Is Cuil to be the Next Google?
This blog entry was posted on July 30, 2008.
Last Monday, Cuil (pronounced “cool’) was announced as the new search engine. Can this start-up search engine be the next Google? Cuil claims that it “has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.”
Cuil was founded by a group of search pioneers, including search engineer Tom. Costello former Google engineers Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier. They picked up $33 million in venture capital to launch the search engine.
So how is Cuil different than Google? They’re claiming bragging rights for search index size: 120 billion Web pages. While Patterson says that’s 3X the size of Google’s index, most people acknowledge that size doesn’t matter.
The approach to search is different. Culi instead analyzes the context of each page and the concepts behind each user search request. So Cuil apparently assesses the actual content of a page.
Was this Hype or Reality?
Rand Fishkin, CEO of seomoz.org did an interesting analysis comparing Cuil to the other major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live and Ask). He compared the search engines on the basis of Relevancy, coverage, freshness, diversity and user experience. Cuil ranked dead last in this analysis
Cuil is supposed come from an old Irish word that means “knowledge”. Members of an online Irish language forum say the word is most often translated to mean “corner” or “nook,” but has sometimes been used for “hazel,” as in the nut.
It appears that Cuil was prematurely released to the public. Will they recover and take off? Time will tell.
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