Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search... - Simon

neat search results page design. how do they get distribution? - peter

Yah, this is the first new UI I have liked from a search competitor. I like the photos more than the columns. It is easier to browse for me, but harder to scan. The photos are useful for a lot of searches, though. - Bret Taylor

Agreed. It has a pretty nice UI, and speed is pretty good. The AI bit could do better, but it has promise. Will keep an eye on this. My guess. Google buys it, cause there is value there - Deepak Singh

The results seem pretty bad and the pictures are random. Maybe it's just buggy right now though. Also, I continue to dislike multi-column layouts. - Paul Buchheit

I searched for [cuil] and couldn't find it :) http://www.cuil.com/search... - Michael

Some queries it does very well on (e.g. protein folding). Others, it's pretty bad. - Deepak Singh

I hope they grow into a true google rival. The big G needs competition - Mo Kargas

The first piece of advice, it's apparently case sensitive "openwetware" and "OpenWetWare" are completely different - Deepak Singh

If it's supposed to be pronounced "cool," the squatters over here are in for a treat: http://www.cool.com - Richard Chen

You'd think with 33 million in funding they'd have bought the cool.com domain? - Mo Kargas

I agree ... why call the company a hard-to-spell word that sounds like "cool.com" when you could have just called it "cool.com"? - Alex Power

I've always disliked search engines ignoring case, punctuation, and spacing. If I search for SAT or LED or RAID, it's more likely that I'm not looking for the noun than the verb. And how about being able to search for C#, $1, A*, <, Folding @Home, <div>? - Amit Patel

"Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity." - Mitchell Tsai

It is not massive by any stretch of imagination. Google is "ATLEAST" 10 times bigger. Search for common terms on both and find out - Sidharth Dassani

how do they dare to compare themself to google if the page doesnt even load for me. is that a joke? availability and performance is a major feature of a search engine - Chris Hofmann

We didn’t find any results for “krz9000” -> fail - Chris Hofmann

i like the non scrolling search results pages. - peter

I noticed last night, that typing in a search resulted in a properly formatted result page with zero results. Yet pressing refresh gave me a full page of results, using the same query. I speculate that they are still working out service problems. - Scott Ludwig

No results because of high load... Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again. So much for the stealth mode - Mihai Tarmure

love the homepage design though. when google first launched everyone thought its madness to feature an empty page with a searchfield. well that proved to be the start of the internet search. and now these guys go... black. extreme - Mihai Tarmure