]

[KevanGuy]

weird.

kevanguy = no results
KevanGuy = no results
KEvanGuy = 3 pages of results

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

weird.

kevanguy = no results
KevanGuy = no results
KEvanGuy = 3 pages of results

Double weird

kevanguy = 1023 results
KevanGuy = no results
KEvanGuy = no results

BlackArcher101 = 1951 results
blackarcher101 = 1951 results
Blackarcher101 = 1951 results

[flamesfan6]

kevanguy = no results
KevanGuy = 17 results
KEvanGuy = 1023 results

.......

[Boblobla]

boblobla 12 on Cuil and 3780 on Google.

[Barnes]

I like the results for Calgary Flames players.

Valeri Bure
Denis Gauthier
Wayne Primeau
Toni Lydman
Jarome Iginla
Wade Belak
Phil Housley
Roman Turek

[SebC]

Sounds to me like their algorithm is essentially what search engines were doing before Google, and they forgot that the reason Google was so successful is that people were tired of their awful competitors and their lousy searches. Cuil is a step backwards, and with their poor launch, they've probably lost the early adopters (like us). They're toast.

[jtfrogger]

Wow, that is a pretty bad search engine. I played with it for a bit, and couldn't find pretty simple pages that would be in the top five of a Google search.

One of the wackiest things, is that I couldn't figure out how to exclude pages with a specific word or phrase, like the "-" character on Google. One search I often do is my last name, and I specifically exclude the two semi-famous people that regularly show up.

The other thing that I find annoying is that the search results don't line up when reading left to right. I like to read left to right, and it gets confusing when I go to the second or third row.

I think I'll stick with Google.

[jammies]

After using it, I have a slogan for them, free of charge:

"The search site for the 90s, now available in the 21st century!"

I could write a better search engine with 2 programming lemurs supervised by a homesick macaque. It looks, literally, like someone's master degree computer science project from a 2nd rate university. And if I were the prof, it'd have gotten a solid D+.