Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Cuil not impressive, ZOOperstars amazing

With the recent unleashing of the self proclaimed "google stopper" cuil, many people were left extremely underwhelmed, myself included. I was wondering how much better this could be. How close could cuil come to reading my mind?!?! While the results wasn't what I expected, the interface was beautiful.

Google filed a patent for its search result interface [citation needed], everybody has been producing similar search result pages. IMHO Cuil steps out of the box a little more than I have seen giving more information without having to move my ornery touchpad. They display information on either two or three column including pictures. So now instead of looking at words I will be scanning the pictures associated with each page to find what I am looking for. They also keep an index of page results on the bottom of the page (which is probably needed). They also cluster (categorize) the results and let you search with in this clusters.

My suggestion to Cuil is to keep the interface but trash the search engine and leverage googles'. That would make life perfect for me.

For everybody who wasn't impressed with Cuil's debut, here are two youtube videos which are definitely more entertaining that you think. Introducing the ZOOperstars:




Roger Clamens eats the bat boy!





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