Francois_Dumas Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Good, I don't like monopolists Link to comment
blkvelvt Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I tried a few things between http://www.cuil.com/ and http://www.dogpile.com I still think dogpile works better. Link to comment
chrisolson Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Not so kewel ... didn't find my input of " SA 1-30 " which is a reference to an old Schweizer airplane and comes up under an rc model site. Google got it, of course, and even Live Search and Ask found it in the first two pages of results. Link to comment
AviP Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Didn't work for me either. I tried both static as well as news items and Cuil failed on both while Google hit the nail on the head. Link to comment
leikam Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 One of my sites comes up first in cuil for a general search term (nice), but the image is the logo for the University of Alabama (not correct). And they return no results for a more a search on the brand name. They've got more work to do. Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I tried three different searches and got ZERO results. I ran all three of these on Google last night and got multiple hits. Not very cuil. (and I hate the name, but maybe that's just me.) Link to comment
Francois_Dumas Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I get a 'server not found' error when trying to find 'cuil', that's not cool either. I wonder if Google torpedoed them ? Link to comment
blkvelvt Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Not so kewel ... didn't find my input of " SA 1-30 " which is a reference to an old Schweizer airplane and comes up under an rc model site. Google got it, of course, and even Live Search and Ask found it in the first two pages of results. It shows up with dogpile as well http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/sa%201-30/1/417/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true Link to comment
Gregori Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 "Cuil" has a lot of work ahead of them if they hope to be any kind of competition for Google. "Ask" (formerly "Ask Jeeves") results have always been hit or miss. I quit using them except rarely. "Yahoo" hasn't been a real contender in quite a while. They were the one to beat when Google came along. (They seriously missed the boat when the Google boys tried to sell the IP to them.) "Dogpile" used to be a good engine - now it's hard to cull the real results from the "sponsored" ones. These days I'm afraid it's more like a pile of what the dogs leave behind. Google is still the top name in search. They got there (and stay on top) by being very good at it. Link to comment
motoguy128 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I typed "BMW sport touring forums" In google... this board comes up first...wohoo! I couldn't find it using CUIL. It fails! It brought up instead "Sporttouring.net" as the closest. It was slightly faster, but less accurate it seems, and it has no typo suggestions like google.... where if you misspell something it offeres a suggested alternate. Competition is good, but it's got a ways to go. Smaller players can survive, but you need to find a niche or simply provide better service. Link to comment
russell_bynum Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Competition is good, but it's got a ways to go. Smaller players can survive, but you need to find a niche or simply provide better service. Yep. I switched from Yahoo to Google because Google was working better and didn't have all of the obnoxious ads. If someone else comes along and does better than google, I'll switch. Right now, that's a pretty tall order. Link to comment
Marek Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 it think the name of it is close to a french word for a male body part. in particular the way it can be pronounced. I got server is too busy to talk to me. Mark Link to comment
Mister Tee Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 So far I'm not impressed. Slow, and not as effective as Google. Link to comment
bakerzdosen Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Nothing will ever beat AltaVista. ©1997 Funny how times change. Link to comment
ESokoloff Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 "Ask" (formerly "Ask Jeeves") results have always been hit or miss. I quit using them except rarely. Do you want to buy a book on....... I stop using Ask years ago. Not impressed (favorably) by Cuil (insert thumbs down guy here) Link to comment
jbr7t Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Not impressed. Google is still the number one search for me! I typed in the name of my parents business. Google brought the homepage as the first listing. Yahoo also had the homepage at top. Even Dogpile had it as the first non-sponsored listing. Flipped thru 4 pages of results on CUIL and nothing. Link to comment
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