Phillyist: All the Cuil Kids Are Doing It

Stephanie Mannis

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:51:41 -0500

Eh. Google is a verb now. That to me cements its place as the permanent default search engine. I can't say "oh, let me cuil that." Also, I am a creature of habit, so I doubt I'll switch.

Lene

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:48:12 -0500

Thanks for blogging this, I didn't know there was another worthy competitor out there. I'll be checking this out!

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:55:25 -0500

Wow. I have been needing a new photo for a while... Definitely something to think about!

Ross Currie

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:18:13 -0500

Hmmm, let's see, a Cuil search for "Jillian Ivey" gets me an incomprehensible mess, whereas a Google search gets me very easily decipherable results. And as for the "other" Jillian Ivey, her website reminds me: Editor Jill, I think you should get a Glamour Shots-rrific photo for your staff bio.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:45:39 -0500

Maybe I'm getting old, but I just really prefer the all-text search you get on Google. Info in columns with pictures is, I think, a lot less user-friendly. Plus, it makes your brain play the "do I read this left to right, or up, then down, then over?" game. Meanwhile, Cuil taught me that there's a Jillian Ivey Sidoti practicing law in California. Or perhaps I'm just leading a bicoastal double life. Nobody's ever seen us in the same room, after all.

Ross Currie

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:21:55 -0500

I largely agree with you, Ang. But then, Yahoo was once at the top of the search engine game. And I guess Internet Explorer still is at the top of the web browser game, and I'm an avid Firefox user, so I'm not resisting Cuil on that basis. It's obviously got some things to work out, but if it can eventually provide better functionality than Google, or challenge Google to do more with its own product, than I'm certainly not going to say Cuil is a bad thing.

Angela DiOrio

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:18:32 -0500

That new site violates my "no stupid names" code. Plus, Google is at the top of the search engine game so I would see no reason to switch.

phillybits

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:05:30 -0500

I checked it a littler earlier, searched my blog 'Phillybits', and out of the 10 initial results, only one of them linked back directly to my site. Most everything else was a link to ticketslook.org/xx/xxxx/ (6 instances) and a handfull of other .biz sites.