Is cuil less relevant search engine although quicker [kwiqq]

Posted on | July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

cuil is a news browser launched today which claims to search more pages on the web, than any search engine. Three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

I like the idea of a startup taking on the giants.  The secret to cuil is the way it handles web queries, apparently it has found a way to scale this better than Google. So I thought to put it to the test. Now as an end user I don’t care about the technology, speed, scalability and busines.

Ok so I live in Brighton, UK. We have two major universities: Brighton University and Sussex University. Lets search for the term Brighton Universities:

 
It listed Brighton Sussex Medical School although Brighton University was on the second page and Sussex ?? No where. Whilst on Google Sussex and Brighton are the first 2 links:

Next lets try Business Social Networks: Here I’m assuming sites like LinkedIn, Xing etc would be higher on the list:

LinkedIn ?? Whilst LinkedIn is sprinkled all over Google:

I think Cuil has made a breakthrough in the technology powering it, maybe now it just needs to order search results better.

Tags: cuil, Google, search, relevant, quick

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