…and thank god for that!!
So I was reading about this really new search engine on CNN called CUIL (pronounced cool).
Nice simple interface.
And it ends there.
I am in agreement with a lot folks who’ve already blog’d and written about CUIL in that in a word, it SUCKS.
Try it out for yourself. http://cuil.com/
Bring up two browsers. Point one to google and the other at cuil. Next, enter the same search phrase in both windows and then compare your results. You’ll be quite disappointed.
For my test I entered (without quotes) “jim west pinball”
On the front page I did find links to some of my pages, but what I found strange and somewhat annoying is that the images next to the links have absolutely NOTHING to do with my pages. They appear to be just random images.
Quite misleading.
Another thing I found misleading is that after you do a search, look in the upper right portion of the window to find the number of results. Funny thing is, you don’t get to see all those results. Some searches I’ve done report thousands of results, but cuil only shows 3 of them. That’s it. Only 3. Nice.
So, after all this, I head back to Google for my searches.
Cuil isn’t.
Cuil sucks.
It ain’t cool to be Cuil.