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Monday, July 28, 2008
Can Cuil be cooler than Google?
Can any search engine make a dent in the Google juggernaut? Many have tried and failed.
Today, the latest challenger is Cuil, a start-up founded by former Google engineers.
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) claims to cover more than 120 billion Web pages and says that is three times as many as Google. Cuil also wants to make searching friendlier, supplying a results page that resembles an online magazine rather than a stack of text links and summaries.
Cuil has a team of experienced online search experts and $33 million in venture capital backing, but is that enough to take on Google?
Cuil may have a lot going for it, but there’s an enormous mountain to climb before people start saying: “Go Cuil those directions to the mall.”
UPDATE: Ouch. For a company with big ambitions, today could’ve gone better. Slow searches for some. No searches for others (just a message about servers “running a bit hot.”) And complaints about incomplete or just strange search results. A company spokesman has reportedly pleaded Day One bugs and the massive traffic. He promises things will improve. We’ll be watching.