jagusa

I don't think it's viable quite yet, but I look forward to its continued evolution.

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John Doe

Crap.

- This name is dilettantish for branding. Too much spelling/pronouncing problems for too many languages. Abortus.
- There is no quality in their todays results. They may have indexed more crap than any other SE but their algorithm seems to be clearly underdeveloped to measure site/page quality and importance. That`s Google`s strenght. Actually understandable, 33 millions is minus 0 compared to resources of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yeah, they also trying many years to build best SE...
- A bit more understanding of human behavior, attention tracking, layout basics etc wouldn`t hurt... Fonts are difficult to read, black header and footer dominating page... No way guys, a bit more effort needed to win a place under the sun.

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http://www.cuil.com <----there's a link for those who don't want to bother visiting a bunch of typos. I agree, letters are way too close together on the keyboard.

http://ciul.com/ is for sale.

http://couil.com/ has the same looking logo as http://www.cuil.com/

weird.

Column format
is too difficult
to scan quickly
for valid results
imo.

Another weird quirk, if you type
ti
or
tt
into the search box, it bolds those letters.

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"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."

• Former Google team members set up new search engine Cuil, launched Monday
• First time Google faced a general-purpose search engine created by former workers
• Backed by $33 million venture capital, claims it indexes more pages than Google
• Through May, Google held a 62 percent share of U.S. search market

Source and full article @ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINES...l.ap/index.html

Check out Cuil @ http://www.cuil.com/

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cosmicray

1 st impression bad name choice

2 and 3rd impression horrible name choice ...

I guess the engineers had more say about the project than the marketers.

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wow...love the results page!

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johname

They might have been thinking of a name that works well in diffrent langues thats only 4 letters long. But still with that budget you think they could have easly come up with a better name. All i know is if you have to highlight the "i" in blue to help people remember the name, your starting at a disadvantage

cosmicray

Heck with that budget they could of bought a universally appealing

LLL.com ! ! !

Engineers should stick to engineering.

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It takes time to develop these things, it's not like you just put out a new revolution to beat Google overnight.

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namewaiter

i'm not sold on the name either, but most people thought 'google' was a bad choice as well at the time

i too hope to see it evolve into a better competitor, and they could always rebrand later like yahoo did with overture

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Originally Posted by namewaiter

i'm not sold on the name either, but most people thought 'google' was a bad choice as well at the time

I guess if someone was living under a rock, and had never heard of google, if you asked them how to spell it, they'd answer with either:
google
googol
googal
googel

Still, google makes sense because there are similar words in the English language. Goggle
Giggle
Gaggle
Waggle

Whereas I can't think of any words similar to CUIL (cool).

So I'd say the first time google user who has only heard of the site by word of mouth has about a 50% chance of spelling it right, but someone who has been told to go to "cool.com" will without a doubt need to be told how to spell it.

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Originally Posted by RegFee

I guess if someone was living under a rock, and had never heard of google, if you asked them how to spell it, they'd answer with either: google googol googal googel Still, google makes sense because there are similar words in the English language. Goggle Giggle Gaggle Waggle Whereas I can't think of any words similar to CUIL (cool). So I'd say the first time google user who has only heard of the site by word of mouth has about a 50% chance of spelling it right, but someone who has been told to go to "cool.com" will without a doubt need to be told how to spell it.

Totaly agree. Google is so much more pleasent looking and easyer to spell and to say then CUIL

namewaiter

Originally Posted by RegFee

I guess if someone was living under a rock, and had never heard of google, if you asked them how to spell it, they'd answer with either: google googol googal googel Still, google makes sense because there are similar words in the English language. Goggle Giggle Gaggle Waggle Whereas I can't think of any words similar to CUIL (cool). So I'd say the first time google user who has only heard of the site by word of mouth has about a 50% chance of spelling it right, but someone who has been told to go to "cool.com" will without a doubt need to be told how to spell it.

and if the pr continues, i can see a lot of increased traffic to cool.com and maybe even kewl.com (because they knew it was spelled differently, but couldn't remember how)

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Epic

I didn't even realize it was supposed to be pronounced "cool" until I heard someone say it. Pretty bad choice of domains.

Dave in Carthage

I agree.. totally sucks IMO for visual appeal.. most won't pronounce it as Cool until it's been heavily branded..

Originally Posted by Epic

I didn't even realize it was supposed to be pronounced "cool" until I heard someone say it. Pretty bad choice of domains.

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Originally Posted by dgridley

I agree.. totally sucks IMO for visual appeal.. most won't pronounce it as Cool until it's been heavily branded..

$40 million more....

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gemstar

Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine???
bIGGER THAN gOOGLE?
I can get a script better than that for $100...

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Not my cup of tea...

I don't like the look of it. It's very dark and not easy to use like Google. Google is simple and fast.

Originally Posted by gemstar

Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine??? bIGGER THAN gOOGLE? I can get a script better than that for $100...

Sure, as long as you have the millions to promote and have a 'cuil' domain to use!



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gemstar

Originally Posted by Bill

Not my cup of tea... I don't like the look of it. It's very dark and not easy to use like Google. Google is simple and fast. Sure, as long as you have the millions to promote and have a 'cuil' domain to use! -Bill

LOL!

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billinchina

I find it hard on my eyes (it gives them eyestrain). The seach result pages load much slower than Google search result pages. Also, I don't like the quality of the search results as much as I like Google's or Yahoo's. The domain name seems like a lousy choice for a $33M venture as well. That's my constructive feedback for the moment.

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weblord

i'll stick with google in the meantime let's wait and see first.

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