If you truly are hip — or at the very least, a respectable geek — then you’ve been eagerly awaiting the news on the new search engine thingee “Cuil”.
That’s www.cuil.com for those of you not in the know. It was unveiled on the 28th and the reviews are rolling in.
The first thing you’re going to ask is, how the h*ll do you say that word?
Coil?…..Quill?…..Que-ill? And what exactly is a que-ill, anyway?!
Let us que-ill your curiosity: It’s pronounced “cool.”
And it’s a soap opera in the making: ex-Googlers (Googli?) created it. Claims are swirling about a Googlopoly overthrow. And there are rumors that Cuil and the gang will be offering more services for their employees than are offered at the Googleplex.
For instance, there’s no on-site psychic advisor at the Googleplex. But I bet there will be at Cuiliwood!
From the Cuil website:
The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.
Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private.
Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.
Except, er, maybe you SHOULDN’T ask Cuil. According to PC World, “cuil” is NOT an old Irish word for knowledge. Apparently it means “corner” or “hazelnut” or “flies.”
I think it also said that in some regions cuil translates into “Robert Downey Jr.’s in the House.” (But I might be misremembering that part).
Now, this whole getting their own name wrong thing is downright embarrassing. But, you ask (rightly so, I might add): What’s any of this have to do with ParentZing! and urban. style. parenting. ?
If you type the words “parentzing urban style parenting” in the Google search box, well… there we ARE.
If you type the words into Cuil, well… there we *AREN’T*.
And THAT, my friend, is not cuil at all.
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Join the club, missy. My website doesn’t show up either on cuil and i’m actually in the industry.
I did enjoy “Cuiliwood”. Perhaps they’ll adopt that name. If they make it past this week, that is.
um, so, uhh … I had been searching for “parentzing” in google and yahoo for the past few days because I had heard about this schnazzy site and had lost the email with the link, and well, nothing showed up in those search engines either! (or maybe it was there but nowhere near the top of the list of 3 bazillion hits). It doesn’t even show up if you search on the wordpress website!!! adding tags? or is the site being referenced by more sites that it’s now starting to show up in searches?
And before you go trashin on the name, oh ye who claims membership in red sox nation (!), I’d a thunk you’d at least appreciate that it’s from a dropkick murphys song!!!! (the legend of finn mccuill or however the heck the variation on the name gets spelled!) … you know, the group that inspired the little jig by one red sox pitcher in his boxer briefs??? how possibly could you be so cruil! a little cognitive flexibility is needed for good parenting, no???
I tend to think of new websites (search engines or other) like new restaurants … don’t bother trying until they have a chance to work all of the kinks out … the main benefit of cuil, it seems, is for people who want to search privately (i.e., don’t want deal with every single click in the search engine recorded by google and reported to marketers … and the justice department. doh) … but …. as a wise old (kind of creepy) professor once said “you’re never really safe …”.
You got me with the “how could you be so cruil”… pretty funny!
Maybe you ain’t check’d yer google lately – it does show up there… or, maybe my medication isn’t working and I am hallucinating?!
And I agree with your professor: Trust No One.
PS Speaking of the Red Sox… It’ll be strange w/o Manny there….
right, site now shows up in google, but the other day when i searched it didn’t. probably because site just started and it’s generating more hits! and of COURSE anything that bashes google competition will be moved to top of search results! keep on zing-ing!
Armchair critics unfairly compare Cuil with Google, Yahoo and MSN, etc. Cuil is a new startup, launched with $33m in August 2008. Google was the fifth biggest US outfit, and global brand #20 in 2007 when its stock market capitalization was $230 billion with annual revenue of $16 billion, $4 billion profits and 20,000 employees. Cuil is not in the same league as Google (startup January 1998) and Yahoo (startup 1993). Google still has less linked web pages compared with Yahoo. Both have W3C errors, but MSN has none! MSN is the only bug-less Microsoft product that does not need service packs! Moreover, both Google and Yahoo suffer from Internet click fraud… read links here http://tyneham.wordpress.com, and here http://tyneham.blogspot.com. I don’t work for Cuil, Google, Yahoo or MSN. Any offers?!