How Hot Is Cuil?

It was slow and difficult to look at. All that stuff in a disorganized mess on my screen. It never came up with the results of my search before I got fed up with waiting, waiting, waiting... Google remains my search engine.

Not very cool right now because: "No results because of high load... Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again." Will try it over the next few weeks as they get their feet under them

I used Cuil and found a number of kinks - the first time the info and privacy buttons led to error messages on the site. Also, searches for pages did not have nearly as good resulst as Google or even Yahoo.

When it found something it was a nice layout, etc. But it rarely found anything I was interested in. I tried several searches that I used routinely on Google and it came up with either nothing or just garbage -- unlike google. I had to make the searches so generic to get anything that I ended up not finding anything usuable. Over hyped, not worth the effort . . .

Looks pretty nice. I like the layout of search results. I believe the servers crash on me a few time. I kept getting "Error no result found" message. Cuil really need to keep those servers up (not crash) if they want to be player in the space.

I tried Cuil today and put in the name of a bank. Out of all the links that surfaced NOT ONE was the direct link to the banks web site. Lots of hype that brings NOTHING to the table.

We have an established website that averages 30k hits per day; its been up since 2003. I typed the EXACT NAME of the site in Cuil: no results. Enough Said! FYI, I'm a smaller business, so I would have been happy for the little guy.

yeah, it's crap. the front page is clean. but the searches are crap. got a bunch of junk. sticking with yahoo / google. even msn live search is better.

very 'general' search results... if you're looking for data on a major event, then it's okay, but if you want something very specific - it stinks.

Not impressed at all. Bad layout. then in the middle of my search, Cuil stopped because of high load! I gave up. Yahoo and Google for me

I used Cuil for a few searches and found it better than Google. Best feature is results layout. I am not sure if I'll quit Google altogether but Cuil will definitely be getting some of my search share.

Cuil worked really well for me. I was looking for "academy art university". By the time I typed "academy art" it had narrowed the results down to a pull-down menu below the search term, and the link I wanted was third within the list of six terms. I selected "academy art university" and the correct link was the first one on the results page. It all worked very quickly, and seemed easy and seamless to use. I find the solid black Cuil search page really off-putting though, enough to prefer another search engine instead. The all-black page 'feels' oppressive to me.

Cuil doesn't cut it. I'm an award winning film maker (2007 CINE Golden Eagle and master series and a well known software trainer. Google turns up over 100 hits with my name. Cuil only one.

I don't get it. Couldn't find what I was looking for and it makes too many "corrections" for me. Google has no worries.

They are not hot at all ...puuuleeease.. "alltheweb.com" indexed pretty much "all the web" back in the late 90's before Google even got close and who really knows about that service today? So sheer # of pages is not necessarily an advantage. Speed and Relevency are where the money is at today .... my recent Cuil search experience did nothing to indicate that they could or ever would deliver anything as fast or as relevant as The Goog.... Cuil's interface is prettier and w/ pix .... but so what. Lot's of others have tried to go for relevency w/ clustering and never took off ... like "mooter.com" Google keeps chuggin' along because they deliver a lot of things their competitors don't ... ie what the average internet consumer wants .. the rest is hype... And on the hype note - for what it's worth, all this current free media exposure around Cuil seems more like an attention grabbing ploy to create the perception that Microsoft needs to buy them (instead of grabbing Yahoo?) to start filling their vast Search gaps ......

I really liked the search Cuil. Google lost its focus from search by getting distracted in everything else other than search. Typical when the owners have made billions. This is time that a new Era of internet search begins. Cuil is the way to go. It is blazing fast, nice presentation but I did not like the blank background. Based on how many people are leaving Google it seems the time for Google has come. It just goes down from here.

Not relevant at all. I searched for 3 of the sites I built over the last year and it has no idea they even exist. Google, Live and Yahoo all over them.

Tried it, thought it was very UNcool.

boring

dude. blows. All we got were irrelevant results or no results at ALL. sometimes simple searches returned nothing. plus what up with the images next to the results? We found some competitor images next to wrong companies names.