Fucked-up web-design: cuil.com
You can tell that cuil sucks just by looking at its home page. There are so many wrong things about it.
1. It’s black. I think a black background for a search engine is horribly wrong. Search is about bringing things to light, not the opposite.
2. The search box is in the lower half of the screen.
3. cuil, the name. Are you serious?
4. Why do I care about how many pages you search? I don’t know how many are out there. Plus, I want to search them all anyway. I just want meaningful results. Which cuil don’t bring.
5. Fuck, the search box is not even centered.
6. The overall impression is that they want to look cool, not actually solve problems.
7. I don’t know why, but I can’t even think about my search in such a home page… my mind just goes into a halt.
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that’s actually a quite good search engine. I searched “how to prepare pesto” ( http://www.cuil.com/search?q=how%20to%20prepare%20pesto&sl=long ). the first link is “Homemade cilantro pesto recipe”. LOL!
Comment by mazapegul — @ 20080807 2221 Thursday
given the fact that you hate cilantro… I take that as a “it didn’t work” LOL
So your sample search is actually a pretty good example of how horrible Cuil is in both its design and implementation; here is the result page screenshot:
Note the cluttered UI, the irrelevant images, and above all the incorrect results: even ignoring the amusing “TopList” in the very center (ROTFL!) only one result actually leads to a pesto recipe (albeit with cilantro, an herb never used in Italian cooking
). All the others are totally useless results, including at least 3 pages which didn’t even contain the word “pesto”, and 2 links to spam pages!!
How can they release this SHIT?!?!
Comment by ep — @ 20080808 0035 Friday
This write up made my day a little better. lol…
Comment by JP — @ 20080808 1335 Friday