Comments on: Cuil, cooler than Google?

By: Reborn Babies

Reborn Babies — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:33:25 +0000

Hey, very nice blog!! I have bookmarked your site and have taken the feeds also.

By: m.barreto

m.barreto — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:25:47 +0000

There you go!
Get that one on the list too , Peter!

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:45:15 +0000

Don’t forget Dogpile…not sure what went wrong there, but it’s wrong for sure.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:35:46 +0000

also here are some other “brave” sites that have not so successfully comepeted against Google;

Open Text (1995-1997)
Magellan (1995-2001)
Infoseek (1995-2001)
Snap (1997-2001)
Direct Hit (1998-2002)
Lycos (1994; reborn 1999; barely noticeable)
WebCrawler (1994; reborn 2001; barely noticeable)
Yahoo (1994; reborn 2002; now serving Google ads)
Excite (1995; reborn 2001; barely noticeable)
HotBot (1996; reborn 2002; barely noticeable)
Ask Jeeves (1998; reborn 2002; barely noticeable)
AltaVista (1995 – present; good for redundant searches)
LookSmart (1996 – present; look who?)
AllTheWeb (1999 – present; all the who?)
Teoma (2000 – present; never heard of before)
AOL Search (1997 – present; has any one used this in the new millennium)
MSN Search (1998 – present; if your desperate and there’s no Google or Yahoo)

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:26:32 +0000

Has anyone actually used it….its rubbish. The problem is over indexing. The internet has a lot of crap/dead/useless sites. I think this is a case of quantity over quality.

By: m.barreto

m.barreto — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Anna hi!
You’re right on a lot of things, in my opinion..however, I think we’re all anticipating things way ahead of time.

BUT– I also think they were moving a bit too fast when they began claiming superiority over Google…

By: m.barreto

m.barreto — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:19:46 +0000

Hey Andy,
yes, I completely agree, brave guys! although we’re beginning to see clashing opinions on the matter…there are those who are already loving it, others, not really.

By: anna

anna — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:44:17 +0000

They definetely overdesign it and lost the main purpose of any search engine – to provide fast, efficient and easy to use results:
– so much graphic will not make happy people with slow internet connection;
– strange layout is more confusing than useful;
– microscopic text is hard to read even if you want;
Although i like the idea with category filter…

Also 120 billion pages database mostly does not say anythig – it isn’t garantee relevance.

So, if this is all that they can propose – alternative interface and 120+ bill. pages database – it is not a strong point to prefer it to google.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:33:48 +0000

Heey,
Is a good concept, very brave to start a competition on this market against google. I hope they’ll succed :D

By: m.barreto

m.barreto — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:09:39 +0000

Hey Nick!
Exactly. And they’ve only been out for what…2 days?!
patience is a virtue…we’ll see.