a "cuil" new search engine

Evidently a few ex-Googlers launched a new, competing search engine this morning called "Cuil", pronounced "cool". They claim a web page index that they estimate at three times the size of Google's. Needless to say, I was curious. I went to www.cuil.com to have a look. Frankly, I was disappointed to the point of complete skepticism after two inputs.

To arrive at Cuil in the first place, I Googled it. (Thankfully, the universe did not implode due to my pathologically recursive search engine use.) The first hit for "cuil" was the new search engine site. Google also helpfully brought up a couple news stories for my perusal, about the launch of the new site. Basically, Google brought me exactly what I was looking for. So when I arrived at Cuil, and was faced with a blank text box and no ideas on what to search for, I tried searching Cuil for itself. Only thing is, I didn't get any hits remotely related to the search engine...instead I got a bunch of travel website hits. Evidently Cuil is a location in Scotland or somewhere around there. Sure the site layout at Cuil is, well, cool--it's listed in sort of magazine/newspaper column fashion as opposed to one straight list down the page--but the content was pretty useless to me.

For my next input--I was pretty excited about this one--I tried searching for myself, wondering if my rank on the list of Cuil hits would be better or worse than my place on Google. Only thing is...my input came back with NO hits!! Really, three times the web page index of Google, and they didn't pull a single page for me or any of my many google rivals? This is when I cried "foul!" and decided I'd better get back to coding, as my program just finished reloading...


UPDATE: I checked the site again later in the day, and many inputs that were not working in the morning were then returning hits. Seems like maybe they had some kinks in the morning they had to work out.