As for the criticisms of the Google people and their minions in the technology “press” bashing Cuil, I say stuff it… because I search information on the web for a living, spending 6 or more hours a day in search activities and engines. There is plenty of room for Cuil. Okay so it’s overwhelmed on Day 1- guess that means a lot of people are looking for alts to Google. Do any of the ADHD users out in c-space remember what Google’s opening day was like? They were overwhelmed, just like Cuil and did not spring forth as a little homunculus of applications.

The Cuil display is more like a blog . newspaper. Set to 2 columns and you will chunk at great speed- far faster than with Google. There is much more to see. Whether 4 billion or 4 million pages, any astute user will tell you it “isn’t about size” but which pages and how they are used. The info architiects I spoke with today all like Cuil on first blush and like all of us will be checking it out in detail.

Search is my bread and butter and Cuil, Alta Vista, Zaba, Ask, Vivisimo (Clusty), Google and others all have a place in the information stew. Each has prose and cons… so I say Cuil it and allow them to roll out and grow. Remember Windows 3.1 or IE 4.0 (I use Opera whenever possible)? They got better. Cuil are gonna get better, have a great brain trust and a point of view other than posting popularity for ad revenue. Cuil is kewul.

I agree that voice search would be great. As would simply segregating commercial results, squatter results and relevant results.