But is it cool?
So the “new” way to search is with Cuil. It seems fast, but it’s strange. I tried it first thing today, and the “about” page didn’t work. In addition, I did one search that returned zero results, claiming my terms were “too rare.” The same search on Yahoo gave me 23.5 million hits. I modified the search and Cuil returned exactly one match — but at the top right it said “368,400 results.” I don’t know where those results were, but they weren’t available to me… strange.
I really like the category search thingy. It looks like it gets the search results, then gives you the option of reducing the search results by the category you’re looking for — but when I chose some categories, it said there were no results! Why in the world would the category even show up if there’s no results? Also, a couple times this morning I got the message that the site wasn’t available because of too much traffic. Not a great start for someone who wants to challenge Google…
It seems nice, but it doesn’t seem to be good at returning results just yet.
Popularity: 20% [?]
