"Cuil" The new search engine baby is sending me traffic!

[Shrinivas]

Cuil the newly born search engine is already sending me some traffic. So far what I have observed is that if you have exact keywords in <title> tag then you may find your website on the first page of cuil's SERP's. I also noticed that they are neglecting <description> tags. Please check your positions there.

Secondly if you are ranking on first or second page of Google then you will most probably be ranking on the first page of cuil's SERP's.

Check your webstats and good luck..

[Scott Ames]

Interesting. I typed my domian in Cuil and the search still couldn't find my site. Maybe they will get better. It seems to me if someone types in a domain name that should be first in the list of results.

[Sleaklight]

I am getting traffic from cuil as well and some of those have turned into purchasers. More than google. I like Cuil

[Neil S]

How are you guys getting indexted from Cuil? Did you submit to them?

[mrmcd]

How popular is this search engine? I have not heard of them!

[ketyung]

It was just launched at the end of July. By an ex-Google scientist and a team with great resume. But many say the launch was a failure and buggy Look I search for "USB magic jack", usb magic jack - Cuil
one of the top results even shows me to a page with 404, page NOT found!

[mrmcd]

Originally Posted by ketyung

It was just launched at the end of July. By an ex-Google scientist and a team with great resume. But many say the launch was a failure and buggy Look I search for "USB magic jack", usb magic jack - Cuil
one of the top results even shows me to a page with 404, page NOT found!

Thanks for the info, yes, sounds like a flop, otherwise I guess I would have heard about it!

[h1dayah]

Originally Posted by Scott Ames

Interesting. I typed my domian in Cuil and the search still couldn't find my site. Maybe they will get better. It seems to me if someone types in a domain name that should be first in the list of results.

Hello i dont know about cuil,but recently i type my domain name.it is a list of 98 result of page contain my link in several classified and some blog.what is mean........please reply.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Here is an article on Time that was written shortly after the launch of Cuil (article dated July 28, 2008 to be exact). The article is short and it seems to cover most of the major issues.

Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google - TIME

I have put Cuil on my list to look at as an interesting source of traffic, but I have not yet gotten around to finding out how to find out the following:

1. Profile of Cuil user.
2. System for detecting search traffic numbers.
3. How to register a site in the Cuil directory.

Something else to do, but it could mean more money if Cuil has a lot of users...

Michael

[h1dayah]

Originally Posted by Neil S

How are you guys getting indexted from Cuil? Did you submit to them?

Hello

it is my first time also found this search engine.when i put my domain are there 98 page of result.amazing.........but most are my link through my classified and blog.so am done submit some email to them.
If you want to submit aswell just go to Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine and click for webmaster info on the bottom og the page.There you go to fill some form to email them.

thanks.

[dburk]

For those of you considering investing your resources in this new search engine, I thought you might want to look at how it compares to it's peers. If you look near the bottom right hand corner you will see it's blue line.


It got lot of press when it was launched, I wonder if they can retain users.

Does anyone here use it on a regular basis?

[h1dayah]

Originally Posted by dburk

For those of you considering investing your resources in this new search engine, I thought you might want to look at how it compares to it's peers. If you look near the bottom right hand corner you will see it's blue line.


It got lot of press when it was launched, I wonder if they can retain users.

Does anyone here use it on a regular basis?

This according to alexa
cuil.com - Traffic Details from Alexa

and this is from dnscoop.
dnScoop - Domain Name Value, History, Stats Tool and Forums

[Dan Grossman]

Cuil's not ready. They built the index but their ranking algorithms are nowhere near refined enough to go mainstream. They have to have known that.

Which means the PR blitz was to serve a different purpose: to attract enough users to prove the technology works and scales, and to get on the radar of everyone that watches technology startups.

They have already raised $33 million to develop as far as they have, but they'll definitely need more than that for the resources and time they need to build out and work on this for another year or two minimum to get a usable product. The coverage they got on launch will get the rest of the venture capital investing community to the table to make that happen.

PR dollars well spent I'd say.

[dburk]

Hi Dan,

That's exactly my take.

I believe they need to focus on usability as well as SERPs. I have tried it and find it that it seems to work best when you use 3 columns and hit the F11 key to make it more scannable.

I have began to notice little things that are nice about it. Like how it groups related SERPs into tabs. You just don't notice this stuff until you start using it.

[ketyung]

The traffic according to alexa shows a dramatic drop after end of July... It was because press or they dumped lots of money for making press

[dburk]

Hi ketyung,

I wouldn't put too much confidence in Alexa's data.

I think much of Cuil's initial traffic came from people who own websites, just checking to see if their site was listed.

These folks are the only ones likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed, which is where much of Alexa's data comes from and why it is so skewed.

I find that Compete and especially Quantcast tend to have much more accurate numbers than Alexa.