Comments on: Too Cuil for Scuil

By: Eva White

Eva White — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:49:57 +0000

Why are people beating themselves into a frenzy over the knol? I dont get it.

By: hanen

hanen — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:54:19 +0000

I just checked it out and its terrible my site in number 2 on page one in google i couldn;t even find it it that search. Ill stick with google

By: Dax Brady Sheehan

Dax Brady Sheehan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:51:52 +0000

Have to agree with the above ^ Matt. The design is spot on... home page. The delivery of the results I think need a little more sculpting. 3 column is a little rough, two column... not too bad. @ fern... non relative results on Cuil I explained it a bit on my blog Cuil perfecting not cuil

By: Manuel

Manuel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:09:26 +0000

I tried it yesterday and hated it. I just do not like the layout at all.

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:10:26 +0000

been learing a little about .cuil whislt on this digi marketing course but its obvious from what they have there is many floors, too many deep links and no where near the ease of use of google (or even any of the other major players). love the homepage its simple as. but where is advanced search?! good luck to them, thats all i can say

By: Fern

Fern — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:13:59 +0000

Ghey, searching for Not Nigella brings up everything I could have ever wanted to know about Ms Lawson, whereas I’m number one on google. Searching “Craft Blog” CB doesn’t even show up on the first five pages.

“the biggest referrer to this blog from google is “The Gospel According To Rhys” with 1000 people each week!”

Why is that do you think? My biggest search is “Not Nigella” and “Not Nigella Tutorials” and I can’t for the life of me work out why the .com bit is so hard to remember?

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:34:42 +0000

Shouldn’t really….

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:02:06 +0000

PS – your site require JS to post?

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:01:44 +0000

The homepage design is very nice, spot on in fact.

The idea of contextual ranking is great.

The search results page design is flawed, badly. If you’re going to have multi-column, then do not have a scroll. Missing the bottom row of each column is stupid. Because the results are not aligned in a grid you can’t scan horizontally either. You end up having to scroll the page three times just to read all the results. FAIL, as they say.

The results themselves seem to pull up a disproportionate number of deep-pages instead of offering the domain results first. Being a narcissist I googled my name. My homepage was nowhere to be found, but there was a page full of ancient comments left by me on other websites. My site’s #1 in Google. I then searched for my name and “css” – not one result. Pathetic.