Comments on: Cuil is the new Google-Killer: Idiots

By: Darkmage

Darkmage — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:59:33 +0000

It would seem that about 5 months on, Cuil is still shit. How the fuck do you even pronounce Cuil?!
It doesn’t even have an image search for chirst sake.

By: kingmonkey +1

kingmonkey +1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:37:50 +0000

I tried Cuilling cougarlove and got nothing. Sorry, spambot. You’re future looks not so bright.

By: cougarornot

cougarornot — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:49:27 +0000

I strongly suggest you get more from the hot cougar dating club called Cougarlove.com, a nice and free place for Older Women and Younger Men to interact with each other. It’s fabulous.

By: Panzier-Stier Ross

Panzier-Stier Ross — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:47:14 +0000

It’s happening. Hide your potatos, lest they become sentient.

By: Fiendish

Fiendish — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:11:34 +0000

I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned this, but technically the word “cuil” would be phonetically pronounced “kwill” in Irish. The “u” doesn’t take an “oo” sound unless paired with a fada, as in “ú”. Fionn McCuil’s name is more correctly spelt “McCumhall,” and anyway “cuil” doesn’t mean knowledge. It means bottom or end, although the “i” is only necessary in plural.

As for Irish servers attempting to get us to download “Fields of Athenry” instead of Kings of Leon, it’s much worse than you think. I bought a copy of “Aha Shake Heartbreak” only to find a Daniel O’Donnell CD in its place. I shudder to think what horrors the new album will bring.

By: Randy

Randy — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:09:38 +0000

If first impressions still matter on the internets then Cuil is a fool. My first search took over a minute to complete. Several valid searches didn’t turn up any results and other searches were weak at best.

I thought the idea of columns would be good but I didn’t find it useful. Google is apparently the wheel and doesn’t need to be reinvented just yet however I’m anxious for real competition to come their way.

With great power comes great flex of muscle. Imagine if you will a world where only one search engine is used. Image then that search engine decides your website is somehow illegitimate and they refuse to include your site in search results. In my case I was only banned from using Google Adwords. Their decision is clearly a mistake due to a mistake I made listing keywords but they have left me with no recourse other than to hope a site like Cuil succeeds.

I should say I did like the images that are included with the Cuil search but that’s probably the reason it’s so slow and you just can’t expect to compete at all if you can’t get the speed right.

By: Sven

Sven — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:44:06 +0000

turjkish:

Actually if you were to Google it you would learn cuil does not mean knowledge. It means corner. And they sure as hell aren’t going to corner the market. Plus they were originally planning on it calling it cuill so the Gaelic aspect, even if it was true, wouldn’t have been intentional.

By: tentman52

tentman52 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:25:48 +0000

does it have image searching? i dont know, im too slow to find it. IMAGES PLEASE

By: tentman52

tentman52 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:24:39 +0000

cool. cuil. i dont think it will make it big though, the country’s too retarded to try and pronounce cuil.

By: Exilberliner

Exilberliner — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:04:06 +0000

I tried “clown sex” and the first page -top left ist the first hit, or am i wrong? was a link to an organzitation against clown pron? that doesn’t make sense.