Comments on: Search for “Cuil” on Cuil… They Can’t Find Their Own Site! http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/ People soshalize. They don't care how it's spelled. They just do it. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:01:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: 3lilgems http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-648 3lilgems Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:32:18 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-648 i thought they would improve after almost three months in existence, but still it can't find my blog. i wonder why? another simple search engine, find.com beat them on this. i thought they would improve after almost three months in existence, but still it can’t find my blog. i wonder why? another simple search engine, find.com beat them on this.

]]> By: Turulcsirip - Garami Zoltán http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Turulcsirip - Garami Zoltán Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:30:41 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-564 [...] http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/ « el?z? | Garami Zoltán — 2008. 08. 05. 01:30 [...] [...] http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/ « el?z? | Garami Zoltán — 2008. 08. 05. 01:30 [...]

]]> By: Turulcsirip - Garami Zoltán http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-563 Turulcsirip - Garami Zoltán Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:30:41 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-563 [...] http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/ « el?z? | Garami Zoltán — 2008. 08. 05. 01:30 [...] [...] http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/ « el?z? | Garami Zoltán — 2008. 08. 05. 01:30 [...]

]]> By: Social Media Marketing Posts that are Igniting–8/1 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Social Media Marketing Posts that are Igniting–8/1 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:37:23 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-557 [...] Search for “Cuil” on Cuil…They can’t find their own site! [...] [...] Search for “Cuil” on Cuil…They can’t find their own site! [...]

]]> By: And on the 3rd Day, Cuil Lists Itself on Search for "Cuil" | Social News Watch http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-554 And on the 3rd Day, Cuil Lists Itself on Search for "Cuil" | Social News Watch Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:50:46 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-554 [...] reported in TechCrunch and further explored in Soshable, this wasn’t the case for a little while.  In the hustle and bustle of promoting the launch [...] [...] reported in TechCrunch and further explored in Soshable, this wasn’t the case for a little while.  In the hustle and bustle of promoting the launch [...]

]]> By: ACH-writer http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-553 ACH-writer Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:31:58 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-553 I've become weirdly obsessed with seeing just how bad Cuil is. I keep going back to plug in obvious and easy searches so I can laugh at how bad the results are. Wow. A bright spot: Somehow in the last 24 hours the algorithm has changed so that now it at least manages to find my own site on a search of my name. Something it couldn't do yesterday. I’ve become weirdly obsessed with seeing just how bad Cuil is. I keep going back to plug in obvious and easy searches so I can laugh at how bad the results are. Wow.

A bright spot: Somehow in the last 24 hours the algorithm has changed so that now it at least manages to find my own site on a search of my name. Something it couldn’t do yesterday.

]]> By: Jay http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Jay Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:45:30 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-552 Yeah, how about that reversal of fortunes? Cuil was all over the internet, all over the TV even and they totally disappointed. It couldn't find some really obvious search queries when I looked for business by both name and address. It can't find itself even. Sometimes it just returned an error and couldn't find anything. Very disappointing. Maybe there's no such thing as bad publicity and people will come back and try it again in the future but it's hard to argue that they didn't squander a HUGE opportunity with this launch. Yeah, how about that reversal of fortunes? Cuil was all over the internet, all over the TV even and they totally disappointed. It couldn’t find some really obvious search queries when I looked for business by both name and address. It can’t find itself even. Sometimes it just returned an error and couldn’t find anything. Very disappointing.

Maybe there’s no such thing as bad publicity and people will come back and try it again in the future but it’s hard to argue that they didn’t squander a HUGE opportunity with this launch.

]]> By: vladinho blog » Archive » cuil.com http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-551 vladinho blog » Archive » cuil.com Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:53:02 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-551 [...] langa asta zoso a trimis pe twitter ceva interesant. Cat de bun e cuil.com vedeti aici Scris in: d'ale mele, [...] [...] langa asta zoso a trimis pe twitter ceva interesant. Cat de bun e cuil.com vedeti aici Scris in: d’ale mele, [...]

]]> By: Sam http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-550 Sam Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:19:28 +0000 http://soshable.com/cuil-search-engine-fail/#comment-550 Bad press isn't always the worst thing that can happen. I'd never heard of them until this and I'll probably drop by in a few months or so to see if they've improved. They will at least be remembered, better than nobody knowing or caring. Interestingly, they don't seem to have dealt with page redirection correctly which is something I have never seen on a search engine before. See the second result for this page which is a placeholder for a redirect: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=berkshire&sl=long Bad press isn’t always the worst thing that can happen. I’d never heard of them until this and I’ll probably drop by in a few months or so to see if they’ve improved. They will at least be remembered, better than nobody knowing or caring.

Interestingly, they don’t seem to have dealt with page redirection correctly which is something I have never seen on a search engine before. See the second result for this page which is a placeholder for a redirect:

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=berkshire&sl=long

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