Cuil is Cool, but Wolfram Alpha is Intuitive
May 5th, 2009
Cuil results for my name "andy forsberg"
Cuil is Cool
- Cuil’s interface is cool & sexy.
- My blog is ranked #2 for my own name, rather than #6 in Google.
- Ad Free (so far).
- More thorough description of each web site w/ screenshots, rather than just first 155 characters like in Google and most other search engines.
- Supposedly searches 3x as many pages on the web as Google. Interestingly enough Cuil shows 9,149 results for my own name and Google shows 173,000. Cuil may only show more relevant results however.
- The text renders like any web page when you view it in Safari and/or Chrome, but does so even while you’re in FireFox and that is a beautiful thing.
- Switching between results pages is far faster than the popular search engines.
- Tabbed search results for popular search terms like my last name only “forsberg” = sweeet. Between me, the popular race car driver, and the guy from Brown, we still haven’t made the list unfortunately =(
- Timelines for popular people like “peter forsberg”
- Relevant category searches
Wolfram Alpha is Intuitive
- Launches sometime this month
- Hoping it doesn’t become subscription-based and will remain free
- A whole new species of search, even makes Google look immature
- Searching for “uncle’s uncle’s brother’s son” results in this:
Results of a search for “uncle’s uncle’s brother’s son”
- Searching for “bob” results in this:
Searching for "bob" results in this
- ReadWriteWeb did a full story on it, check out more about Wolfram|Alpha here.
