Comments on: Not So Cuil After All

By: Oblioarrow

Oblioarrow — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:26:47 +0000

What’s with the irrelevant pictures that accompany Cuils random results? Ugggh. Not cuil.

By: jrrl

jrrl — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:35:18 +0000

@Yug: Matter of opinion, I suppose.

By: jrrl

jrrl — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:34:45 +0000

@Chris: Just checked both from here and both give the plugin’s home page as result #1. Odd.

By: Yug Modnar

Yug Modnar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:14:50 +0000

“Come on, even Yahoo finds the home page for the plugin as the first result”

Whaddaya mean? Yahoo’s search results are almost as good as those of Google. Any day.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:10:45 +0000

Just as a note: neither google nor yahoo actually returned any useful results for “TTFTtitles”. It certainly didn’t return the page you listed as its homepage.

By: ohboy

ohboy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:16:58 +0000

“yahoo uses google’s search engine, just fyi”

No it doesn’t.

By: Hooligan

Hooligan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:08 +0000

“Come on, even Yahoo finds the home page for the plugin as the first result. ”

ugh……………. yahoo uses google’s search engine, just fyi

By: JohnSmith

JohnSmith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:48:51 +0000

Sorry, you have to get it right when you launch because people won’t really come back and give you a second chance.

But thank you for playing.

By: Anthony Morreale

Anthony Morreale — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:46:38 +0000

Oh P.S. – Cuil results are absolutely atrocious. Sorry Cuil, your PR campaign jumped the gun WAY too early. How did you not see this coming? Did you actually “use” your own search engine on a day to day basis? Could you actually accomplish your day’s tasks with the results?

By: Anthony Morreale

Anthony Morreale — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:43:54 +0000

Doing a common search and coming up with zero results is a result of the server overload, not a result of their index.

@Rasputin – I think people would be happy to use more than one search engine (google) if more than one search engine had 1.) solid results and 2.) displayed the results correctly.

@Rasputin, agreed that engines need to come up with algorithms that make it impossible for marketers to “backlink” their way to top positions – at least deliberately.