Cuil search engine launched with a lot of hype yesterday. Whether it was Yahoo! or AOL, there was a piece of news on Cuil. A lot of hype that Cuil has got is due to the fact that ex-google engineers are behind it. I personally had a chance to play with Cuil yesterday, and I did not see anything that made me excited about the future of search.

Whether its Google or Cuil, there are fundemantal flaws in current search engine algorithms that will not be fixed in the near future. You still get totally irrevalent results on your searches, and the search engine gamers still get to push their sites to the top of search engines. There are numerous other issues that Google or Cuil will simply not solve in the next couple of years.

Does this mean Cuil is doomed? Absolutely not. I like the design and how the information is presented. The results still need a little work, and it’s not perfect yet, but you can certainly add Cuil to the long list of search engines that want to be different!