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How Cuil Is The SEO Industry?

Went Hot: July 30, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: tamar 340 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing

Barry writes: "Philipp Lenssen's The World According to Cuil blog post inspired me to take snapshots of how Cuil, the new search engine, matches up the names of our industry, to pictures." This is actually VERY funny! :)

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from DavidWallace 340 days ago #

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Very nice, Barry. Maybe Cuil is trying get a laugh out of all of us. While their search sucks, they do provide a chuckle when you see stuff like you highlighted in your post.

from rhcerff 340 days ago #

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Very amusing! Got to love Dave N!

from ankitrawat 340 days ago #

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Lol funny !!! I noticed this with my name lol ..
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ankit+rawat
they are showing a cricketer pic with mah seomoz profile =]

from MattCutts 340 days ago #

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DaveN's is my favorite. :)

from rishilakhani 340 days ago #

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This is one of the funniest Cuil posts I have seen... a close second is a comment left by the infamous Sean Maguire...

from torka 340 days ago #

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I LOL'd at DaveN's "picture."

This Cuil thing has to be a joke, right? I mean, like Spinal Tap, the results go up to 11 (one better than Google). The only way they're going to kill Google is if the folks in the 'plex die laughing...

from Winooski 340 days ago #

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That Andrew Goodman picture is of the three voting rights / "Freedom Summer" workers who were slain by KKK members in Mississippi in the summer of '64 (the basis for the movie "Mississippi Burning"). The man on the right of that picture would be Andrew Goodman, the civil rights activist.

Importance? High. Relevancy to "our" Andrew Goodman? Low.

from Inferno 340 days ago #

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It's a bit ironic that Cuil can't even find itself... :-)

http://www.cuil.com/search?q=cuil&sl=long

from hannescarlmeyer 340 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Its also funny when punching in bush, check the 2nd result in first column ;-)

http://hannescarlmeyer.de/blog/2008/07/29/cuil-launched-fast-test/

from traffick 340 days ago #

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Ha ha, I didn't escape from prison - yes, that other Andrew Goodman was murdered/lynched in 1964, in attempting to campaign for black voter registration.

I was going to post something like this in a couple of days :)

Boy, Cuill is taking it on the chin for this stuff. I figured the Danny Sullivan entry would be messed up but it's an across-the-board mess, eh?

from SpeedyPin 340 days ago #

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OK, so it's confirmed that what I was seeing the other day was actually a global happening. When I did a couple of searches related to the phone card industry, Cuil displayed the incorrect thumbnails for us an other competitors.

- Eric Itzkowitz

from SpeedyPin 340 days ago #

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LOL, sorry I had to post once more. I queried "danny sullivan" (no quotes) and the listing for his wikipedia page, Danny Sullivan (technologist), displays a thumb nail of the Dalai Lama. CLASSIC!

- Eric Itzkowitz

from rustybrick 340 days ago #

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Andrew, I should have researched the image. Looks bad in context...

from lornali 339 days ago #

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Ahahahaha! A can of Spam! ROFL... I don't know which is funnier, their search results or the notion that Cuil can take on Google.

from Jill 339 days ago #

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The funniest one for my name points to my wikipedia page, but has an image that says "She is Not Fair to Outward View"

Umm...ok!

from VinceSollitto 339 days ago #

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Are you *sure* that's not our Danny Sullivan in the race car? I've heard he can spot a well-SEO'd site faster than, um -- Speed Racer! :)

We have some things to improve, no doubt. But just think how boring the search blog space could get again once we nail our image and content matching!

Onward....

Vince from Cuil

from sherwood 339 days ago #

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I think Cuil's image match has a ghost in the machine. Carlin's:
http://sherwoodseo.blogspot.com/2008/07/cuils-10-goofiest-image-matches.html

from yojpotter2 339 days ago #

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I think the site has a great potential...I just hope Cuil will solve this problems soon..^^

from semscholar 339 days ago #

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Thanks Barry and thanks Cuil. That's just what this industry needs, a good laugh. Especially Dave N's result. This has got to be a cruil joke.

from dbascom 339 days ago #

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These are way too funny. They had to have done this on purpose to get the SEO community talking. What are the chances of pulling up so many hilarious photos for SEO peeps? Cuil may not be any good for searching, but at least it's good for a few laughs.

from slygrrr 339 days ago #

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That's Cuil, (pronounced sil-ee or silly), Like "Cui bono," Latin for "To whom (is it) a benefit?"

from oldschool 339 days ago #

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Not impressed. My search for adoption agencies turned up "viagra" on the first page of results.

from asnider 338 days ago #

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I noticed this, too. I did my own vanity search and the link to my blog had a picture of, well, I have no idea who it was, beside it. Overall, I am not very impressed with Cuil so far.

from rodonnell 334 days ago #

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I did the company search as well...first of all our site wasn't indexed...and next to all the results for our company's profile on other sites and press releases, like everyone else, was a picture of someone who I have never seen before in my life

unfortunately it wasn't someone "cuil" like a nascar driver or a farmer