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Former Googlers fail to win over Google
By    Christo Jacob
Wednesday,04 February 2009, 21:42 hrs
Bangalore: There has been much hype about the yesterday's launch of Search engine Cuil, as the master minds behind it-three ex-senior Googlers- claimed a bigger index size (120 billion web pages) for Cuil than Google or any other search engine. So it was clear that the service of the new search engine will be compared to Google from day one. And the way they will be compared is index size and, more importantly, relevance/ranking of results.


But when Siliconindia team gave some search queries on Cuil (www.cuil.com), it didn't appear to have the depth of results that Google has, despite their claims. And the results are not nearly as relevant. However Cuil is an excellent search engine, as it is only an hour old and have time to outwin its competitors.

Another review says that while a search for Dog returned 280 million results on Cuil Google returned 498 million results. Google returned Wikipedia as the first result, then dog.com, while Cuil returned Dog.com. Wikipedia was not listed on the first page of results.

It seems pretty clear that Google's index of web pages is significantly larger than Cuil's unless we're randomly choosing the wrong queries. Based on the queries above, Google is averaging nearly 10 times the number of results of Cuil.

And Cuil's ranking is not as good as Google's based on the pure results returned from both queries. But Cuil's area of excellence is with the related categories, which return results that are extremely relevant. It does a good job of guessing what user will want next and presents that in the top right widget. That means Cuil saves time for more research based queries.

Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including Costello, who built a prototype of Web Fountain, IBM's Web search analytics tool, and his wife, Anna Patterson, the architect of Google's massive TeraGoogle index of Web pages. Patterson also designed the search system for global corporate document storage company Recall, a unit of Australia's Brambles.

The two are joined by two former Google colleagues, Russell Power and Louis Monier. Previously, Monier led the redesign of ecommerce leader eBay's search engine and was the founding chief technology officer of two 1990s Web milestones, AltaVista and BabelFish, the first language translation site.

     
   
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Reader's comments(13)
1: As a starter Cuil is giving such an excellent results than expected.... its really appreciatable
Posted by: Shanmuga Vignesh - 12:00 AM Jul 31, ' 08
2: Google has one more competitior and now have more reasons to do better than its doing.
Posted by: Deepak Singhvi - 12:00 AM Jul 31, ' 08
3: cuil will be the best search engine in coming days
Posted by: Rajesh - 12:00 AM Jul 31, ' 08
4: hello... on cuil webpage, go to preferences and disable safe search. Then search for dog. It finds 838 million results, double to what this article quotes...and results are categorised too....i find it very interesting as a starter :)
Posted by: piyush - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
5: I agree, I did not find Cuil search results very relevant. I will continue using google though I do find Cuil.com's front page visually more attractive than Google.
Posted by: Aakash - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
6: I guess cuil will take some time, as the search results were not much relevant unlike google's
Posted by: diganta - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
7: Sambit, Google has a site called blackle.com which has the refreshing black background and an energy saver.. check that out..
Posted by: vipul - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
8: It is gud to break the monopoly of Google in Search Engine Market. Observed Cuil is gud in search also. They can definitely come over soon..
Posted by: Zameer - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
9: Ofcourse it takes time to beat google. They (cuil-team) should be proud of their first step and so should we. Look and feel/display of search results cant catch people so much as right results do. And I am sure CUIL work towards it.

I'd wish all d best to CUIL team.
Posted by: sriman - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
10: Key word searched : arraylist
Google Returned:3,030,000 results
Cuil returned: 1,572,535 results

But Cuil is refreshing...with its black bg

It is not intelligent enough as compared to google, but I wud say it is not bad and people will definitely like it......so tht google can again come up with something better..
Posted by: Sambit - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
11: google proves once again that any new competition will has a long way to catch up with it :)
Posted by: suvarna - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
12: I do agree this site is not as what was expected so far but give them a time they will improve.
One thing I must say, the way results are displayed are very refreshing after seeing same format years after years. So result output of Cuil was very refreshing.
Give them few months and they will create some sleepless night in Google camp.
In all WE WIN.
Posted by: Rohit Shah - 12:00 AM Jul 29, ' 08
13: Cuil is not so efficient giving results. as i tried after supplying keyword and google was far ahead in results.
Posted by: Inder - 12:00 AM Jul 28, ' 08

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