after taking a look at Cuil i dismissed them as no threat to my own companies effort at Search.
Not only can't they return anywhere close to our results (but then even google has trouble there)but like almost all search engines (except ours) they do not keep visitors on site for any length of time.
We discovered long ago that the real trick in running a search engine is the ability to retain your users on the results pages while still allowing them easy access to the information/sites they are seeking.
This is one reason why our New engine which is only 4 months old has climbed to PR 5 on the main index and PR 4 on the TLD search index, obtained without any trickery or fancy SEO Footwork.
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after taking a look at Cuil i dismissed them as no threat to my own companies effort at Search. Not only can't they return anywhere close to our results (but then even google has trouble there)but like almost all search engines (except ours) they do not keep visitors on site for any length of time. We discovered long ago that the real trick in running a search engine is the ability to retain your users on the results pages while still allowing them easy access to the information/sites they are seeking. This is one reason why our New engine which is only 4 months old has climbed to PR 5 on the main index and PR 4 on the TLD search index, obtained without any trickery or fancy SEO Footwork.