One to Watch?
Posted by: Bob Dunlap, Director of Marketing
Virtually all mature markets have at least two strong, if not dominant, competitors. Right now, Internet search has only one, named Google. While Google is clearly the 800lb gorilla, competitors like Yahoo and MSN are always working on their algorithms, tools, and partnerships in an effort to take some of Google’s market share.
Now, Google may have yet another competitor. Former employees of the Mountain View, CA firm have launched Cuil (pronounced “cool”), a new search portal. They say it delivers more relevant results than any other search engine (yeah, I know, we’ve heard that before…). Will it be as good as or better than Google? Will it deliver the results that surfers and affiliate marketers are looking for? It’s way too early to tell.
Putting a dent in Google’s search dominance has proven to be a very tall task. Is this finally the one to watch? We’ll all stay tuned to see if “cool” lives up to its name.
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Michael said,
August 17, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
I have just finished reading your post, “One To Watch?”. I doubt “Cuil” will ever be able to beat Google unless they consider a major name change. Nobody wants to search for the name of a search engine before searching the name of a search engine.