In other words, if you are searching for dynamic content your results will likely be irrelevant.

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.

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

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.