Thanks for your interest in Cuil and welcome to our blog. We’ve taken a deep breath and though we are putting our heads back down to work hard, we think it’s important to come up for air and let you know what’s happening with our search service and our company.
This blog will be the place where we announce improvements to our search, describe new features and provide a glimpse of what goes on inside our small start-up. It can be a place to talk about what people like or are still seeking in search, or to discuss tech policy issues, such as privacy and security.
As always, your input is important. Please keep your comments and suggestions coming and feel free to chime in on a topic you see discussed here. To keep the community constructive, we’ve created a Comments Policy. Please take a moment to read it over (it’s short) before diving into a discussion.
Thanks for reading and thanks for using Cuil.
belkheiri elheddi · Sep 25, 05:20 AM
Thanks for cuil and thanks for Cuil.
f.g.s.---aka---infoman---ohio-peace · Sep 25, 07:33 AM
thanks for new search engine,,,made me feel good for there is pleanty for everyone,,,,keep it going,,,,work hard,,,
your ideas and efforts are appricated—f.g.s.—-aka,,,infoman,,,ohio,,,peace
aravinthan · Sep 25, 10:47 AM
hi good to see a new search engine… i like the looks of the website..
all the best
vicky · Sep 25, 01:13 PM
Please update the blog frequently/the rankings are not the most relevant but sometimes the results look good/however, the algorithm that displays the pics surely aint great
James · Sep 25, 05:39 PM
It is a great company. Hope you can beat Google one day!!
gopakumar · Sep 26, 12:15 AM
A GOOD Search Engine, Fantastic approach to view the search contents with its relatives on desk in a fraction of seconds. Congratulations! Congratulations! No doubt, in the near future this search engine will be the first option for millions. Keep it up by adding other/similar services being offered by competitors.
max donati · Sep 26, 05:58 AM
hope that you can cover the hole leaved form other search engine.
all the best!
divingbrit · Sep 26, 01:38 PM
Like the idea of a new Search Engine to keep the others on their toes!
Question – There are many links that go out of date, any thoughts on how you can stop showing them as still being relevent.
I notice that two of my sites which have been recently moved will of course still show the old info. One of these days someone may come up with away of deleting this info, will it be you?
Best of luck
Heston · Sep 26, 02:19 PM
@divingbrit: Each time Cuil crawls the web it makes note of updated pages and shows the changes in search results. If your sites were recently changed, then it’s likely Cuil hasn’t had a chance to visit them since the update. Cuil is constantly crawling the web so it’s just a matter of time before your changes are picked up.
Through the same system Cuil can also determine if a site is no longer available and stop showing it in results. The old site may still appear in results between when the site was changed (or removed) and when Cuil visits it again.
I hope this answers your question.
Russ H · Sep 27, 06:07 AM
I teach Internet search classes and would like to know if you will be adding the following two very useful features:
the command… link:
I use the link: command all the time to find valuable pages built by “someone without a life” who has already researched a particular topic. For example… If I were looking for port authorities around the world, I would ask YAHOO, to find web pages that simultaneously contain links to two port authority web sites like this:
link:http://www.portofantwerp.be link:http://www.portvancouver.com
If you enter both of these search terms into the YAHOO query box, you will find great web pages like this:
http://users.hal-pc.org/~nugent/port.html
(You can try this at YAHOO, NOT GOOGLE, Google does terrible at this) .
The other feature to consifer adding, is being able to limit searches to particular filetypes such as PDF or PPT. For Many topics a PDF of PPT document will contain much better detailed content than html web pages.
Thanks, Russ
Andrew Heenan · Sep 27, 12:46 PM
There’s plenty of room for a new Search Engine – but, so far, too much of your new stuff is gimmicky, or a little silly. Yes, you might be indexing 3x the pages Google does, but even if you are, so what? You must really be scraping up those MFA pages and parked URLs!
What matters to 99.9999% of a searchers is not what you search, but what you deliver: it’s the results that matter. Keep working on that, and you’ll get much more support than trying to score brownie points off Google!
Vahid · Sep 27, 10:34 PM
i predict an exceptional future for this search engine. congratulations geniuses! thanks for your effort. There was no intelligible changes recently in Google (your closest opponent). it make google move to reach you. a great match! Cuil vs. Google
Tabletta · Sep 28, 11:54 AM
Very fast and good looking!!! I want to be on the top 10 with CUIL ))) Thank you!
Heston · Sep 28, 01:21 PM
@Russ H: Thanks for the suggestions. We’re working on it — stay tuned.
Arimathéia · Sep 29, 11:20 AM
Great system! Congrats! I would like to have a way to use it directly on my Safari web browser.
Sovidiu · Sep 30, 02:10 AM
I hope you can start tackling on international issues such as indexing web sites whose content is not displayed in English — Cuil has some difficulties ranking them.
sandeep · Sep 30, 06:31 PM
i like cuil very much and now i am using it quite oftenly, i am waiting for cuil ads like google adwords, want to see how ads look like
Warm Regards
Sandeep