The privacy policy is excellent and will or would gain them a great deal of goodwill. But I just can’t find anything using the site. There is also no FAQ with their search syntax. Common + – quotes etc lead to zero results.

Education
Entertainment
Environment
EGovernment
ECommerce

Or a similar scheme. This is just a trivial e.g.

They REALLY need to suss out the INTENT of the search without being too complicated or too prying. Then they can ask for top dollar for targeted advertising without collecting information about the searcher and archiving that data the way Google does. Google, clearly violating the constitution and you…

It is blunt to ask that kind of information but asking that information avoids the bald-faced lie that is Google.

Cuil should listen to what we customers say.

We customers say:

1) build us a search engine in which we state the intent of the search.

2) Customers 1st. Then customers stay so advertisers stay. Simple formula most businesses know nothing about. You can charge a much higher rate then google because with intent keywords, e.g. intent::buy, all your advertisers will know that the customer is looking for a deal, to learn, to be entertained, to socialize,…

3) Have you ever heard of a search that resulted in an ad being placed? That is very easily done with a keyword intent::sell. An advertisement is then created and placed on a network of open ad slots on sites saying they’ll accept ads of type sell::furniture::couch::USA::Illinios::Chicago::60609 for example. Or greenly speaking, donate::furniture::couch:Chicago::LI::60609. After an initial seller’s registration, everytime the customer/searcher wanted to put something up for sale it’s a matter of performing a search on a search engine. Much more tightly targeted advertising. Who ever heard of the users of a search engine using the search engine to place ads?! Talk about directed advertising. Key point though is Cuil should require ads of this type be local in nature to avoid the stupid kind of ‘get rich quick ads’ that permeate Google’s ad space and repulse Google search users such as those yellow teeth ads, political ads, theological ads, obesity and drug ads…google greed grosses out.

Google will be eaten alive. There is alot of rumbling against Google and their two-faced betrayal.

Google tries to be cute and read our minds by collecting everthing it can about us and search this supposed ‘inside’ view to advertisers.

We say, be blunt, we’ll tell you our intent if you promise not to keep that information past this one search. Because, truthfully, the next time my intent could be something entirely different. Or Google ‘mid reading’ could be as inept as the FBI & CIA (e.g. Rich Jewell, Waco, TX, Osama bin Laden)

Who will advertisers believe? Searcher’s/Customer’s own words or Google privacy invading ‘mind reading’?

SIMPLE and MATURE way to treat customer and advertiser with respect. Google you loose.

Listen.

Google & other businesses that listened to me nearly 2 years ago when I told them they should use electronic copies of screenplays combined with text/speech recognition to screen out pirated video clips and other content are now bringing my ideal into use in public. Listening to customers such as myself brings great rewards.

Yes, Google, you’re welcome.

any way all the best for the new search engine.

Google
Results 1 – 10 of about 103,000 for Yashica Electro 35

(an old camera I was researching)

enough said… it’s not ready

All that indexing, they must have forgotten their own site and media coverage. A search on Cuil for “cuil” returns zero hits for their own website. More interestingly, it fails to return a single hit on any of the media coverage extolling Cuil. Doing a similar search for “cuil” on Google yields as its first result: News results for Cuil, followed by Cuil’s homepage. I learned a lot about Cuil and their lofty ambitions thanks, in large part, to Google’s excellent search results.

I think it was having usual starting troubles. I also agree with author that its very premature to compare it with google. (I am google fan) I was surprised by the press coverage it got.

I think another opportunity for MS to spend money and try to catch up with Google. Not gonna happen

By the way, there is a good book on Search by John Battelle. It is actually called “Search”.

Check out the research paper we wrote on Google recently here:
http://sites.google.com/site/suffolkexecmba/Home/blog/Google-Financial-Analysis-and-Forecasting-Paper/Google_Final_Draft.pdf