Comments on: Cuil review from a linguistic point of view…

By: Names and logos: The awkward case of Cuil « Dana’s user experience blog

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:10:12 +0000

[...] I looked at this was a French colloquialism that is less than polite, and is spelled c-u-l. For what it is worth, I am hardly the first person to notice this–apparently other misspellings also [...]

By: Cuil, Couille, Cul, Cuillère, Qi, Que oui : Anthologie du buzz Cuil | Cocktail de Web News

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:21:17 +0000

[...] Blog till you drop : “Cuil sounds like ‘couilles’ (balls/bollocks) or cul (arse) in French! Not exactly enticing” [...]

By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:13:43 +0000

I think the real breakthrough in the searching industry will emerge from the concept opposite to actual approaches. Not to employ searching engine to analyse lexical content of crawled web pages but to equip the engine with human knowledge. Why? Because computer applications will NEVER simulate human analysis in sufficiently complex manner – this is illusion. Plugging (properly processed) human knowledge into the trawler is more realistic choice.
I implemented such idea into my new semantic searching engine and it works brilliantly. It is working within the bundle of my tools for “intellectual communication systems” (see the article in my site)

By: tsivillian

tsivillian — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:13:26 +0000

Cuil Sucks. Google is better in what I want. Now can someone tell me why do people think Google is a monopoly, when they actually make thing easier.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:41:48 +0000

The name definitely sucks! I speak French and totally agree with your points about Cuil sounding like “couilles” or “cul”

By: Lolly

Lolly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:10:00 +0000

Hi Robert,

I think that if anyone is going to challenge Google, they’ll have to devleop something with end users in mind, to offer as you mention in your comment, what users need… that would be a pretty big task indeed…

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:51:10 +0000

Well sadly they don’t have a thing on Google. The real winner for Google at the moment is their localization. Being here in South Africa it’s going to take something pretty impressive that delivers search results that are localized to people here. What good is searching for real estate only to be given info on real estate in Florida, US.

While I do like the display of the results I do feel that the results themselves are very poor. Not only for local searches but even broad international searches. Possibly 120Billion websites also means more rubbish… and poorer results.

After all my ranting about Mahalo being terrible… could it be one extreme to the next. 10 websites vs 120billion websites – neither offering what you need.

By: Lolly

Lolly — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:54:57 +0000

Richard – yup cuil is indeed in serious trouble

Phil – if early adopters (us!!) are slating it so early, chances are everyday consumers will never bother looking into it…

By: Phil Barrett

Phil Barrett — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:23:21 +0000

You nailed it – search needs to be local… and personal… and it better kick butt on mobile.

Interesting that they are disregarding user behaviour in favour of fancy new algorhythms – especially since none of my own blog links come up – even when i reference the URL!

By: Richard Galbraith

Richard Galbraith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:45:03 +0000

yeah, it certainly does suck, i’m going to have to give it some time, as the results actually seem fairly accurate, but not what i’m used to from google, which is both a blessing and a problem.

I started using google in 1999, about 4 months after it launched, and never looked back. Close to a decade of using 1 search engine has got me into some serious habits, and as they say, old habits die hard. I’m not opposed to the idea of another search engine, but it’ll have to be very very good to tare me away from google. Cuil hasnt done that on it’s first go, so i probably wont use it again, and if the rest of the internet is as fickle as me (it is), then cuil is in serious trouble.