Um the below is too risque (NSFW) for TechCruch?

Chulalongkorn University Language Institute CULI - http://www.culi.chula.ac.th/

I keep testing the search and all I get is that the servers are too busy and can’t process my request. Is anyone else having the same problem? I’m in Dubai, but I don’t think that should matter. Did all the press nuke their servers?

No results because of high load…

Due to excessive load, our servers didn’t return results. Please try your search again.

…that’s embarassing

velioncho
Get a life the thing is garbage…

If you type cul.com, you’ll have a nice surprise too.

So how is this tech news? Is Techcrunch getting paid to write about Cuil?

I like how searching for ‘cuil’ on cuil’s search engine returns nothing relevant about the company..

Guys,
don’t be too rash on this company. too early.
Google evolved over the time to where it is now. You give enough time to this company and see. My point is that these guys show better results for some of the keywords I have used, - that makes me believe that they have better algorithms/engine but that they still have to do lot of improvements. Definitely there are some good brains behind this. Most of you who simply say you did not get results for a specific search, you have no clues what goes behind. If you are looking to compare all results side by side to Google, then do it after six months are so. However some of the results I saw from Cuil, they are way way better than Google, that makes me believe these guys have laid a good foundation and now they can build on top of it. Today’s press coverage is definitely help them to pull more smart folks from the search world, to improve on the product.

cuil can’t even find itself… enter cuil in the search bar and everything else pops up…

It doesn’t matter how many results pages are displayed for Keyword Searches on either Google or Cuil. What matters to the end User is finding the relevant information and the right link on the First Page.

Does any end User really care about finding 1,000,000 results for their chosen keyword search.
If Cuil really wants to eat into Google Search Marketplace, it needs to work really hard in the area of presenting a results First Page.
Google is still really naff in that area. Whenever I do a search there for cnet, it never shows cnet.com in the top four results.

I wish Cuil all the best in their quest to be a Search player, but I must make Two important points about their new website.
Firstly the homepage looks so dark and bleak. Compare Ask to Cuil.
A Search Engine Homepage should look more bright and inviting.

Secondly the name is so bad. Even though the name is suppose to be pronounced ‘cool’ - as a word of mouth brand name, how many people are going to spell the word ‘cuil’ on a search engine site like Google, of course.

This is pretty funny. When you type ‘cuil’ cuil.com doesn’t give you any relevant results! Google does, though…

I found this interesting article
New Search Engine, Cuil, Finally Ready to Compete With Google.

Yikes, what’s the story with the images that are shown with the search results? Seems to be the same images returned for different sites which really confuses me when I’m looking at the results. The images may have a meaning - and I kind of like the columnar view - but right now it just makes my head spin

(and on a self-important note our site shows up on page 7 which is kind of annoying ).

I agree that we shouldn’t necessarily make snap judgments about a new service, and websites need time to grow into their own and work out their kinks. I have found the same to definitely be true with my own site, and it’s really a never ending process. But if you’re going to send out a press release claiming to have one upped Google, you had better be prepared to go head to head lest that press release accomplishes its purpose.

In the case of cuil.com, not only did they get press here, but they were one of the top headlines on cnn.com claiming to be “bigger than Google” before their servers couldn’t handle the search load. The fact is, there aren’t really 120 billion web pages that matter (there aren’t 40 billion that matter), what’s important is that you have relevant and up-to-date info on the ones that do matter. Google does, Cuil doesn’t. I run one of the largest sites in the Middle East, all of the major search engines index our pages daily, Cuil hasn’t been there for at least 2 weeks. Many of the (random and not necessarily relevant) pages of ours that they’ve indexed no longer exist. The comments above about searching cuil on google vs. searching it on cuil ironically proves that very point.

The headlines will forget about cuil tomorrow (if not today), and they will probably have to dethrone one of the top three search engines before any major media risks giving them any press again. What’s worse, however, is that they had a shot with a few million customers expecting to see something un-imaginable, something better than Google! And I’d be surprised if even one of those users walked away feeling that their expectations had been met. Cuil may have a great idea, a great product, and the perfect algorithm, but they hatched a preemie and instantly made their job a whole lot harder, if not impossible.

I think I like the Idea of a challenger to Google, It favors the users. The layout is impressive and all that. But Cuil failed my first test. CUIL CANNOT FIND ITSELF!

In Spanish CULO means ASS.

@Qubo
In Spanish it is common to tell a girl “me gusta tu culo” which means “I like your ass.”

Huge amounts of traffic already! Picking out a black surfboard. Where are the video results?
-Realview TV

Well, I must say that the launching of Cuil is good news for investors. 1/10 of Google’s huh…Well, that’s a big saving of bucks!