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The site seems to throw a "we didn't find any results" page if it has problems - I'm pretty sure it has at least one page indexed with the word "Iceland" in it..
Anyway, with a search site, brand name and usability are much more important than total indexed paged (as long as a sufficient amount of pages have been indexed). Most users do not go past the first page of results.
Cuil obviously has no brand name yet, and I don't like the presentation - have columns is interesting, but since the results are not lined up horizontally, it makes it difficult to get a good view of the result on the first look. Too much eye movement is required.
The explore by category box is interesting but it helps you broaden out your search instead of narrowing it down. So I don't think that's particularly useful.
So I'm impressed at this point. We'll see how it evolves.
Oh, and crawling aggressively and ignoring robots.txt files is just rude.
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