Cuil: Where are the Widgets?

July 28th, 2008 by Avatar X Leave a reply »

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So, the hugely delayed and anticipated Alternative Search engine has lanched. and there are now Widgets?. Bummer. hope they add them soon. i also hope they fix the bunch of hole the search got.

I looked for Widgets Lab and if i search it like it don`t gives you a result. if you search MySpace Widgets (Widgets Lab is the first to third result in the first page in Google) you also find “anything”

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I then searched for “widgets” and was surprised to see Widgets Lab suggested as a result in the search form and that the blog appeared in the first page. so for being so new, they are not so bad.. :P

Lets see if they add widgets soon.

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2 comments

  1. Siddharth says:

    Cuil got much more popularity than it deserved
    it has nothing special in it than it claims
    just search for anything odd and u get No Result found

    IT is nothing infront of google

  2. Avatar says:

    @Siddharth: they got several factors in their favor:

    1.-incredible PR management (it is a very important factor)
    2.-good design
    3.-pedigree (they got key ex-googlers)
    4.-Funding
    5.-they are well connected

    that alone puts them over most of the rest for a fighting chance. even if the end product may not be as good. i think they want Microsoft or even AOL or ASK to acquire them but the thing is how much they want? they cannot be worth more than powerset ($100m) so unless they take that or below i don`t see them getting acquired fast. but hey who knows how fast their algorithm and search can evolve.. maybe it does well and in a year they can aim for well beyond $100m. one can never know.

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