Cuil is not so cool

In case you have not heard, there’s (yet) another ‘Google-beater‘ search engine on the block.  What am I referring to?  www.cuil.com of course!

How cool is Cuil?

I REALLY wanted to like Cuil (pronounced cool).  I wanted there to be a serious contender to the Google search engine crown, because the marketplace ALWAYS does better when there’s some competition and at present – Google has a NEAR monopoly.

Giving Cuil some time to settle

Early reviews of Cuil were full of complaints regarding the fact it was either slow or off-line.  In fairness, what did these reviewers expect from the first day of a new search engine?  The amount of pre-launch publicity Cuil attracted, meant it was highly likely that it would not be able to cope with the massive spike in traffic on day one.

So, I decided to give Cuil a while to settle before I put it through it’s paces.  On the plus side, the service was working and very fast too.  On the down-side, the results it returned were (in my opinion) extremely poor.  I would like to think that it will improve in time; after all, these are the very early days.  I shall check it again in a month and see if Cuil is any closer to providing me with a serious alternative to Google.

What have YOUR experiences of Cuil been?  Let me know!