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All the tech blogs are aflame with news of Cuil’s launch (pronounced cool), so I thought I would give the new search engine a try.  Cuil’s brick wall immediately becomes apparent before I ever even hit the site.  Instinctively, I tabbed over to my google search bar embedded in FireFox and typed in ‘cuil.’

That’s right - I’m a url searcher (someone who knows the url for a given site but still types it into a google search bar), and by all accounts I’m not alone.  So, I’m an engaged user actively looking to try out a new search engine and I am typing that search engine’s name into google?  I don’t envy the position Cuil is in.

On a more optimistic note, I really like Cuil’s interface.  It’s refreshing and new, which seems to stimulate the brain, and their categorization of searches really helps.  I’ll definitely use it more if I think about it, but again I search instinctively and right now that means I use the google search box in firefox.