Cuil (presumably pronounced “Cool”) has attempted to take on Google as the new search engine:
Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.
I’m not quite sure it’s there yet with this rather jolly search (see screenshot) where the first result sees Gocompare stealing the limelight with their logo. But, the link goes to Q4.com!
Cuil Search Results
Capital One
Credit Made Clearer
lovemoney
Relationship with Your Money
CashQuestions
Personal Finance Problem Solver
Life Cover
Insurance Made Easy
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They weren’t even ranking themselves for the search term ‘cuil’ until this morning (was this a manual edit? I’m a bit suspicious).
If you take a look at what elsse ranks for the term ‘cuil’ you’ll find properazzi.com (a property finder site) which was ranked 1st yesterday but now in…2nd? 5th? I guess it depends on how you look at it!
The ranking page on properazzi.com does not contain the word ‘cuil’ anywhere, but, if you look at the ranking URL, it’s;
http://www.properazzi.com/Cuil-Mhuine+Ireland/sale/
Which 301 re-directs to
http://www.properazzi.com/Ireland/County-Sligo/Collooney/property/sale
So the “World’s Biggest Search Engine” takes a keyword from a URL that is a 301 re-direct as one of its most relevant sites??
Google must be running scared right now!
lol! Bullhorn is there! And it’s very confusing that the “Mini” graphic for our site shows up for QuoteZone… and I thought they were supposed to be a competitor of ours.
Cuil, definately needs a lot more work…
I think they’ve got some major usability issues going on with the formatting. And the results are crap, don’t care how big your index is.
On a separate note anyone notice that direct lines motor page has been pushed back to page 5, the very same page that was #4 spot 4 weeks ago for the term car insurance.
Methinks a link buying penalty has been applied.
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