CUIL is now open.

[DSL Guy]

pronounced like Cool .com | CUIL .com claims to be the world's largest search engine. Got big PR from CNN today.

Funny you have to email them to be considered for inclusion if you have not yet been crawled by their Twiceler robot.

They say there are masqueraders crawling sites as Twiceler but to watch for these ip addresses:

38.99.13.121 38.99.44.101 64.1.215.166 208.36.144.6 38.99.13.122 38.99.44.102 64.1.215.162 208.36.144.7 38.99.13.123 38.99.44.103 64.1.215.163 208.36.144.8 38.99.13.124 38.99.44.104 64.1.215.164 208.36.144.9 38.99.13.125 38.99.44.105 64.1.215.165 208.36.144.10 38.99.13.126 38.99.44.106
If you find a robot named Twiceler coming from anywhere else it is a fraud robot. Read more here at the webmaster info page > http://www.cuil.com/info/webmaster_info/

[DSL Guy]

emailed them for inclusion some hours earlier.

I just checked and they have 3 of my html sitemaps included. These sitemaps are an obamanation, opps! should use spell checker but thats ok. There are over 50 site maps and each one has tens of hundreds of links on the page.

[Sharron]

I just searched using it, search cartoongraphics, two words.

First one on left, second row. that is a screenshot of a blog that I designed. Which said blog and it's parent site has nothing to do with the site, they have indexed in connection to the screenshot.

[Sharron]

Whoops, just got this :

No results because of high load...

Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again.

[DSL Guy]

the CNN exposure they got today is causing a huge drive of traffic to the site.

they had a notice up earlier needing to increase ability to handle larger loads.

The screen shots they had for my pages were odd and in no way connected with my site. They were images linked to the root url which is good. One was like a newspaper unfolded. Go figure.

[DSL Guy]

So much for loyalty. These are ex-employees competing directly with their past employer. Seems some case-sensitive Google search technologies these ex-employees are privy to may cause some legal problems in the future... that is if Google perceives Cuil as a dangerous competitor.

[DSL Guy]

Is this a kind of "Corporate Blackmail"?

I look at it like this: a bunch of disgruntled ex-Google employees get together and create a competitor for their ex-boss.

Now all they do is wait for the ex-boss to offer them money to buy them out. The ex-boss then squashes the competitor.

But the disgruntled ex-employees walk away with millions.

Just one scenario and maybe not a good one at that.

[FrankV]

I would imagine that "IF" Google felt threatened and could prove that the ex-employees had in fact used technology illegally, Google would sue to the ends of the Earth and back. Even if there was no real proof, Google might sue anyway just to drive the competition into bankruptcy and get rid of them. Sadly, that is not supposed to be allowed, but happens just the same. Laws are made for lawyers and politics, not to help the public. Just my humble opinion, of course.

[StatCounterJen]

News Release

Statcounter Research Shows New Search Engine Cuil is One to Watch

Thursday, 31st July, 2008: Research by Irish company Statcounter, which provides free web site traffic statistics, shows that Cuil, the new search engine launched on Monday could be a significant rival to Google. After just one day, Cuil accounted for 1 in every 1000 searches done.

Aodhan Cullen, CEO and founder of StatCounter said, “This is phenomenal when you consider that Altavista, a search engine founded in 1995, accounted for just 6 in 10,000 searches.”

Cullen continued, “ There are over 100 search engines we monitor and Cuil was in the top ten in US, UK and Ireland. When you consider that over 90 other search engines (e.g. go, excite, alltheweb.com, lycos) combined accounted for just 1.54% of searches on Tuesday - Cuil with its 0.1% share on the market inside 24 hours is doing extremely well.”

On Tuesday Cuil accounted for 1 in 1,000 searches globally and in the US. 1 in 500 searches in the UK and 1 in every 400 searches in Ireland.*

*Note: This information is based on a sample of over 25 million page views globally.

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[StevenofNine]

Yeah, well, we'll see where they are with that damned clunky results page.

We're already in the index, so no worries, there.

Just waiting for the advertising to show up...