I found another niche search engine….
a href="http://gezzmo-searchengine.com" Gezzmo Search engine /a

Searched for "how many shoes in the world":

Results:
www.cuil.com
1 result = 
www.birddogbowling.com/ebonite-maxim-captain-midnight-p-155.html
"For The Bowler Who Puts A High Priority On Bowling In Style......"

What?

www.google.com:
7.2mil and all the results on the first page are relevant to shoes.


Conclusion - looks like these ex-Google geeks are the dud squad and that google is probably better off without them. Then again it's early days but so far they are rubbish.

Reminds me of using dogpile. Quoted two word searches produce many unrelated pages. Quoted three word searches ... forget it ! You'll never find exactly what your looking for.

Got his crawler from crawling my site *thousands* of times each day. Yes, I mean THOUSANDS!!! Darn crawler would crawl it over and over and over and over........ and then some...

It ignored robots.txt as well then, and I hope it now follows instructions. I didn't mind it crawling, but seeing 300 or more MB bandwidth being chewed up every day from the same crawler got my goat (I don't even have that much material on the site).

I finally got a response when I sent enough emails.

I might give it a try again and unblock them as this was several months ago when it was still in beta status. I give them credit for having the proper information so I could look them up.

Oh, the http://msdewey.com is a humorous Microsoft Live Search engine. Try searching for "hormones"; she'll sing your answer, just be sure no kids are around to hear! The results are limited, but she is a search engine with attitude.


He's even worse with computers than my dad is.. which is quite a feat.

three cheers for Drashek, may he find his intestants inside an ASK.com server..

The search is case sensitive, how nuts is that?

I cooled "inquirer" and it got me here, but not to this article. I think it's a good sign that their servers are overloaded at the outset, it beats the hell out of no traffic at all.

BTW, let's start a trend where we call cooling "cooling" because I really don't want to be typing "cuiling". Is there any genuine youtube leprechaun footage?

Lol, Cuil can't seem to find it's own page from typing "cuil" or "cuil.com"...Google's #1 result for cuil search is the actual cuil.com site. google ftw. Google also finds itself perfectly fine.

Ultie now changes name to Ultee', so search engines can contain Flame of quadrascenic porportions. Question: if my search bar states ASK are only ASK given honour of indexing: the Ultie?

Ahso, What happened to microsoft search? Is Microsoft just name grabbed by anyone & exploited to extent that even Microsoft Corp has NO use for its own name? Did your search bar on IE7 change in last few days from microsoft to ASK? Mine Did & ultie asks, how many search bars does Ultie need to penetrate entire Cloud? New Recommendation: Add every search Bar You can find to your primary browser.
drashek


this thing is terrible, I'm sure it's overloaded because I have been hearing a lot of news reports talking about it, but I searched for a simple term out of curiousity "guitar hero 3", first it says it found 51,000 pages, but doesn't load the list, then I try again and it says that there are no results, when I try a third time, it says it found 124,000 results, and again the list doesn't load.

Why haven't search outfits figured out users don't want to be confused when they visit a search engine, which is the first reason why people use google. 

I mean, i went to this web search webpage impersonator and tried to do a search.

"Dbase2 to access"

And in one of the first awful result colums I get this: "'Special Police Officer Resumes in Upper Marlboro, ..."

Seriously, what the heck is that?

Poodle Faker: 4,760 results :- Google 8,260

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=poodle+faker

It's launched today, not indexed a fraction of the content, has less architecture, and your forgetting about the quality of the results.

Yes the front page is shite, it is very slow and they need to add more architecture, but I am sure it will get up to the minimum performance level to offer a usable service over the coming days or weeks.

What is wrong with people, I think civilisation has hit it's peak, now people are just going to get more rude, more selfish, less patient, and more aggressive.

I searched for INQUIRER and it didn't found anything! :)

the results page for cuil is way too "busy" what with pictures and results in a grid instead of a column

also, their name is pretentious

The interface SUCKS, it remembers me of Live Search. And I searched for my nickname and it returned old forum posts that aren't even online anymore.

CUIL? Cool? More likely it's "See you ill."

Great, another search engine, more choice is good, but really, that name stinks. So their track record is:

-Bad Performance
-Server Crash
-Dumb Name

Even the vole picked a half-decent name.

It's DOA.

I tried it..
IT"S SLOW, CUMBERSOME, CLUMSY.. very counter-intuitive. it showed me stuff from 2004 when I wanted to get the latest and greatest..

You know what it feels like? Microsofts LIVE Search..

exactly that which you DON'T want to use. 

It doesn't know what "AT&T" is. (Lucky bastards.)

It seems to have a very broken idea of relevance. E.g. "Paris Orsay University" (see the VP Products's bio, if it's back up now ;-) produces a pile of deep content, but not a link to the university's home page, or any clue that "University of Paris XI" might be another good search term.

Good luck to them, but I'm underwhelmed so far.

What a stupid name for a website.

I initially thought it was another fine waste of (Irish) taxpayer's money on an Irish-language marekting scam.

Cuil's search results look like the layout you expect for spam ads.

That, and it's results are pretty irrelevant. Search for 'cuil' and you get nothing on the recent news or the search engine itself. It may search a lot of pages, but it's search needs tweaking. Especially for single words.

I like the black background on the main page, though.

I have tried this search engine.
It's definitely have a good interface.
But, has less results.
on some searches it returned 0 results where google was able to find 1400.
I othere cases it was able to return 3,000,000 where google had 20,000,000.
i did almost the same few years ago to test google, msn, yahoo and few others.
Still using google.

search "convert html to xml"

Google: 37,600,000 results.

Cuil: 0 results.

Err... ? Perhaps those billions they've indexed don't include on of the 37 million ?

Not very Cuil to me !!! Didn't even know what a 'Poodle Faker' is... Google did...