CNET reviewed my book - an unexpected find
I never thought to go looking for this, but playing with www.cuil.com’s rather slick SERP pages (and, I’ll admit, my own name - hey, anyone can return RELEVANT results; try getting it right on weird searches like that 
), and saqw the CNET reviewed my book. 
They seem to have liked it, as did the few who left comments.
Amazing the way data, information and commentary spreads on the web, then is later unearthed. I can barely remember the hardship search was in the days before *gasp*, Google et al. Back then you actually had to know what you were looking for - by name - in order to find it. There was no sense in searching really, as you could as easily navigate directly to a website. The trick was how to learn of new doamins, because this was all before every domain name and permutation was snapped up and accessible with “something” on it when you went there.
Ah, the good old days when SEO meant stuffing title and keyword tags chock full of as many keywords as possible - related or not, the traffic was your for the taking. I guess everyone was a spammer back then, but some of us drifted away from that logic as the engines massaged their algorithms. Still, fun to remember.
Now, since www.cuil.com came up, here’s my impressions:
1 - relevancy needs some work - results in G’s first page of results are, in some cases, not showing in Cuil’s. Not saying it’s “wrong” per se, but if G is the current benchmark for relvancy, there’s room for improvement, IMO. Hardly scientific testing here, though, as my opinion is based on about 25 side by side searches between the two engines…all very esoteric; not mainstream stuff.
2 - page layout - I love it - love how they have a clean interface (soon to be monetized I’m sure), love how they let you select 2 or 3 column layouts and love the thumbnails with each result
Naturally, the responses today form the site are spotty, but given they just went live, and are likely the talk of every news source from the aforementioned CNET to the Podunk Times, you really can’t blame their servers for dropping some calls.
