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    Wednesday's Question of the Day (7/30)...cuil follow this discussion

    started 15 months ago by
    posted in SOURCING Techniques and Methodologies

    Is cuil cooler than google? Not everyone things so....

    http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_should_t.html

    what do you think? anyone using it?

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    • 1 point 15 months ago

      I was very excited to try cuil, but after searching for my company's name, my company's products, and then our own website by name, we still did not show on any page prior to page 11! When a search engine cannot return your own website as the top match, or even the 250th, for a search for your website by name, that is one broken engine.

      Unfortunately, I suspect that the PR was way ahead of the technology and they will not survive. The paradigm was flawed: they claimed to index 2x as many web pages. I've never found that too few results was a search engine problem. The problem has always been poor rankings of results (although google does a fantastic job of this), so why adding 2x as many results was going to be appealing is beyond me.

      That said, I hope they can fix the problems and survive.

    • 1 point 15 months ago

      We've checked it out. And we've read the reviews. I think in a few months this will be a very valuable tool. But nothing is perfect when it first launches, right? Google had it's own issues when it launched.

      I encourage everyone who uses/tries it to provide very specific feedback on challenges you run into so that they can make adjustments to increase it's value for us in the recruiting world.

      I love competition!

    • 1 point 15 months ago

      I tried Cuil a few days ago after a forward of the press release from a colleague. I shall leave him nameless because I think he was just forwarding it for the curiosity factor, not recommending / having tried it yet. It is awful for all the reasons conveyed in the comments under the link in Madeline's original post - primarily slowness and bad quality results, from a sourcer's perspective. I can't believe Cuil did such a public launch and didn't even label it alpha or beta version. The press release set high expectations, and they *way* underdelivered. It'll take a long time to recover from this bad first impression, assuming they can make the fixes. Don't waste your time, people.