The next Google?
Sidin Vadukut -
Monday, July 28, 2008 5:05 PM
Yes. What a desperate-for-traffic headline that is?
But tis true. The internets are ablaze with rumours of a new competitor Google that may finally not go bankrupt a few minutes after the press conference.
This is what Webware has to say:
There's a big new search engine launching Monday: Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, it's pitched as bigger, faster, and better than Google's flagship search engine in pretty much every way.
However I must immediately say that I have seen a number of Google-wannabes sprout up over the last many years and sink without trace shortly thereafter. For instance there was Alltheweb that promised to be bigger than Google (more pages, or more links or more something or the other). All to no avail. Alltheweb is now a part of Yahoo by the look of things.
I gave Cuil (pronounced "Cool") a trial and the results were pretty pathetic. Way off target in terms of accuracy and relevance. Comments on the Webware post seem to share that view:
Extremely poor search results. Some queries got "no results" when same query
on Google got over a million hits.
Google could use some competition. Competition. With a capital C. Cuil is currently way short of making anyone at the Googleplex call emergency meetings. Perhaps they (Cuil) will get better with time.
But perhaps they won't.
I am a committed Googler. What your favourite/secret/embarassing search engine of choice?