Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is supposed to be the hot new search engine on the block, created by ex-Google engineers. Let me tell you right now, it sucks – so far at least. Just search anything, anything at all, look at the results, and you’ll see what I mean. A search for “Leland.info” returns a bunch of old stale links, which by the way have nothing to do with this site. I honestly hope they can improve though. I like the idea of ranking pages based on content relevancy only, and not “superficial” factors like incoming links.
Cuil Sucks
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Yeah it does kind of suck and it was released with a firefox traffic hoarder too. my impression is that the engine isn’t too bad but it isn’t google. I think the search results are not laid out at all well. and I disagree with their hierarchy of information. The eye naturall goes from top down on the page and on the left hand side. their results on the right hand side will not get as much of a response regardless of what they show. I think that is a mistake and just bad design.