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Apparently Cuil was not quite ready for launch during the first day or two - many medium long tail queries did not return results at all, and even general queries returned way fewer results than they should have considering Cuil's claims of having indexed so many pages already. They did improve somewhat afterward, however, and seem to be picking up more results and increasing relevance as more people have been testing out the engine.

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No sympathy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:07 -0000

Sympathy for a flopping bragger? Ugh. I'll dumb down my response for your kind.

Competition good. Cuil flopped. Cuil is no different than other bad search engines except for hype.

Google was once an underdog. Now Google is now on top.

Cuil is an underdog now. Someday, Cuil may be on top. Will you then look for the next underdog? Abandon Cuil?

Until my site exists on Cuil and other searches produce relevant results on Cuil, I will not support Cuil. They suck away potential customers.

They divide us. If Cuil wants to compete, they have to earn the status they desire and not claim it.

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Karlonia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:26:06 -0000

In the long run, I hope they get things together and perform well enough to compete with the major search engines and then maybe do some advertising. I would like to see more serious competitors to Google in order to hold their power in check and encourage more transparency overall.

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Maria Elena Duron — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:32:06 -0000

I agree with YOU! Cuil is a HORRIBLE search engine/tool. Google still rocks!

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SomeAudioGuy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:08:50 -0000

Yup.
Me too.

I just submitted my site to get crawled.
I guess I just don't understand what the big advantage to Cuil is...

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LarryN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:23:04 -0000

I tried Cuil again tonight and I got only two results for a title of mine that can be found on many dozens of major websites like Amazon.com. Why can't Cuil find Amazon.com? The two sites that Cuil linked to were both spam sites; one hijacked my browser. Both links showed on Cuil the keywords I typed in, but neither site's source coding had the words. Seriously, if Cuil isn't deeply infested with viruses, it has to be extremely buggy. I have linked this blog from mine, and I'm warning everyone to not use Cuil at all now.

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Cathy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:33:26 -0000

Oh, my goodness, Phil, you could have WARNED us!

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James Bashkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:13:12 -0000

@ Toni and all:

Thanks for the feedback. I just tried to look at my search in more detail and found I could only see the first page of the 1.2 million results. Clicking on "next page" gave me a "sorry, we didn't find any results for your search" message, even ethough 10 pages were listed at the bottom of page one (and 1.2 million hits implied a few more pages, also). There were some irrelevant links on the first page, but also one about my late father that I'd never seen.

I have some articles and photos at http://www.gather.com/viewA... Gather.com (which features my environmental articles, fiction reviews, articles on music instruction and select and photos), but I don't think anyone indexes them at all.

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Carl — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:58:20 -0000

It didn't find my URL either!!

http://www.carlknibbs.net/b...

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Toni — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:42:53 -0000

@James I tried turning off safe search and went from 8 results, one of them me (improvement over yesterday, but still icky) to 3,265 results, two of them me (the same reference that came up twice). Still no relevant links like the 6 pages I just pulled up on Google (improvement over yesterday too - thank you Ecademy for all the hits but jeez) all of them me and me only.

One other observation though. Cuil said 3,265 results but only let me look at 5 pages averaging 11 links each... where are the other 3,210?

On the other hand, it pulled up gold on a search for articles about my great grand uncle, Tex Rickard. Articles I've been trying to get google to cough up for years!

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James Bashkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:41:45 -0000

OK, here is partial if confusing answer!

I turned off "safe search" and went from zero to 1,252,253 results for James Bashkin. I only write safe stuff! Really!

For example, see Sustainability and the environment group or Guitar Lessons for Kids to Adults, Playing, Gear and Semi-Pro Gigging. Vital reading, of course, but you could take it home to Mom.

So why does cuil think I'm unsafe for general consumption? Everything under my name is rated G! How many of the rest of you fellow invisible types have been flagged by Cuil as unsafe?

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James Bashkin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:34:35 -0000

Hey, I don't exist either! Oddly enough, my part-time nome-de-web, chemrat, has 148 hits, and most seem to be about my blogs. So, maybe I'd better change my name to my alias!

Why did I feel I needed another identity, anyway, asked the caped crusader? Here is one site I publish under my complete name, and it has a moderate readership (my largest by far). It's all very confusing.
Chemistry for a sustainable world
This best site is published under my alias. It gets about 1% of the traffic that green chemistry gets, but my alter ego gets all the fame.
Solar Power lens

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Andrew Hyde — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:11:28 -0000

I had a very similar experience, but there is some major hype there. Amazing what a little Google 'competition' will do, if you call them that (link to my awesome Scientology results: http://andrewhyde.net/cuil-...

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Jake — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:56:35 -0000

Not surprisingly it couldn't find cuil.com either. First page was mostly whois sites.

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Mark — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:10:48 -0000

I had a similar experience, although I've probably only spent 2-3 years "littering the web" with my presence.

That really is not very "Cuil" (sorry, I couldn't resist).

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Laurie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:24:15 -0000

I found a few odd references to some of my work, in a vanity search last night. But what disturbed me was that I found a fraudulent version of my organization, listed with my name. It was all of the content from my org's site, with just a slight name change..but still taking donations! So thank you to Cuil for alerting me to this fraud, but for crying out loud stop directing people there! (BTW, the real org wasn't listed in the search results).

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Toni — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:44:27 -0000

It's pronounced COOL? lmao, not for long unless they do some awesome flaming live ads. I'm pronouncing it "kill" as in "it cuiled all references to me and my business. I couldn't pull up even one reference that identified what I do, only an old listing from our local Hispanic Chamber website, where I was listed as a contact on an event. On Google I have 3 1/2 pages of results. Current results.