I just read elly’s latest post about how the new search engine Cuil, is a little “wrong in the head” when it comes to ordering search results. So I decided to give it a shot myself, just to see what it’s like for me.

Google

1. Site home page. As expected
2. My profile on MyGamerCard.net
3. My 360voice blog
4. My Rooster Teeth profile
5. My Twitter
6. My Bebo
7. My Wikipedia user page
8. My Windows Live Space
9. My YouTube channel
10. My WordPress.com tag? – WTF?

OK, the results are quite good, most of the hits are sites that I use regularly, or are updated regularly – only #4, #8 I really don’t use anymore, and #10 really shouldn’t be there.

Cuil

This is where things get a little odd… Since I’m also not sure what order of impotance the results on Cuil are because of the layout, I’ve set the results for 2 colums, and am listing the left-hand column first.

1. A non-existent article about me on the Halo 3 part of Halowiki – WTFH?
2. Site homepage
3. My Twitter
4. My blog’s archive for July 9th, 2007?
5. My blog’s archive for the “cod4″ tag??
6. My Blogger’s Choice Awards profile
7. My user page for the Halo 2 part of Halowiki???
8. My user talk page for the Halo 2 part of Halowiki?????
9. My blog’s archive for February 2008???????
10. My blog’s archive for the “games-soc” tag????????
11. My blog’s archive for the “ebay” tag??????????

OK, this is officially fucked up… Let’s go see where some of the better ranked results on Google show up on Cuil…

• MGC profile – Not in the top 100
• 360voice blog – Not in the top 100
• Bebo – Not in the top 100
• Wikipedia User page – 53rd… not wait, that’s a Wikipedia mirror site!
• YouTube channel – Not in the top 100

So as you can see, Cuil obviously has some issues with the ranking of results, if some of the best results from Google don’t even show in the first 10 pages!

I think I’ll be sticking with Google until they can get this mess sorted out…