{"id":2568,"date":"2008-07-28T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2008-07-28T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T21:05:51","slug":"i-hope-cuil-isnt-an-epic-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/07\/28\/i-hope-cuil-isnt-an-epic-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope Cuil isn’t an “epic fail”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a Web geek, the biggest news today is the launch of Cuil.com, a new search engine with a strange Irish name (which is pronounced “cool”) and what it claims is a really big, er… index. The topic has been dominating Techmeme for the better part of the day, with the official Cuil launch post only recently taking over the top spot<\/a> from Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch post about it. Everyone has an opinion about the company, from the size of their index to their (allegedly) dumb name, or the earth-shattering revelation that they are going to have a tough time<\/a> competing with a little outfit called Google (gee — ya think?)<\/p>\n

On Twitter, the Web 2.0 water-cooler, most of the discussion has revolved around the ways in which the new search service sucks<\/a> — or rather, is an “epic fail,” as the kids like to say. Searching for the company’s own name doesn’t<\/a> turn up the search engine’s website (Doh!), and searching for other common terms or names either doesn’t turn up anything, or a small number of inadequate<\/a> and\/or stupid results. The site is down<\/a>. The whole Irish legend about Finn and the salmon<\/a> of knowledge is weird. There’s no way it can compete against Google — and so on.<\/p>\n

At the risk of being seen as not critical enough, I’m going to throw a vote out there for Cuil. I think the service sounds like an interesting alternative to Google, or Yahoo or MSN for that matter — not that I ever use those services, of course. I don’t particularly care about the size of Cuil’s index<\/a> (insert double entendre here). But I am interested in having alternatives for search. For me, it’s about finding what I want quickly, and the reality is that Google continues to be littered with poor quality results. If Cuil can solve that problem, then I hope they stick around.<\/p>\n

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If you’re a Web geek, the biggest news today is the launch of Cuil.com, a new search engine with a strange Irish name (which is pronounced “cool”) and what it claims is a really big, er… index. The topic has been dominating Techmeme for the better part of the day, with the official Cuil launch … <\/p>\n

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