Cuil is not so Cool

As a lot of people know a new search engine arrived this week named, Cuil. I decided to go see what it is all about. This is from their website:

Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not just part of it—and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results.

Relevant not so much. Let me explain.

When you search on Cuil it returns a page that is three columns and some of these results have thumbnail images with them. See photo to right.

If you view the full size of that image the result at the bottom in the middle column has incorrect info. That image is from a site I did. It does not exist anywhere on the site it shows. The site that image belongs to is not listed on that page anywhere. It would be nice if you click on that image it gave you the site it came from, but that is not the case. When you view the source of the image it gives you this: http://www.cuilimg.com/imgsrv?i=020112:1343055842847354.

I am not a fan of this at all. When you view the search page it looks like that image is credited to that site. Then no one will ever know the source of the image since it is being pulled from the Cuil Image server. These are not practices of a search engine I want to use.

Relevant results, I think not Cuil!