Cuil apparently no threat to Google July 29, 2008
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in Tools.trackback
Well, the initial verdicts are in and they are tepid at best. As Time Magazine reports in Why Cuil is No Threat to Google, “the new site poses little immediate threat to industry leader Google, or even its nearest competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, in either relevance or breadth of results it delivers.” Interest in the new search engine crashed the server on Monday, but “even when it was working, the results were fair, at best.” Hopefully Cuil will survive because I really like the idea of a search engine not storing data on its users and the queries they make, but they will definitely have to do a better job at providing relevant search results. I use Google because it delivers accurate search results and saves me a lot of time. It looks like I will be continuing to do so.
Musings from an overworked translator 
There’s always ixquick.com if you’re a bit on the tin foil hat side. It’s a meta search engine, so it works pretty well.
/Johan