Last night, Cuil (pronounced "cool") launched and every article out there compared the new search engine to Google. Just scan the Techmeme headlines and see the coverage for yourself. Of course, Danny Sullivan does an excellent job going through the important aspects of the search engine.
Cuil should be taken seriously, if you need to know why, read the articles above.
But let's take a look at what SEOs have to say. We have threads at DigitalPoint Forums, WebmasterWorld, Sphinn and Matt Cutts of Google has a pretty comment heavy discussion going on at his FriendFeed.
The comments in Matt's FriendFeed all suggest that Cuil is a poor search engine with little relevance and technical issues. Yes, Cuil had some server issues last night but they seem to be corrected as of this morning. The WebmasterWorld thread has much of the same reaction, but does take notice to the impressive nature of the management team, the new search interface and the size of the index. Overall, it seems as if SEOs are not all that impressed with the current results, but many do believe Cuil does have a shot.
I personally liked this comment at WebmasterWorld:
When Brett makes a dedicated forum for them, I would like to be the mod. ;)
Webmasters, Cuil has a webmaster section at cuil.com/info/webmaster_info/. They have a robot named twiceler, yes, the user agent is twiceler. They crawl from the IP addresses of 38.99.13.121, 38.99.44.101, 64.1.215.166, 208.36.144.6, 38.99.13.122, 38.99.44.102, 64.1.215.162, 208.36.144.7, 38.99.13.123, 38.99.44.103, 64.1.215.163, 208.36.144.8, 38.99.13.124, 38.99.44.104, 64.1.215.164, 208.36.144.9, 38.99.13.125, 38.99.44.105, 64.1.215.165, 208.36.144.10, 38.99.13.126, and 38.99.44.106.
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums, WebmasterWorld, Sphinn and FriendFeed.
