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However, this: "Many searches on Google which would return hundreds of thousands or millions of links (like say "Saten Island" for example), turn up less than half as many on Cuil," may not be correct.

Google returns an ESTIMATE, not an exact count. Typically, most large result sets give out far short of the max.]]>Aug 1st 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/Aug 1st 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/Aug 1st 2008 2:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/
Cuil is dead already. It's too bad, because when I heard that its chief architect was an ex-Google engineer, I assumed it would be simply awesome. ]]>Aug 1st 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/Aug 1st 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/http://www.switched.com/2008/07/31/is-cuil-a-google-killer/
Not only did Cuil fail miserably at retrieving the desired information and pictures, the links and associated thumbnail photos usually had nothing to do with one another. In one instance, clicking on a photo taken at a lake near Yosemite took me to a website located in Florida! Using Google's sophisticated search syntax, however, yielded up dozens of *relevant* results within seconds. "Cuil" may indeed rhyme with "cool", but it also rhymes with "fool", which is what a person would have to be to rely on the Cuil engine for serious searching.

There is a reason for Google's search hegemony: it works. Cuil doesn't and it is just that simple.]]>Aug 2nd 2008 12:04PM