The piece is all "he said, she said", by outsiders. Not much info on what's going on inside, or current results. So I bravely typed cuil.com (no link, either),

The piece is all "he said, she said", by outsiders. Not much info on what's going on inside, or current results. So I bravely typed cuil.com (no link, either), and checked it out (and I alone have escaped to tell thee ;-). Not bad. I tried today's pet search ('Schopenhauer ladder', since you ask), and the first page results are different but not much worse than Google's in quality. Cuil does have a splog at #3. Fewer pages listed (370 vs. 18000), but that may not be worth much. Other observations: no page cache, means no word highlighting to help find the target in bigger pages. No ads in sight ("Hi, Adsense? I'd like to enroll my site ..."). The design is a little overdone; maybe some will find the 99% black front page, combined with modern glossy screens, helpful as a mirror for the soul (or just a mirror).