31
2008
Cuil Stats – The Early Numbers
I’ve received several requests for the latest stats on Cuil, the search engine that launched this week with impressive media hype. While I don’t have data on the size of Cuil’s index, which is the basis of their claim to be the “world’s biggest search engine,” I can share initial numbers on the new engine’s market share of visits in the U.S.
One of the advantages of our massive sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users, is that we can report on daily (versus weekly or monthly) market share percentages in a very timely manner. According to our daily rankings data for July 28th, 2008, Cuil premiered in position #106 of all Internet sites, and in position #10 for the Search Engines Category with 0.6% of visits to all search engines on Monday. While these opening day stats are impressive, on Tuesday, the site slipped to the #12 position amongst search engines and #197 for all sites.
Another interesting fact is that, on Monday Cuil received 34.6% of its traffic from search engines (25.7% came from Google) and 26.8% came from the News & Media category indicating that news coverage of the launch was successful in driving launch day traffic for the neophyte engine.
Stay tuned for more interesting stats…
Great idea, Bill.
Clearly lots of people tried Cuil. I suspect most were disappointed by the poor quality results.
If so, Cuil’s site rank should drop a lot from here. I’d be very interested to see if that’s what happens.
Cuil’s result may look snazzy, but it is certainly not easy to find results with the thumbnail layout, its a lot easier scan through the traditional 10 per page listings of existing engines..
It’ll be interesting to see how Cuil statistics are several weeks, even months out IF it lasts that long. I would like to see Cuil succeed but I also want to see them tweak their results big time.
I heard about the new launch on CNN Headline news first thing the day they launched and immediately went to check it out. Seems they had a lot of problems with even serving up content. Many times I received “no results” for very broad terms. They may have come from Google but they have a long way to go.