This week sees the launch of Cuil amid a blaze of statistics (3 times the index size of Google) and a strong side-swipe at Google’s complex popularity index. I’m going to give it a try for a while and the initial thoughts are good. It works well and despite heavy loading on the servers initially it performs pretty well and certainly looks a lot more up to date, making Google look a little outdated in terms of feel.
The usual issue of a lack of a region (UK) specific search is a little annoying but if it takes off (and one VC has just dumped $30m into it) then we’ll see UK versions in due course. It didn’t start well for them, on Sunday when the service went live it fell over almost immediately but that was, according to internal sources, due to the unexpected load on the server. Surely that is a great thing and not a failure? Buying hardware to provide more computing power is cheap.
So far so good, I like it 
Tags: cuil, google, searchengine