Traffic Flow SEO

Just when I thought that Cuil was all but dead, they decided to go and try and reinvent themselves. While I love competition in the search space, especially with the Yahoo/Bing search merger I just cannot for the life of me figure out how Cuil manages to still hang on while great concepts like the now defunct, SearchMe search engine have to die.

So, Cuil has added a couple of new things. First they have added real-time results within their results. While this is interesting, I am not sure why it really matters as others are already doing it much better. Also, they have started to run Google ads (amazingly without the 'Ads by Google' wording next to them) at the bottom of the search results.

Basically, it always seems like Cuil half tries everything it does. It claims to have the largest database index (bigger than Google), yet it can't seem to find easily indexed sites. It claims to provide better results, but hell look at any search result and if you can tell me where they grab most of those images and why are they relevant you will win a prize (not really, but you will have fixed their engine). And now they finally try to create a revenue model? Well, they would be hard pressed based on their traffic volumes and where the ads are placed to even generate a $1,000 a day in ad revenue.

So, the question is, why do it if you are not going to do it right? That can be said for everything they do. Everything seems half baked and not well thought out.

That brings me to my final rant about Cuil (for today). If you are going to release new features why not even post information about them on your own blogs? For that matter why not just update them at all as the last posts were over 2 months ago. Seems their blogs (main and Tom's) are as dead as their engine should be.....:-)