Cuil search engine has a low self esteem
Author: jamaapoa
•Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Some former Google engineers have teamed up and launched a new search engine www.cuil.com (pronounced "cool"). They are working hard to beat Google at its own game: googling claiming they have a better search algorithm that ranks pages based on content rather than popularity.

Search engines rank their pages based more on popularity than content relevance. The more links that link to your site, the better it is placed by Google (oops...search engines) on their search results. As long as the links to your site are not from crazy or bogus websites.

Interestingly for www.cuil.com, a 'cuil' search yields no results for its own page or the hullabaloo on the Internet about Cuil's David stance against Goliath Google. Google does Cuil justice and ranks www.cuil.com top on a "cuil" search. Cuil instead gives results about properties in Ireland, restaurants and tourist attraction sites on the first search results page of a "cuil" search on www.cuil.com.

While at it, here is a collection of search engines out there:
  1. www.google.com
  2. www.yahoo.com
  3. www.live.com
  4. www.ask.com
  5. www.mahalo.com
  6. www.hakia.com
  7. www.wikia.com
  8. www.wikipedia.com
  9. www.powerset.com
  10. www.cuil.com
  11. www.del.icio.us
  12. www.earthfrisk.com
  13. www.youtube.com
  14. www.flickr.com
  15. www.lycos.com
  16. www.altavista.com
  17. www.dmoz.org
  18. www.about.com
  19. www.blekko.com
  20. www.ixquick.com
  21. www.archive.org
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