Search engine draws fanfare, testers prefer Google

Google, we've all gotten used to trying a slightly different search to get the refined results we need," Arrington added. "Cuil does a good job of guessing what we'll want next and presents that in the top right widget. That means Cuil saves time for more research based queries."

Stan Schroeder, a blogger at Mashable, also tested the quality of Cuil for multiple searches compared to Google, where he found the newcomer lacking.

"The more I tried, the more I was convinced that Google is, quite simply, a vastly better search engine," he noted. "This is unfair, I know: Cuil is a very new product, and Google has been around for quite a while. No one can create a better search engine than Google, simply because Google does not only search websites, but - through its domination of the market - the entire Web bends to Google's will because every Web site wants to be positioned well on Google."