Comments on: Cuil Search – what am I missing about all that they are missing?

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:59:21 +0000

Glenn you were exactly right – Cuil was swamped, taking some of their servers offline. Their architecture is not parallel so if the servers that are “expert” in “computers” go down you get no results.

By: glenn

glenn — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:18:15 +0000

You may very well be getting no results as a result of the client web interface being overwhelmed. Give the product a couple of weeks to settle out their usability issues.

Remember a search engine is never really seen by the end-users and their client based results may not accurately represent what they really can do. (you know the old – pay no attention to the man behind the curtain – good dog toto, good dog!)

I am sure they are getting completely swamped today with activity. I am not here trying to promote what they are doing either I just know how large scale software works.

It is going to be an interesting 2nd half of the year though.

I wonder if they will announce a Cuil phone as well…lol

By: JoeDuck

JoeDuck — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:16:05 +0000

Metroknow I’m getting a lot of empty searches and wondering what’s up with this. Clearly queries like that should list a lot of things (like your blog!), and queries like “computers” should have millions of good results.

By: Metroknow

Metroknow — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:16:49 +0000

Ha – I just did a search for “Health and fitness blog” (no quotes) which is my niche – and got no results.

Um…Guys?