My Cuil Listings Aren’t That Cool

Last week Cuil, the new search engine that’s supposed to give Google a run for its money, launched.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to test it — but knew in a matter of a few hours that it wasn’t doing well in the blogosphere since Dan Lyons‘ (aka Fake Steve Jobs) commentators never seem to miss a beat about what’s going down.

Today, Julie Batten of the Click Z Network, wrote a terrific article about “Why the End is No Where in Sight for Google.” I agree with everything she said, especially the fact that Google is so entrenched in our daily lives that we don’t “search” online for something, we Google it.

(I find it a sad fact of life that neither I nor my son can live without Google. He spent most of Sunday evening downloading info about Weird Al Yankovic and listening to his parodies such as “White and Nerdy” and “eBay” on YouTube.)

So, I finally had a few minutes today to mosey on over to Cuil and give it a brief test run.

Typed in my name — Dianna Huff — and got lots of old stuff. The link to my Website (DH Communications) is the third listing across the top. The listing for this blog, which is #1 at Google, didn’t appear in the first page results.

So I typed in “dh communications.” My site is listed in the top row, middle position, but why is there a link to “austin cc” in my listing? I don’t get it.

I like my listing in Google better.

Hopefully Cuil will improve with time. In the meantime, I’ll stick with Google.