This is definitely a neat little search engine. I don't think it'll match Google, based on the simple fact that Google is less complicated - and that's what keeps 90% of people that find you. The big bulky look doesn't help, nor does the dark color scheme. Most people tend to like brighter color schemes.
With that said, this search engine is pretty neat. The fact that it takes your original search and generates a bunch of "related category" tabs is really nice. I'll probably use this engine a lot when I'm looking for things information on things that I'm less knowledgable about. The keywords might help someone more accurately find what they are looking for. The engine is running very nicely here, also. Don't see any slowing down.
Overall, I'll definitely be putting it in my bookmarks... But Google stays on my homepage.
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Originally Posted by Halx
Cuil's search robot ignores robots.txt and spiders at an unrestrained pace. The result is that is causes websites to crash and indexes content that its not supposed to. Its brought down a couple of our (my work's) sites so far. We had to block its range of IPs. What a pain in the ass.
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Not to come off as offensive, but that seems more your fault than Cuil's fault. Robots.txt is silly, anyway. Your server should be able to handle anything their crawler can do :P
Blocking yourself from an entire search engine is a good way to lose users... Albeit, probably not many.