Cuil is the newest giant on the web search block. Well it has been around for a little over three months now. With 120 billion pages indexed, which is three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft (as claimed by them on their site), Cuil pronounced as COOL, at the first glance seems to be making good inroads. However, I personally feel that Cuil (www.cuil.com) has to make some quick proliferation among the internet users before anything else, as I have hardly come across people who do even know anything about this so called cool search engine, though I wonder how much of the new traffic would get hooked on to it for a sustained period of time.

Contrary to what Cuil has been claiming, it may have indexed tons of pages, but what is the use if a visitor’s objective is not met. A word of caution, even if you are inclined to use the search engine, do so only if you have good amount of patience and time on your hand. Do not rely on Cuil if you are hard pressed for time and in a kind of rush to get the desired search results, as while you are searching through the maze of irrelevant results, there could be a high probability that you may miss your flight, may even get delayed for that all important business meeting or falter on any other job that you need to accomplish. You would do pretty well by sticking to the good old Google.

I find Cuil to be pretty dumb in its analytics, unlike Google it cannot process queries the way you want it to be queried. You may key in your search query, any which way you want and there is a very high probability that Google serves you with the desired result, but certainly not the case with Cuil.

Going forward with their features, they undoubtedly have got quite a few innovative ones. But, I would not even like to delve into those, because, as a user my first need is to get the basics right, jazzed up things can come later. What they claim to be relevant search results, may not be relevant for some other person. I have a feeling that they probably rushed to the market with an untested product. There could have been pressures from their funding partners to increase the speed to market, but how does it help? The product needs some immediate attention from their creators, as the users are a ruthless community, they would dump it without giving an iota of chance to recoup. It is high time that they improvise and moreover the luck is on their side, as not too many of the net users are really aware of them. So better luck with the next version.