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Alright, so I'm not the biggest fan of Google to begin with, but what's up with the immediate "Watch out Google!" statements whenever a new search engine rolls around? I think it's obvious that Google would have to have really serious competition before they would even spend a moment to remotely care. Where Cuil is concerned, I think the only emotion Google would express at this point is joy.
Cuil (pronounced 'cool', hence the foolish news title) came out just the other day, touting itself as the 'world's biggest search engine'. That I might believe, but in order for something like that to matter, a search engine also needs to deliver relevant results, one area where Cuil fails. Some queries to deliver reasonable results, but 'Techgage' shows our Cedega 6.0 article first... before the actual home page. That article performed well when first published, but still ranks under our top 300... so the fact that it shows up first is a little odd.
Searching for 'Cuil' delivers even more humorous results, as it nowhere lists its own site. It does appear, though, that the more popular a website, the better the chance that it will be listed first. Test out 'Yahoo!', 'Google', 'Intel' or 'UEFA', for example. Overall though, I do like the goals and design of the site, but it certainly seems to have a ways to go before it's taken seriously.
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.
Source: Cuil
Cuil (pronounced 'cool', hence the foolish news title) came out just the other day, touting itself as the 'world's biggest search engine'. That I might believe, but in order for something like that to matter, a search engine also needs to deliver relevant results, one area where Cuil fails. Some queries to deliver reasonable results, but 'Techgage' shows our Cedega 6.0 article first... before the actual home page. That article performed well when first published, but still ranks under our top 300... so the fact that it shows up first is a little odd.
Searching for 'Cuil' delivers even more humorous results, as it nowhere lists its own site. It does appear, though, that the more popular a website, the better the chance that it will be listed first. Test out 'Yahoo!', 'Google', 'Intel' or 'UEFA', for example. Overall though, I do like the goals and design of the site, but it certainly seems to have a ways to go before it's taken seriously.
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.
Source: Cuil
