Goliath
"G" stands for Goliath, and it also stands for Google.
The latest David to go against Goliath is CUIL. CUIL is the newest search engine that was founded by two former Google employees and two others.
CUIL was supposed to supplant Google as the search engine. Supposedly, CUIL was to have better ranking algorithms than Google. Unfortunately, CUIL has not gotten off to a good start.
The general consensus among users is that CUIL is not as impressive as Google when it comes to finding a particular site or to finding answers.
"For a new search engine to succeed," state the CUIL detractors, "it must be considerably better than Google. It can't be just as good or a little better."
Maybe the CUIL engine will become better and more popular with time. Let's hope so.
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Yes. It came and it went unfortunately. I thought the engine was still around but it's not.
Had enough with google they do things to your web sites and do not explain in plain text they send to read and figure out your problem wasting a long time until you figure it out
I agree, but as being new to online biz, I have so much other to learn that I would just stick with google for now and learn the other website stuff first.
You are welcome Eric. CUIL (pronounced cool) has already shut down unfortunately. I thought it was still ongoing, but it couldn't compete with Google. Thank you for your question and comment.
The people all belong to Google, they have the same experiences, they have one master. If something better comes up, a new master is born to his own era. We love advancement of changes and may it be always for the better.
The trouble with Google is that it's generally slightly biased toward the highest bidders and even censors the results on occasion out of political bias, as we found out in this past election. So naturally, any new search engine that "plays fair" may end up looking inferior which kinda sucks, since the results are more likely to be more accurate than Google's. I've seen others pop up over the years, http://www.goodgopher.com/ for example. In the end, what Google also offers is a whole suite of tools, a browser, chromebooks etc. that make people more likely to use Google's search in general. CUIL will have to compete with those tools as well if they want to gain more traction. Just my humble opinion.
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sometinlmes too big to fail is a very bad thing
I agree my friend