Everybody’s talking about the new “Google Killer” so i had to take a look. Initial impressions? Fast response (even from Asia), but the new magazine format of displaying search results eats up valuable screen real estate, and it can take time to scroll to what you want, even with the subject tabs.  This is especially if the algorithms haven’t had the time to be refined to the point where the most accurate results are always displayed first.

Cuil is also not location-sensitive, so it’s not aware of the user’s geographic location when returning results.  The high incidence of broken image links is jarring too, but that’s not necessarily Cuil’s fault.  Overall Cuil seems incredibly well-formed for a search engine just launching.