Remember Cuil? The search startup that boast how it could beat Google in its game? Well many of us would have counted it out, maybe not because it’s not worth it, but primarily we have enough search engines already and Google is almost always up with what we want. However Cuil isn’t over yet and it’s planning a comeback and it will integrate in it the social aspect. How? Well it plans to search queries across social networks of users and provide better results. This means if someone searches for lets say Transformers and a user who has given Cuil the access to their social network, they will see the result in a special box on the results page along with similar items and others who like the movie. Talk about leveraging the social networks to do the business, that’s not bad and I am glad that they are more humble with this new initiative. The idea to see search engines trying to get into the social networks, which will give rise to a new battle, some will make great progress, others might just skid off. Lets see where Cuil stands a year from here on and how many users actually let it use their social networking profile to do the same. Why can’t Cuil just roll out a Facebook, MySpace application to begin with?
It was disappointing to see Cuil not grow at all even after such a long time. I did a few searches on it and found it way behind any other average search engine.
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That is correct but i guess the reason why it failed to launch off is that it set high expectations with all the hype of being a Google Killer, etc.
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