Cuil – the better Google?
Recently launched is the new search engine – Cuil.
Founded by an ex-Google employee, Cuil claims to provide a better searching environment for internet users. In fact Cuil has indexed 121,617,892,992 pages at the time of writing – about 3 times more than Google.
But more pages indexed doesn’t really mean better. It is more important that when people are searching, they would be able to find what they want.
As opposed to Google, Cuil uses an all-black design on the homepage. After typing the search query, if you are lucky enough not to have the “server overload” error, then you would be presented a search result page, white in background, having a layout like a news / magazine website. Each entry would have a thumbnail beside it.
I searched for “best web ezy” and I have half of the results leading to this blog, another half leading to BlogCatalogue. The thumbnails are not screenshots – some seems like they are randomly generated!
It also has a search result (indeed, #2 result) which leads to a page that I took down about 1/2 year ago.
And I cannot find information on how to submit websites to this search engine. I searched for “submit to cuil” and I got presented results which are absolutely irrelevant.
I guess it might still take some time for Cuil to make things right. I am looking forward to a better Cuil.
