Affiliate Marketing blog by James Little

Share options paying out and VC’s squandering money has led to the release of a new search engine, cuil (pronounced cool), created by bunch of ex-google employees.

If you’re reading this blog then it’s pretty likely that you already know this, so I won’t go into too much information about it but if you want to read more than I suggest looking here, here or here.

My first impressions of cuil were all good.  I liked the retro looking black and blue branding and I really, really liked the layout after you make a search; though that may well be more a case of it just being different.

I was impressed with the initial relevancy and the amount of sites indexed but then I started to notice a few things.

Here’s a screenshot from a search on AffiliateFuture.  It’s great that it ranks in the first couple of positions but where on earth do they get their image results for?  An Affiliate Window image under our search results doesn’t inspire me with confidence.

You’ll also see that if a space in (Affiliate Future) the main AF site does not appear on the homepage.  Oddly my blog does but again with a completely random image!

So overall – I like the look and feel and for a startup that has just launched it has a lot of potential but there is a fair way to go yet.

I’ll just post the video here – words don’t really do it any justice.

Enjoy.