I tried it out earlier today. I'm not sure about the presentation of data; the 3 columns is kind of nice, but then requiring scrolling as well kind of defeats the usefulness of columns.
Also, I tried a search on something that I don't get a lot of hits for on other sites: "Perfect Thyroid", a ska-funk band I used to like that isn't together anymore. I was impressed that the auto-guess algorithm found the band name, but I was confused that it gave me zero results on a term that it knew.
Hearing Halx's report, I'm much less inclined to give them any more of my time. No, wait, I just Googled for "cuil robot.txt"* and found that they claim to respect robot.txt, and further that...
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Occasionally, we have seen other Web crawling robots masquerading as Twiceler. You can be sure it’s Cuil crawling your site if the robot has one of the following IP addresses:
38.99.13.121 38.99.44.101 64.1.215.166 208.36.144.6
38.99.13.122 38.99.44.102 64.1.215.162 208.36.144.7
38.99.13.123 38.99.44.103 64.1.215.163 208.36.144.8
38.99.13.124 38.99.44.104 64.1.215.164 208.36.144.9
38.99.13.125 38.99.44.105 64.1.215.165 208.36.144.10
38.99.13.126 38.99.44.106
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Truth or a cover story? Or a botnet trying to damage the reputation of Cuil? I don't know.
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*Yes, I appreciate the irony of this statement.