So I’ve been playing with the new search engine Cuil a bit. I’m not going to get into the user interface, which I think is pretty good but weird, rather the search results. I’m sure things are going to change, and this whole early release has some functionality missing, but the search is just plain wrong.
Take for example a search for Lawpower, my design site. I’ve worked hard to get #1 on google, even though the guys at Lawpower law firm have the .com and more good links. So I’m numbers 1, 3-9 on google as of this writing. the .com guys are number 2 and 10.
Now do the search on cuil. I’m in the top left corner, but my code site is listed above my main page. Where’s the lawyers with the .com? Nowhere to be found, in any results! How is that possible?
Another oddity, I’ve been working with my mom’s dance studio website to get her ranking better for “kids dance lessons” (11 at time of this writing, so close!). Course I wanted to see what that ranked on cuil, and it get an error saying that there were no results?
So for now, cuil is totally worthless for me. It’s a cool idea, I guess, but I don’t see why Google or any other search engine could change a theme and destroy them. I’ll try again in a week or so and see if anything happens.
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