Comments on: Cuil Not Near a Google Killer

By: Laurie/Halo Secretarial

Laurie/Halo Secretarial — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:43:27 +0000

I know that Cuil was a topic of conversation around Twitter too, and with similar results to yours. Google is my usual choice and like you Yahoo is my second, and was in fact my first choice until I started using gmail and made igoogle my home page.

By: Michael Blachly

Michael Blachly — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:05:29 +0000

Steve,

I agree with you on this one. I did my own research prior to your article and my results were the exact same. I also agree on the random photos. I have a photo website. It appeared when you search my name but it showed photos that I never took. Anyways, Cuil may someday take over but it is a far cry from winning me over at this point.

By: Steve Matthews

Steve Matthews — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:16:55 +0000

Thanks Bob. I’ve fixed the spelling. (Who uses the ‘ph’ version anyway… I know, I know, Mr. & Mrs. Harper did.)

Seems I can’t spell the name of my own PM … was ‘Steven Harper’ and now remedied to ‘Stephen Harper’.

On a positive note, the search results at Cuil are even worse, with the government website showing up at spots 9 & 10 rather than #2.

Did I mention Google corrects my spelling errors? ;)

By: Bob Tarantino

Bob Tarantino — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:09:19 +0000

re your first example – if you use “Stephen Harper”, you get slightly different results… ;o)