Cuil Search - www.Cuil.com

The latest and greatest search engine to come along hit the street today. Cuil.com (pronounced cool.com) claims to have the largest index on the internet. WWW.CUIL.com claims to have three time the number of indexed pages as google and nearly ten times more than MSN.com. Only time will tell if www.Cuil.com has what it takes to take on google.

Although it has a great start with the press it has gotten. Cuil.com has been started by three ex-google senior engineers. They got together 33 million dollars in venture capital and before you know it www.cuil.com was born.

The reception has been luke warm for www.cuil.com, the NY TIMES says

Cuil (Cool) Online Home Business

"If your mission is to beat Google in the search market, it's probably wise to give your upstart search engine a name that people know how to pronounce. It's also wise to make sure that it appears in the first page of search results for its own name. Cuil, the upstart search engine that debuted today with aspirations of unseating Google, has apparently done neither," he wrote.

and PC World "Without the ability to collate general search results with photos, news articles, the increasingly popular video files and mapping information, a search engine is effectively unable to provide the type of "universal" search results that have become de riguer and that Google now consistently does.

In short, what looked like a successfully architected public-relations launch is backfiring because the product has failed to meet the lofty expectations that were created.

Backed by reputable investors that have reportedly invested $33 million in it, Cuil will now have to go into damage control instead of riding the early momentum, and hope that end-users and industry observers will give it another chance once it works out its kinks.

"First impressions count a lot," said industry analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence, who on Monday morning was unable to give Cuil a thorough test because of the site's performance problems."

But only time will tell if www.CUIL.com will survive and flurish in the world of search. A world currently dominated by google.