[Web4lib] CUIL doesn't seem very COOL

[Brian Gray]

I think the people that may like Cuil's results page, if their index
improves, will be the people that uses portals everyday. Some people
really like that type of display.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com



On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I don't like the CUIL displays at all.
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> It's almost like CUIL's business model is: If we make our site look as little like Google as possible, people will think we're "cool". Here's another obvious example of the "not Google" approach. Google's homepage is mostly white space. CUIL's homepage is, you guessed it, mostly BLACK space. Maybe they're trying to be the anti-Google?
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> Someone called the Gogle display "primitive". I think Google's displays are effective. I agree 100% with Thomas Dowling on this one. Like Thomas said, there's a reason why Google looks like it does. It works for a lot of people (myself included).