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Cuil that had started off with a roar last month has been dwindling and coughing into oblivion as days pass by. The current stats reported by Hitwise reveal that Cuil is dying a slowing death with time.
Cuil at present ranks at 1034 amongst the most visited websites of all the web-pages and at 34 amongst the search engines. This is quite surprising; the entire analytics falling drastically, one is forced to think that Cuil isn’t cool enough after all.
Further more the site attracts visitors in the 55+ age bracket the reason highlighted being that majority of the traffic is generated from the news sites that have provided the coverage for the service. All in all it appears that Cuil couldn’t really grab onto the target it had planned to attain and that too in the worst manner; Cuil burst its own bubble by making a lot more noise than what it really was worth.
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This graph illustrates what many of us suspected — Cuil would be a flash in the pan. I doubt it can recover.
Cuil was total failure since when it was launch and it was able to grab attention just b’coz of so much hype. After launch when it was available people were getting the feeling that CUIL will fail and it seems it is drowning.
Between just after launch there was discussion over SAMPAD SWAIN blog (http://managementchords.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-marketing-cuil-as-google-killer-bad.html)
And here is my feedback comment about CUIL:-
Why Marketing “Cuil” as “Google Killer” a bad idea? - It will be very BAD idea, I had also checked for few resuls at CUIL comparing the results what they dispalyed with Google (No Doubt), Yahoo & MSN. To me CUIL seems zero to none.
I was not satisfied with the results they display and most of them were irrevelant with the kind of Query I searched for.
I agree they indexed more url’s than Google but still in algorithm & serving accurate listings they can never beat Google.
CUIL looks attractive to eye but won’t be able to solve the purpose of search.
Regards
Afzee
It’s hard to imagine Cuil doing anything but incremental changes to what Google’s done. And even that would take years of effort. Now, as an added obstacle, they have to deal with the backlash of making such gigantic claims about their search results.
Me.dium.com has taken a different tack. We have a full web index, but we change the results based on the surfing activity of our user base (now over 2,000,000). It’s in alpha, but I’d be curious to hear your thoughts. http://me.dium.com/search
Thanks for telling us about this, Jennifer. We’ll check Me.dium out asap.
And for Cuil, I don’t think Google would be worried of losing the search market to anyone in the near future. They probably are THE website which might around a billion or more loyal followers, plus the time, skill and research they’ve done on search is far greater than their competitors, and they wouldn’t be sitting idle watching the competition struggle to beat them at their own game. I think if someone will better Google’s search, it’ll be Google itself.
at first glance i thought cuil wil become google killer but whe my search on cuil was unexpected i got reply from my mind Cuil is self killer
Thanks for the comments. There is not much we can say as to how Cuil actually plans to BEAT Google, ‘bluff’ that’s all Cuil is about. I still recall they were all over Techmeme and it had a crashdown immediately. I guess they focused more at creating a hype over beating Google rather than going after improving the very basis of a search engine.
And as Imran has said, there is nothing coming close to beating Google than Google itself.
Regards,