Comments on: Cuill – Have We Found a Google Killer?

By: Ryan Mangaldan

Ryan Mangaldan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:57:19 +0000

At the present time, Google killer is not yet found but they are trying their best to locate one. They want to make sure that it will be effective.

By: The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4Cast #98: KML, Video Mapping, “Touchy” Computers, Cuill is Cool

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:40:53 +0000

[...] Cuill – Have We Found a Google Killer? (SEO Pitfall) [...]

By: Rip

Rip — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:48:01 +0000

Some say ‘Cuill’, others say ‘Cuil’. The logo at the start of this article shows ‘Cuill’, but the site is ‘Cuil’. Seems like a poor start if they can’t even get their branding simple to start with.

By: clon

clon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:26:41 +0000

I did some searches with that search engine and found nothing excited about the results, in fact, i do agree with this other post http://www.smallboxconsulting.com/blog/2008/07/cuilcom-is-not-so-cool.html when they say that some search results are not relevant to your request, the simple test is:

-go to cuil.com
-type in the word cuil
-click the search button
-review the first 3 pages
-give up and go back to google.com where the same search will bring you the site itself, a yahoo news related article, another article regarding the search engine in informationweek.com and even you “constancia de cuil” (cuil constance) from a site in argentina.

I don’t know how the google guys do it, i’ve seen a mini-google appliance working and they just give me the information i need in the first 10 pages of results, in fact, i only click on the page 11th of search results just to see how the goooogle word increases.

But… hey… what is your experience with the search results of cuil?

By: Son Nguyen

Son Nguyen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:28:43 +0000

Today Cuill raised another $25 Mil second round. I can’t wait to see the result of an impressive team. It’s definitely interesting to see more startups from ex-Googlers like Cuill, FriendFeed.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:05:01 +0000

Vanessa,
I would like to concur, making negative comments at this time might just be premature, however, there is still very little information that they are have provided since the launch (sorry, no launch). I thank you for the comment, but I am still waiting for more information, as I am sure that many are!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:01:40 +0000

I would have to concur with the above statements. I banned them from my site last night, but did send them an email explaining why and to be fair did get a response. I have since replied, giving a more in depth explanation why I felt this action was necessary. BTW according to the email I received Jim is a guy called James Akers.

I for one would not like to make negative comments at this stage but in all honesty they were crawling my site nearly 24/7, and I was starting to have some problems. Hope that they can resolve the issues they are currently having because at the moment they are no inspiring confidence

By: pittfall

pittfall — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:26:12 +0000

Greg,
Thanks for the comment. I would suggest that until they have launched (or the smoke has cleared and they have gotten their crawlers under control).
Don’t risk your existing traffic.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:07:11 +0000

Cuill not kool. Like most people, I’m tired of them. Their robot does not adhere to any standard to block them and they are not capable of handling UTF-8 encoding. I find it hard to believe that their software was written by anybody that has any legitimate programming experience.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:06:34 +0000

Roberto,
I imagine that they aren’t paying him in shoes and feed, but Cuill still have not given us much to look at… except for the strong horses!

By: Adivera Web Development

Adivera Web Development — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:25:10 +0000

they are indexing my websites too. i would like to know more about them and their targets in the web.
i like the personal touch of their website, specially with the picture of jim. i only don’t know who is jim ? is it the man behind the horses or is he one of them?

best regards from switzerland

roberto

By: pittfall

pittfall — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:02:56 +0000

David,
Thank you for your comment. So far, there appears much to be desired, however I am sure that they have the capability to become much more than they are now. Does this mean that they will contend with Google (MSN or Yahoo for that matter)? Not yet.

By: David Formosa

David Formosa — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:22:41 +0000

It has one of the worst behaved spiders out there. If the spider is indicative of the rest of there code then then Google is not going to be worried. Also given the rate that people are defensively blocking the spider from there sites it will never be anywhere near complete.

By: Google maintains its lead in search - squeezes Yahoo and MSN more

Google maintains its lead in search - squeezes Yahoo and MSN more — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:23:45 +0000

[...] watch out for Cuill, a search engine startup started by ex-Googlers which is currently in stealth mode and plans to [...]

By: pittfall

pittfall — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:09:33 +0000

Sam,
Thanks for the comment and I am sorry to hear that you are getting hit heavily and I am sure that there will be more quirks that they will have to clean up. Have you notified them of this issue?

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:42:22 +0000

Google killer definitely not, but they are killing my website at this moment… My website is getting bombarded by their bots and error logs on the websever are growing, looks like they are having major problems indexing my website.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000

Scott, Thanks for the comment. The folks at Cuill have also released the ip addresses of their crawlers:

208.36.144.6
208.36.144.7
208.36.144.8
208.36.144.9
208.36.144.10
38.99.13.121
38.99.13.122
38.99.13.123
38.99.13.124
38.99.13.125
38.99.13.126
38.99.44.101
38.99.44.102
38.99.44.103
38.99.44.104
38.99.44.105
38.99.44.106
64.1.215.162
64.1.215.163
64.1.215.164
64.1.215.165
64.1.215.166

Their geographic locations are: New York - New Jersey - class A 64 block Texas - class A 38 block Illinois - class A 208 block Oh, and it looks like they are looking to hire more staff.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:40:13 +0000

I can verify that they are indeed indexing websites, as Twiceler-0.9 has been steadily accessing my website for the past 5+ hours.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:15:18 +0000

Thanks Bill! Yeah, this start up has really caused a stir with me too! I am sure that there will be more info coming out in the next few months. With any project that is looking for funding usually requires results… so I guess we will see.

Cheers

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:36:50 +0000

This is one of the search startups that I’m really excited about. I’m a fan of Anna Patterson’s, and expect some good things out of the cuill gang.

By: BioTecK.NET | Log Into My World |

BioTecK.NET | Log Into My World | — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Anyway, I’m very curious about this new search engine which says that it can compete with Google, but let’s wait and see before we speculate! Source: CrunchBase.com, Search Engineland andSearch Engineland