We are pleased to announce the arrival of maps and local listings to Cuil search results. Users can now search for restaurants, local businesses and over 3.5M other points of interest across the United States. Cuil has partnered with MapQuest, the #1 mapping site, to provide these listings, along with interactive maps to deliver an engaging local search experience. It’s now easy to find address and contact information and even get driving directions.
Searching for local results is easy. Just provide a search term and give a city, state or zipcode. You can search for a particular business name like Salt House CA, a category such as gas stations 94025 or even landmarks like AT&T Park San Francisco or Palo Alto Museums. If Cuil has found any local results for your search, they will appear in the middle column along with an interactive map, allowing you to get contact information or driving directions via MapQuest.
This is only the first version of local results so there’s a lot more to come. As always, if you have any suggestions, find any bugs or generally just want to get in touch, drop us a note in the comments. Maps are one more way we’re continually improving the Cuil search experience. Give it a try!
Praveen Gagan · Nov 25, 03:46 AM
It is good to have this new engine for search
Bill · Nov 25, 11:35 AM
Thank you for the CUIL Search Engine. It couldn’t have come at a better time! Privacy is a huge issue at the moment, even if many people don’t realize it. The Maps functionality provides yet another extremely useful tool to the CUIL arsenal. Below are two of my primary recommendations.
1. Possible option to change from “magazine style” layout to a traditional inline view.
2. More importantly in my mind is privacy sensitive email.. Like Gmail only private and secure. I would also actively create/maintain CUIL email/map add-ons for FireFox! This will help to increase the popularity of the Search Engine.
Nick · Dec 1, 12:03 PM
Recommendations:
1)Have the Video Search search videos from Youtube, Metacafe, Revver, Viddler, Veoh, Yahoo Video, Google Video, Myspace, and more. The Hulu part is great, but more is needed. Maybe have a Cuil video site to upload videos to. Anything is possible.
2)Update the blog more often.
3)Have a place on the site where you can register.
4)The Mapquest part is cool and works, but only from the links in the blog. When I do it with my area code and others, it does not work.
Thanks and keep up the good work!