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Checking Out Cuil.com 
By: Brad Foutz 2008-08-01 A while ago I was thinking about how much crap you have to sort though in order to get the good results in google or yahoo. I figured someone would come out with a different way to search and it wasn't going to be me. Cuil.com may be this new search engine but they need to overcome some problems I encountered first. After switching to google years ago I was instantly hooked and have been using it ever since. I have gone back to yahoo once or twice just to see if their search has improved without luck. Since hearing about the launch of a new search engine created by ex-googlers, I figured I would give it a try. On my first visit I really didn't have much to search for so I chose something random like "horse". I could see that cuil has its top results along with an, "explore by category ". I thought this was interesting and may have some potential. Being able to quickly select a sub-category that will focus the search would be a great improvement. Today I actually spend some time to do some comparative searches. I would do my normal search in google, see the results, and then do the same keyword search in cuil. I did get some different pages back but sometimes I would see a "No results were found for: search string". Since I was working on migrating data in CRM today I did a search for "crm 4.0 import ignore comma" and I got no results for this, google of course had tons. (BTW...of the top six results, ittoolbox.com was listed four times.) Maybe I'm not searching correctly or I have been programmed by google to search in a specific way in order to optimize my results? Now that I am trying to apply these search techniques to a new and different search engine they do not work? They definitely need to scale up if they are having the kind of trouble that Code Sharp wrote about. Comments About the Author: Brad Foutz started working in IT after traveling around a bit. When he came back he decided to finish up school so he went to University of Maryland, Baltimore County to study Information system. Brad's years of experience have allowed him to work in helpdesk, system analysis, system/network administrator, network consultant and system architecture. Check out his blog, IT Network Guru. |
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