Why Cuil Sucks - It can't even find itself

[geuis]

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

[compay]

Maybe that's because it's only supposed to return relevant results. Seems to be working well here.

[icey]

Does someone have a greasemonkey script to filter out all these stupid Cuil posts yet?

We get it, Cuil sucks.

[byrneseyeview]

My #1 result was http://whois.ws/whois-com/ip-address/cuil.com/ . They had some other whois results, too.

I wonder if they realized how many people would read about it on Techcrunch, then search for Techcrunch on it to take it for a spin -- and quickly reworked the algorithm to give a higher weight to URLs.

[oxtopus]

Doesn't that make sense?

Before the launch, weren't they in stealth? Shouldn't it take time for the index to catch up?

[_tggb]

That search worked for me..

[kajecounterhack]

no, notice that cuil.com isn't a result.

[tx]

How pathetic. (you, not cuil). Go and make fun of Facebook instead. It's a fucking MESSAGE BOARD WRITTEN IN PHP. At least Cuil is trying to build something not trivial and useless, facing real competition and going after real money.

[compay → tx]

As soon as their search results aren't terrible, I'll be rooting for them. But right now it's all sizzle and no beef.