What is the Deal with cuil.com

[Micheal Pannell Realtor]

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dallas%20county

Where do they get these pictures for our sites. It has a image for my Dallas County site that say Anderson, Anderson & Anderson

Same thing here

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=dallas+real+estate

It has a live music logo or something

Where do they get these images for our sites

[mikey]

I don't know about the pictures and they don't seem to be a competitive search engine.

I just tried a few more searches including my own name "mike bates hawaii realtor" - take a look at the result: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=mike+bates+hawaii+realtor

The picture of the guy with white hair and a beard is NOT me! HA!

[Adier]

So they're not images from your site eh because it should be.

Cuil presents search results across three columns, most with small images drawn from the sites.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/cuils-new-search-engine-cheaper-than-google-but-not-better/

[mikey]

Nope, I've never seen the guy before.

[Micheal Pannell Realtor]

lol white hair, i guess it is better then another blue hair Realtor huh

[realspace]

I pretty much ruled out Cuil from day one. It was never build on anything other than the idea that it's "bigger" but who cares? When have you been to google and not had enough results? That's really not what the search game is about, it's about relevancy and as you showed, it's doesn't quite have that down...

[Jaysonnhs]

Yeah it looks like their results are pretty bad. It has some pages from our site indexed that haven't been around for about 6 months. Maybe it's too big for it's own good?

[Jaysonnhs]

Looks like they got an image of a "Ron Paul for President" banner associated with google.co.uk some how...

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=google

[mikey]

I first read about Cuil in the newspaper, one of those articles talking about hot new trends. This time they were wrong.

[svrpaul]

Can't say there is anything too cool about it myself.