What's the Big Deal with Cuil Search Engine?
Filed Under (Business) by Rajesh Kumar on 28-07-2008
Frankly, I never use CNN to follow tech news. But I found this as the lead story few minutes back. A new search engine is coming into existence. Cuil is yet another search engine but this one has a pedigree worth a mention- it is founded by an ex-Googler Anna Pattersen who has earlier sold her company to Google. The business of search just got interesting.
Per TechCrunch, Cuil has massive index and that’s the real hype around Cuil. But one attempt at running a few searches will tell you, it is far from what you would expect. What I found interesting is the rendering, which comes with separate streams of result (networking sites, pictures etc). What is not so exciting are the results. I for example do not exist on Cuil and I could not ascertain whether my blog does!
So is this the Google beater the world has been waiting for?
And what’s the business model? Even the most respected sites are quite on this aspect of Cuil but one can safely assume when search is around, its application to advertising cannot be far behind? And just btw, has Mr. Ballmer sent his scouts to explore the acquisition rightaway?
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Everyone seems to start off searching for themselves
I did too, and the results were quite disappointing. My Twitter page is more important than my blog? My blog doesn’t seem to even exist anyway.
Then, it’s slow: and then there is this.
We’ll be back soon…
Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.
Thanks for your patience.
And it’s just day 1 !
Lekhni, everyone across the world including the TechCrunch guys have done so- Ego surfing is a bigger sport than usually acknowledged!!