In short: No. When it comes to online searching quality still beats quantity.

“The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.

Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. We believe that analyzing the Web rather than our users is a more useful approach, so we don’t collect data about you and your habits, lest we are tempted to peek. With Cuil, your search history is always private.

Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil.”¹

This new search engine claims to have indexed 121.617.892.992 web pages but forgot to make them search able. For example, when searching for 6 Angry Men or “6 Angry Men” Google gives us this. Cuil on the other hand only shows us useless links with wrong pictures next to it.

Are there more disadvantages? Yes there are. Personally the column view does not help the readability and is in my opinion just a way to diversify themselves from Google. On top of that Cuil shows more than two lines of text nobody is going to read.

But isn’t there anything we can do about Google’s World Domination plans? Nope. The World Wide Web as we know it these days is useless without Google. It would be like a big room full of nice stuff but without any lights to find your way around. (Better metaphor suggestions are welcome). We can not live without internet anymore so we must succumb to Google and prepare ourselves for an age of worshiping the big G.

Back to Cuil.
Is there anything good about it? Nope, they even chose the wrong name for their service:

“Maybe Cuil’s founders tried to find an Irish dictionary using their site and couldn’t. Searching on Cuil.com for “Irish English dictionary” fails to turn up a link to such a dictionary in at least the first six pages of results.”²

Well at least you can make a nice word joke if you combine it with Timo’s surname, Timo Cuilder… :s

Or maybe Cuil and the Gang?

Not very Cuil indeed!

¹http://www.cuil.com/info/

²http://www.pcworld.com/article/149167/2008/07/.html?tk=rss_news