New Search Engine Startup not as Cuil as they’d hoped
by Michael - July 29th, 2008 7:30 am
On the surface it may have looked as though there was going to be some web drama in the works when three former Google engineers joined forces in an effort to dethrone the search engine giant. Unfortunately, giants don’t always come down easily, especially when your new search engine – in this case Cuil.com (pronounced “cool”) – is nowhere near prepared to handle the volume of traffic it would receive on Day 1 after being hyped all over the news media.
My own experience with the site yesterday was anything but stellar. Three very basic searches took longer than five minutes to return even cursory results, none of which were useful. It would seem that I wasn’t alone either, with bloggers the world over registering similar complaints on their own web sites.
I may have initially thought that Google’s recent stock slide of over 35% may have somehow been directly proportionate to Cuil’s claim to have indexed three times as many web pages (120 million to Google’s 40 million), but if Cuil founders don’t make some tremendous strides fast, they seem in my estimation to be little more than takeover bait for Microsoft.
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