Seeing that pretty much every tech blog has written about how crappy the new search engine cuil.com is, I figured I’d give it a try and see for myself.

It’s crappy.

Searching for “nosugrefneb” doesn’t turn up anything remotely related to this site anywhere within the top 11 hits. In fact, nosugrefneb.com/weblog, entitled “/weblog &” according to Cuil, is the last listing on the 4th page—#44—alongside this nifty little image representing my weblog:

Cuil confirms my obvious love of cigarettes.

In fact, a search for “nosugrefneb.com”—something I could find fairly easily myself with very little need for a search engine—shows the actual nosugrefneb.com as the #2 listing, and searching for “nosugrefneb.com/weblog” finally pulls this site up on page 4 of the listings, not with a link to the front page of the site but with one to a post I wrote almost two years ago. The associated image is even more random than cigarettes.

On the other hand, Google lists nosugrefneb.com/weblog—this very site!—and nosugrefneb.com as the top two hits in a search for “nosugrefneb,” which is refreshing because, if you look very closely, you’ll see that my search term is in there. And also they don’t think I look like two days’ worth of cigarettes. Nice touch, Google.

This is probably the worst search engine I have ever used. Suffice it to say that they have a bit of work to do.