My Personal Cuil Review

A close friend of mine was really excited about the Cuil.com launch. Honestly I don’t remember reading about Cuil, so the launch came as a surpise to me. Awesome, if he’s excited, this must be something really cool, lets go and check it out.

So, it works — hey, it searches =P. But mhhh whats so special here? I don’t get it… apart from the index falling short… I must say (and I know I’m not only talking about myself) we are used to google. We know how google works and highlights the stuff you want. It’s not magic, but it works.

Today I go back to Cuil.com after reading a CNet article linked on Techmeme curiously named “Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine”. So I decided to go back and to my surprise I did find something cool in Cuil when I went back:

… and those tabs are cool. Search results by category FTW. Maybe Cuil has a long way to go on indexing the web, but if they pull it off categorizing your results that way, I think the’re on to something.